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The Tiny Sensors Trying to Put Factory Emergencies Out of Business
Waites has planted more than half a million sensors across six continents, listening for the faint mechanical clues that precede expensive failure. The clever part is not merely hearing the warning - it is turning that signal into a repair someone can actually make.
Groundup.ai
Groundup.ai is a Singapore-based industrial AI company that helps asset-heavy operators prevent unplanned machine downtime. It pairs proprietary, magnetic-mount IoT sensors - which capture vibration, temperature and sound - with an agentic AI platform called GINA to move maintenance from reactive firefighting to a predictive, self-monitoring discipline it brands as Cognitive Maintenance. Founded by serial entrepreneur Leon Lim, the company serves manufacturing, maritime, defense, oil & gas and infrastructure clients across Asia and the Middle East.
Augury
Augury is an industrial AI company that helps manufacturers hear what their machines are trying to say. By bolting IoT sensors onto pumps, motors and fans and feeding their vibration, temperature and magnetic data to machine-learning models, Augury predicts and prevents mechanical failures before they cause unplanned downtime. Founded in 2011 in Israel and now headquartered in New York, the company pioneered the 'Machine Health' category, expanded into 'Process Health' for production-line optimization, and serves 500+ manufacturers including PepsiCo, Colgate-Palmolive, Hershey, DuPont and Heineken. It reached unicorn status in 2021 and maintained a $1B+ valuation with a $75M Series F in 2025.