Features and specifications
AirFinity features and technical specifications
AirFinity shows what each air compressor in your plant is doing and how much energy it uses, every minute, on a web dashboard and a mobile app. This page explains, in plain words, how the readings get from the compressor to your phone, and lists the technical details your engineer or IT team will ask about.
The data path
How a reading gets from the compressor to your phone.
AirFinity is a retrofit: it reads the data your compressor already has, adds sensors where it doesn't, and never touches the machine's own control system. It is designed to work with most compressor brands: we read the controller where it supports Modbus, or fit sensors where it does not.
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Compressor
Your existing machines, most brands.
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RS-485 / sensors
Modbus RTU from the controller, or retrofit sensors.
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Edge gateway
Logs every minute. Buffers locally if the internet drops.
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Cloud
Firebase backend stores and syncs every reading.
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Dashboard + app
Live status, history and push alerts.
- 01 · The compressor
- AirFinity connects to the compressors you already run. The compressor's own control system is not modified, so it keeps starting, stopping and loading exactly as it does today.
- 02 · RS-485 and Modbus RTU, or sensors
- Many compressor controllers already measure pressure, temperature and run state. Where they do, AirFinity reads those values over RS-485 (a common industrial wiring standard: the cable the data travels on) using Modbus RTU (the data language most compressor controllers speak). Where a controller has no data connection, external sensors are fitted to the machine instead. Reading values the controller already measures avoids paying for duplicate sensors.
- 03 · The edge gateway
- An edge gateway is a small logging device installed on site, between your compressors and the internet. It asks each compressor for its readings every minute, stores them, and forwards them to the cloud. If the factory internet drops, it keeps logging and holds the readings locally (this is called buffering), then re-sends them when the connection returns.
- 04 · The cloud
- Readings are stored on a Firebase backend, Google's real-time cloud database service, so the dashboard and the app see the same data at the same time.
- 05 · Dashboard and app
- Your team sees live status and history on a web dashboard and the mobile app, and gets a push notification (a phone alert from the app) when a reading crosses a limit or behaves abnormally.
Internet down? Readings are kept on site.
The gateway keeps logging on site and re-sends the buffered readings when the connection returns, within the gateway's storage and as long as it has power. Live dashboard updates and alerts resume when the connection is back.
What it measures
Four readings per compressor, every minute.
One electricity meter for the whole plant can't tell you which compressor is using the power. AirFinity records these four values separately for every machine it is connected to.
In plain words
- Energy (kWh). The electricity each compressor uses. A kilowatt-hour (kWh) is the same unit your electricity bill charges for.
- Discharge pressure. The air pressure as it leaves the compressor, shown in bar.
- Temperature. A rising temperature is often an early sign that a compressor needs attention.
- Run state. Whether the compressor is loaded (making air), unloaded (motor still running but making no air) or stopped. Time spent unloaded is power spent making no air. What unloaded running and leaks cost.
AirFinity specifications
| Logging interval | 1 minute |
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| Machine interface | RS-485 / Modbus RTU, or sensor retrofit |
| Monitored variables | Energy (kWh), discharge pressure, temperature, run state |
| Run states | Load, unload, stopped |
| Compatibility | Any compressor brand; the machine's own control system is not modified |
| Edge gateway | On-site logging with local buffering during outages |
| Cloud backend | Firebase real-time infrastructure |
| Access | Web dashboard and mobile app |
| Alerting | Push notification on threshold and anomaly conditions |
| History and reports | Historical charts and exportable reports |
Related
- Proof in production. A Penang manufacturing plant connected six compressors in about two weeks and reported around 40% less unexpected downtime and 25% energy cost savings within three months. Read the case study.
- Maintenance scheduling. AirFinity watches the machine; Service Tracker schedules and records the service visits for each machine under contract.
- Background reading. How to connect old factory machines to the cloud and how to monitor air compressor energy consumption.
- Company page. AirFinity on the Avantix Innovation website.
Not sure what your compressors can report? We'll check.
- Free consultationA WhatsApp chat or call about your plant and what you want to see.
- Site surveyWe check each compressor's controller and wiring on site.
- Written scope + fixed quoteBefore any work starts. You decide.
- Install and go liveGateway, sensors, dashboard and app accounts for your team.