SteamMatrix™

SteamMatrix™ - Steam Trap
Monitoring

Every Trap Heard. Every Failure
Caught. Day One.

Continuous Ultrasound Surveillance of Your Steam System.

SteamMatrix™ is the Industrial Matrix solution for steam trap monitoring -
moving steam system management beyond the annual clipboard survey
and into continuous predictive maintenance, mounting contact ultrasound
sensing on every critical trap to hear each discharge cycle through the trap
body while the line runs, streaming every live signal into MatrixHub™
where each trap's healthy rhythm is learned and any drift is flagged the
day it develops, validating every anomaly through our Customer Success
reliability experts so no false alarm ever reaches your work queue, and
converting each confirmed failure into a prioritized, tracked work order -
from the first abnormal ultrasonic signature to verified corrective action,
SteamMatrix™ closes the loop.

Our Purpose

From Annual Survey to Always-On Coverage

Roughly 30% of steam traps in a typical unmonitored system are failed right now - and every one of them is either burning steam or backing condensate into your process. Annual surveys catch failures up to a year late; continuous online ultrasound catches them the day they happen. Industrial Matrix replaces the survey route with a live health map of your steam system: every critical trap sensed, analyzed, validated, and acted on inside one closed-loop reliability ecosystem - the same condition monitoring foundation that powers predictive and prescriptive maintenance across your plant.

Precision at the Core

Failed Traps Are Invisible - Not Silent

A healthy trap discharges in clean, intermittent ultrasonic bursts. A failed-open trap blows steam in a constant roar; a failed-closed trap goes dead quiet. Ultrasound hears the difference through the trap body - while the line runs.

Stop Paying the Steam Bill Twice

A single small trap failed open can waste $8,000+ per year in steam production cost. Continuous monitoring catches it the day it fails - not at next year's survey.

Protect Equipment, Not Just Energy

Failed-closed traps back condensate into the system - causing water hammer, poor heat transfer, back pressure, and product quality problems long before anyone notices.

From Annual Survey to Always-On Coverage

Mounted ultrasound sensing trends every critical trap continuously and alarms into MatrixHub™ - replacing the clipboard route with a live health map of your steam system.

≈30%

of steam traps in a typical unmonitored system are failed right now

$8–12k

annual steam loss from one 12 mm trap failed open on a 7 bar system

Day 1

failure detection with continuous ultrasound vs. up to a year with surveys

What We Detect

Failure Mode

Ultrasonic Signature

Consequence If Missed

Failed open (blowing)

Constant high-intensity ultrasound - live steam passing continuously

Direct steam loss, boiler overwork, CO₂ penalty

Failed closed (cold trap)

No discharge signal - trap dead quiet with steam upstream

Water hammer, frozen lines, equipment damage

Leaking / partial failure

Elevated baseline between discharge cycles

Creeping energy loss, wet steam at point of use

Rapid cycling

Abnormally frequent discharge bursts

Accelerated trap wear, undersized-trap warning

Back pressure / flooding

Discharge pattern drift plus falling line temperature

Poor heat transfer, product quality drift

How It Works - The Closed Loop

Sense → Analyze → Validate → Act

Sense

UltraVibe™ 4-in-1 on the trap body hears every discharge cycle via contact ultrasound - through thick pipework, in any ambient noise.

Analyze

MatrixHub™ learns each trap's healthy rhythm - hot and quiet with intermittent bursts - and flags any drift from it.

Validate

Our Customer Success team validates every flagged anomaly before it reaches you - no false alarms in your work queue.

Act

Each confirmed failure becomes a prioritized work order, reviewed in our biweekly CS meeting and tracked until implemented and solved.

Coverage is engineered per steam system during site survey - critical
process traps continuously, low-duty drip legs on routed intervals.

Assets We Monitor

Steam Trap Stations


Individual process traps on production lines and point-of-use equipment - each one monitored continuously through the trap body.

Distribution Lines & Drip Legs


Outdoor steam distribution piping, drip leg banks, and trap manifolds where one failed trap degrades an entire branch.

Heat Exchanger & Condensate Return Traps

Trap banks under heat exchangers and condensate return systems - where flooding and back pressure first show up, and cost the most.

Technical Specifications

Specifications reflect the reference sensing hardware for each PULSE™
domain and are pending final confirmation from engineering before
publication.

Sensing Method

Contact ultrasound / HFE (1 kHz – 20 kHz demodulated) + surface temperature

Detects

Failed-open, failed-closed, leaking, rapid cycling, back pressure / flooding

Mounting

External to trap body - no line shutdown, no pipework modification

Housing

316 Stainless Steel, IP69K washdown rated, -40°C to +105°C at the element

Communication

Modbus RTU (RS-485) into PLC, SCADA, and MatrixHub™

Analytics

Per-trap baseline learning, discharge-pattern trending, validated alarming in MatrixHub™

FAQ

Our Vision

A steam system where no trap fails silently. SteamMatrix™ turns the annual survey into always-on intelligence - every discharge heard, every failure caught on day one, every correction verified.

Stop surveying. Start monitoring.