Systems Comparison Table
Manual Inspection
Hybrid
Autonomous Monitoring
Hardware
UT Thickness Gauge
TRND
Wireless/Wired Node
Ultrasonic Transducer
Temperature Range
-55 to +380ºC
-55 to 350ºC
-55 to +380ºC
In-Service Operation
✓
✓
✓
Ex Certified
✓ Sensors, Zone 0
✓ Sensors, Zone 0
✓ Whole System, from Zero 0
Data Collection
UT Inspector
Manual or Drone
Wireless/Wired incl. WirelessHART, GSM, Modbus
Storage
Manual
Cloud
Cloud, server, local