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Augury Machine Health versus Nanoprecise MachineDoctor: can it use your sensors
This comparison has one decisive fact in it and everything else is secondary. Augury cannot use your existing sensors. Nanoprecise says it can. If you have already instrumented part of your plant, that single difference decides this, and no feature row outweighs it.
Augury is a service and Augury says so itself. Augury states that it does not sell hardware and instead delivers Diagnostics as a Service, covering sensors, software, connectivity, installation, support, updates and unlimited diagnostics for a flat fee per machine, billed annually. You are not buying a software licence and you are not buying sensors. You are buying an annual per-machine monitoring subscription in which Augury supplies and owns the measurement chain. Because the sensors come with the service, there is no route to using your existing instrumentation: this is a parallel monitoring layer installed on your machines, not an analytics layer over data you already hold. Augury's terms do note that routine hardware maintenance such as battery replacement is performed by customer personnel following Augury instructions, so some labour stays with you.
Nanoprecise is a genuine hybrid. MachineDoctor is the wireless battery-operated sensor and RotationLF is the analytics platform, licensed per sensor on a twelve-month contract. But Nanoprecise describes RotationLF as a scalable and sensor-agnostic platform that can also ingest existing vibration sensor data, and it states that RotationLF can run on private cloud or on-premises rather than only in a vendor-hosted multi-tenant cloud. That combination, existing-sensor ingestion plus on-premises capability, does not exist on the Augury side at all. Test the sensor-agnostic claim against your actual sensors during a pilot rather than relying on it.
Last reviewed 7 November 2026
The products
Augury Machine Health
Augury
Machine health monitoring delivered as Diagnostics as a Service. Augury states it does not sell hardware and instead bundles sensors, software, connectivity, installation, support and unlimited diagnostics for a flat per-machine fee.
Full profileNanoprecise MachineDoctor
Nanoprecise Sci Corp
Sensor hardware plus cloud analytics for predictive maintenance. MachineDoctor is a six-in-one wireless sensor and RotationLF is the analytics platform, licensed per sensor on an annual contract, though the platform is described as sensor agnostic.
Full profileThe main differences
What each one measures. Augury names a combination of vibration, temperature, ultrasound and magnetic field sensor data, with coverage described across more than two hundred asset types and four criticality levels. The ultrasound element is specifically relevant to very low-speed equipment where vibration signatures are weak. Nanoprecise names six parameters in one device: three-dimensional vibration, acoustic emission, surface temperature, humidity, true RPM and magnetic flux, with WiFi, LTE and a light-harvesting LUX variant powered from ambient light. Acoustic emission is relevant to early-stage bearing damage and low-speed assets, and true RPM helps on variable-speed machines. Both are concrete, checkable sensing specifications, which is more than most of this category offers.
Neither is credited with failure prediction. Augury markets prescriptive AI diagnostics to predict and prevent failure but names no model, no data requirement and no failure modes. Nanoprecise lists anomaly detection, fault diagnosis and mean time to failure prediction as platform benefits without describing the models, the data history required or the failure modes covered. For both products, failure prediction and anomaly detection could not be verified from published sources. Augury publishes a Forrester study with ROI and payback figures and Nanoprecise publishes a false-alarm reduction percentage; none of those figures are recorded in this directory.
Integration is weak on both sides. Augury says it integrates with a variety of software platforms and has engineers to enable integration into the systems you use, but names no specific platform, no CMMS, no API and no ERP anywhere on its public pages. For Nanoprecise no named CMMS, ERP, historian, protocol or API could be confirmed either. If automated work order creation is a hard requirement, pin it down contractually with whichever you choose.
Pricing models, not prices. Neither amount is published. Augury's model is a flat fee per machine per year covering everything. Nanoprecise is per sensor per year on a twelve-month contract, with the LTE and WiFi variants priced differently; figures exist on an AWS Marketplace listing, which is a reseller channel, and were deliberately not recorded here. The shapes differ in a way that matters: a flat per-machine fee is predictable, while per-sensor annual licensing scales linearly, so plant-wide coverage of hundreds of machines becomes expensive against a flat platform licence.
Side by side
| Attribute | Augury Machine Health | Nanoprecise MachineDoctor |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Augury | Nanoprecise Sci Corp |
| Primary use | Condition monitoring | Condition monitoring |
| Deployment | Cloud | Cloud, On-premises |
| Organisation size | Medium, Enterprise | Small, Medium, Enterprise |
| Licensing model | Commercial | Commercial |
| Free version | No | No |
| Trial | Not verified | Not verified |
| Published price | Contact vendor for pricing | Contact vendor for pricing |
| Product status | Active | Active |
| Capabilities | ||
| Documented API | Not verified No API documentation found on Augury public pages. | Not verified No API documentation found. |
| Reporting and dashboards | Not verified | Not verified |
| Work order and CMMS integration | Not verified Augury says it integrates with a variety of software platforms but names no CMMS or work order system anywhere public. | Not verified No named CMMS or work order integration verified. |
| SCADA and historian integration | Not verified | Not verified |
| Sensor connectivity | Yes Sensors, connectivity and installation are included in the service. These are Augury sensors; there is no stated support for existing third-party instrumentation. source | Yes WiFi and LTE sensor variants plus a light-harvesting model. Nanoprecise also describes RotationLF as sensor agnostic and able to ingest existing vibration sensor data. source |
| Digital twin | Not verified Not described. | Not verified Not described. |
| Root cause analysis | Not verified Diagnostics are referenced but no root cause capability is described. | Not verified Fault diagnosis is claimed; no root cause method described. |
| FMEA support | Not verified | Not verified |
| Reliability-centred maintenance | Not verified | Not verified |
| Reliability modelling | Not verified No RCM or FMEA method named. | Not verified No RCM or FMEA method named. |
| Asset health scoring | Yes Machine Health is described as machine diagnostics across asset types with criticality levels. source | Yes Platform provides fault diagnosis and decision support across monitored assets. source |
| Failure prediction | Not verified Augury markets prescriptive AI diagnostics to predict and prevent failure but names no model, no data requirement and no failure modes. Claim without described mechanism, so unknown. No accuracy or lead-time figures recorded. | Not verified Mean time to failure prediction is listed as a platform benefit but no model, data requirement or failure mode list is described. Recorded unknown. No accuracy or lead-time figures recorded. |
| Anomaly detection | Not verified No anomaly detection mechanism described. | Not verified Anomaly detection is named as a benefit without any described mechanism. |
| Vibration analysis | Yes Augury names a combination of vibration, temperature, ultrasound and magnetic field sensor data as the basis of Machine Health diagnostics. source | Yes Sensor measures three-dimensional vibration alongside acoustic emission, surface temperature, humidity, true RPM and magnetic flux. source |
| Condition monitoring | Yes Core offering: continuous machine health monitoring using Augury-supplied sensors, delivered as a service with unlimited diagnostics. source | Yes MachineDoctor wireless sensors feeding the RotationLF cloud platform for continuous machine condition monitoring. source |
| Last reviewed | 7 November 2026 | 7 November 2026 |
| Profile | View profile | View profile |
Not verified means the capability has not been checked for that product. It does not mean the product lacks it. Blank cells and unverified rows are never counted as a "no".
Strengths and limitations
Drawn from each product's own profile, where every item is labelled a verified fact or an editorial judgement.
Augury Machine Health
Read the full assessmentNanoprecise MachineDoctor
Read the full assessmentWhich to choose
Choose Augury Machine Health if you want machine health coverage without owning any part of the stack, you have no vibration analysis capability, and the predictable flat annual fee per machine suits your budgeting better than a capital sensor project. Model the multi-year subscription cost and the exit position before signing, because ending the subscription ends the monitoring, and get the integration path to your CMMS written into the contract rather than left as a promise that engineers can enable it.
Choose Nanoprecise MachineDoctor if you already have instrumentation you want to keep using, if OT isolation or data residency rules out a vendor-hosted cloud, or if you want a small bounded pilot on a handful of machines, which per-sensor annual licensing makes genuinely practical. Validate pricing directly with Nanoprecise rather than from a marketplace listing.
Neither of these is a substitute for the other in procurement terms. One is a service contract with vendor-owned sensors and no route to your existing estate. The other is hardware plus a subscription with a software layer that claims to accept third-party data. Settle the measurement question first using condition monitoring techniques, and edge versus cloud if data egress is constrained.
Frequently asked questions
Nanoprecise states it can: RotationLF is described as sensor agnostic and able to ingest existing vibration sensor data. Augury cannot. Augury supplies the sensors as part of the service and makes no public statement about analysing third-party instrumentation, so prior investment is not leveraged. This is the whole decision for a plant that is already instrumented.
A service. Augury states it does not sell hardware and instead delivers Diagnostics as a Service, bundling sensors, software, connectivity, installation, support, updates and unlimited diagnostics for a flat per-machine fee billed annually.
Nanoprecise states RotationLF can run on private cloud or on-premises. For Augury no on-premises option could be verified, so it is recorded as unknown. If your IT or OT policy prohibits a vendor-managed cloud data path, that rules Augury out.
Neither is credited with failure prediction. Augury names no model, data requirement or failure modes behind its prescriptive AI claim, and Nanoprecise lists mean time to failure prediction as a benefit without describing the models. For both, failure prediction could not be verified from published sources.
Sources and review basis
Attribute values come from each product's structured profile rather than being written into this page, so a correction made once appears everywhere. This comparison was last reviewed on 7 November 2026. Assessment of this category is documentation-based, not hands-on testing of every product.
- Augury, Machine Health and Process Health accessed 7 November 2026
- Augury pricing accessed 7 November 2026
- Asset maintenance and reliability with Nanoprecise MachineDoctor on AWS accessed 7 November 2026
Disclosure
Alongside advisory work I also build a CMMS and CAFM platform, so I have a commercial interest in enterprise software generally. No vendor here has paid for inclusion, placement or wording, and there are no reseller or affiliate arrangements.
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