Distribution & Fulfillment
Every Conveyor Drive Is a Single Point of Failure. We Watch All of Them.
Purpose-built for high-volume fulfillment. Instrument an entire conveyor fleet without a capital project, an IT team, or a specialist on site.
The Monitoring Challenge at Scale
Distribution and fulfillment centers face a maintenance problem that is different from most industrial environments: hundreds or thousands of individually simple assets running continuous, repetitive cycles. Each conveyor roller, sortation gearbox, or drive motor seems low-risk in isolation — but a single failure on a critical node can halt processing for an entire zone, directly impacting order throughput.
Traditional enterprise condition monitoring was never designed for this model. Per-sensor costs, deployment complexity, and ongoing management overhead made it impossible to justify instrumenting at scale. Most facilities defaulted to reactive replacement or time-based PM cycles — neither of which reflects actual machine condition.
Soralink changes the economics entirely. A single sensor installs in under five minutes with no tools. A 5-year battery means no maintenance overhead. The AI layer starts learning your machines from day one — no specialist required.
Sora Lite: Built for Scale
Sora Lite is the purpose-built solution for high-volume fulfillment environments. Its 5-year battery life and sub-5-minute installation make it viable to instrument entire fleets of conveyors, sortation drives, and fan motors without a dedicated technician team or capital project.
Battery Life
5 years
At hourly capture rate. Instrument-and-forget deployment across hundreds of assets.
Installation Time
< 5 min
Per sensor. No IT team, no specialist, no capital project required.
Downtime Reduction
Up to 80%
Reduction in unplanned downtime through continuous monitoring of high-volume rotating assets.
Assets Monitored in a Typical Fulfillment Center
Conveyor Belt Drive Motors
The most common single-point failure in a fulfillment line. Continuous monitoring catches bearing wear and imbalance before a motor seizure halts the entire zone.
Sortation System Gearboxes
High-cycle assets running continuous, repetitive loads. Gear tooth wear and lubrication degradation are detectable weeks before failure.
Induction Motors — Rollers, Merges, Diverters
Individually simple but collectively critical. A single seized roller motor at a merge point can cascade delays across downstream operations.
Cooling Fans and HVAC Units
Facility climate control running continuously. Fan blade imbalance and bearing wear are detectable early via vibration signature changes.
Pump Systems
Fire suppression and process water pumps. Low-cycle assets where a failure is both a production disruption and a safety concern.
What You Get From Day One
01
Human-Verified Alerts
Every AI-generated alert is reviewed by a Soralink expert before it reaches your team. Your technicians receive the issue, the affected component, and what to do — not a raw anomaly score. Sora Care eliminates alarm fatigue entirely.
02
3-Month Forecasting Horizon
Sora Insight runs dual-horizon forecasting: a 3-week window for sudden anomalies and a 3-month window for subtle trend deviations. Plan maintenance on your schedule — not in response to emergencies.
03
EAM System Integration
Sora Bridge connects via MQTT, AMQP, and direct cloud connectors to AWS IoT Core and Azure IoT Hub. Verified alerts flow directly into your existing work order and asset management systems.
Already Have Sensors? We Connect Them.
Migrating from Amazon Monitron
If your facility deployed Amazon Monitron sensors before the October 2024 discontinuation, Sora Bridge connects your existing hardware directly into the Soralink platform — no replacement, no reinstallation. Your sensors keep running. Your data keeps flowing. And from day one you gain what Monitron never offered: human-verified alerts and long-horizon forecasting.
See the migration guide →Monitron vs. Soralink
| Feature | Amazon Monitron | Soralink (Sora Lite + Sora Insight) |
|---|---|---|
| Sensor installation | < 5 min | < 5 min |
| Battery life | ~3 years | 5 years (hourly rate) |
| ML-based anomaly detection | ✓ | ✓ |
| Human-verified alert validation | ✗ | ✓ (Sora Care add-on) |
| Long-horizon forecasting (3 months) | ✗ | ✓ |
| EAM system integration | Limited (Infor, SAP, Maximo) | Via Sora Bridge (MQTT, AMQP, cloud connectors) |
| Continued availability | Discontinued Oct 2024 | Active — new customers welcome |
| Existing Monitron hardware reuse | N/A | ✓ via Sora Bridge |
Ready to instrument your facility?
Tell us how many assets you're running and where. We'll show you how quickly Soralink can be deployed across your entire operation.