Automated Data Acquisition for a Prognostics and Diagnostics Health Monitoring System

A highly flexible automated prognostics and diagnostics sensor module (PDSM) prototype is presently under development to be incorporated for data acquisition in a Prognostics and Diagnostics Health Monitoring System (PDHMS). PDHMS acquires, stores, and communicates data gathered from sensors that monitor essential platform components to determine its current diagnostic status. This diagnostic data is used to make reliable prognostications of remaining operational life expectancy based on a platform usage profile.