Abstract: Techniques for operating a sensor are provided. An example method according to these techniques includes sensing, at the sensor, changes in intensity of a magnetic field of a magnet affixed to a monitored asset to produce sensor data, wherein the monitored asset is disposed in a non-metallic liquid or solid medium, and wherein the sensor is disposed outside of the non-metallic medium; The method also includes analyzing, at the sensor, the sensor data to produce feature information indicative of vibration of the monitored asset. The method also includes providing the feature information to a predictive algorithm to generate prognosis information indicating an occurrence of a known condition of the monitored asset.

Abstract: Techniques for operating a remote monitoring system are provided. An example method according to these techniques includes sensing one or more characteristics associated with a monitored asset to produce sensor data, and dynamically configuring operating parameters of the monitoring system based at least in part on current operating conditions of the monitoring system. The example method also includes extracting features from the sensor data using the feature extraction component to produce extracted feature information, and selecting at least a subset of the extracted feature information using the feature extraction component to produce active feature information based at least in part on the current operating conditions of the monitoring system. The example method also includes sending, through a communications network, the active feature information to a server.