A system associated with a sensing roll and a mating roll for collecting sensor signals comprising: the sensing roll and the mating roll located relative to one another to create a nip therebetween, wherein a web of material travels through the nip from an upstream direction to a downstream direction and a continuous band, arranged to travel around in a loop pattern, contacts at least a region of the web of material at the nip or upstream from the nip; a plurality of sensors located at axially spaced-apart locations of the sensing roll, wherein each sensor enters a region of the nip during each rotation of the sensing roll to generate a respective sensor signal; a structure for generating a periodically occurring starting reference associated with each rotation of the continuous band around the loop pattern; and a processor to receive the periodically occurring starting reference and the respective sensor signal generated by each sensor and, after receiving the respective sensor signal, the processor operates to: determine a particular one of the plurality of sensors which generated the respective sensor signal, and based upon an amount of time that has elapsed between when the respective sensor signal was generated and a most recent starting reference, identify one of a plurality of tracking segments associated with the continuous band, wherein each of the plurality of tracking segments is, respectively, associated with a different amount of elapsed time, and store the respective sensor signal to associate the respective sensor signal with the identified one tracking segment. the sensing roll and the mating roll located relative to one another to create a nip therebetween, wherein a web of material travels through the nip from an upstream direction to a downstream direction and a continuous band, arranged to travel around in a loop pattern, contacts at least a region of the web of material at the nip or upstream from the nip; a plurality of sensors located at axially spaced-apart locations of the sensing roll, wherein each sensor enters a region of the nip during each rotation of the sensing roll to generate a respective sensor signal; a structure for generating a periodically occurring starting reference associated with each rotation of the continuous band around the loop pattern; and a processor to receive the periodically occurring starting reference and the respective sensor signal generated by each sensor and, after receiving the respective sensor signal, the processor operates to: determine a particular one of the plurality of sensors which generated the respective sensor signal, and based upon an amount of time that has elapsed between when the respective sensor signal was generated and a most recent starting reference, identify one of a plurality of tracking segments associated with the continuous band, wherein each of the plurality of tracking segments is, respectively, associated with a different amount of elapsed time, and store the respective sensor signal to associate the respective sensor signal with the identified one tracking segment. determine a particular one of the plurality of sensors which generated the respective sensor signal, and based upon an amount of time that has elapsed between when the respective sensor signal was generated and a most recent starting reference, identify one of a plurality of tracking segments associated with the continuous band, wherein each of the plurality of tracking segments is, respectively, associated with a different amount of elapsed time, and store the respective sensor signal to associate the respective sensor signal with the identified one tracking segment. <EOS>