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Multi-Sensor Fusion and Frequency-Domain Analysis for Predictive Maintenance of Industrial Induction Motors

Jul 2026 · International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies · pp. 2525-2530 · 0 citations · 12 references

Abstract

Unplanned failures of induction motors impose serious operational and financial penalties on industrial facilities, yet the fault signatures that precede such failures are detectable well in advance through careful sensor instrumentation and data-driven analysis. This paper presents an end-to-end Internet-of-Things (IoT) predictive maintenance scheme based on two off-the-shelf sensors: a DS18B20 one-wire digital thermometer and 2 piezo vibration sensor modules, with an ESP32 edge device for running the full machine learning pipeline offline, independent from any cloud services. Four operating scenarios are considered: healthy condition, BPFO (bearing outer race fault), misaligned shaft, and rotor imbalance. Based on 1-second sampling intervals, 17 descriptors are derived, including statistics in the time domain, Fourier harmonic peaks, energy ratios between different frequency bands, and temperature gradients measured across all sensors. A dual-stage feature selection method using mutual information (MI) score and Random Forest mean decrease impurity (MDI) ranking reduces the number of features to the 10 most relevant descriptors, reducing the computational complexity by 41% at the expense of 5.6% F1-macro. On a balanced 600-sample synthetic dataset, the resulting Random Forest classifier attains 87.3% hold-out accuracy, 91.0±1.9% five-fold cross-validation accuracy, and a macro area-under-the-ROC-curve of 0.980. End-to-end inference takes just 39 ms on the ESP32, easily meeting the 200 ms requirement for real-time alerting.

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