Petasense is an Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) startup that launched with $1.8 million in seed funding announced in 2017. The company provides monitoring solutions for industrial customers based on detecting changes in vibration sounds in machines with vibration sensor. Machine learning is used to gain an understanding of the normal behavior of the machine and reduce false positives and false negatives. Data is fed to a cloud, analysed and presented to users and can help them decide the best schedule maintenance.
As of 2017 Petasense planned to charge $399 or $599 for each sensor plus a subscription fee to access data and analytics.
Petasense has employees in San Jose, CA and Bangalore, India. The number of employees was 15 as of 2017. The programming and R&D is housed in Bangalore.
