Fecha de publicación: 04/10/2018 Fuente: WIPO "swarm" An apparatus, methods and systems for monitoring data collection in an industrial environment are disclosed. The system may include a data collector communicatively coupled to a plurality of input channels and to a network infrastructure, wherein the data collector collects data based on a selected data collection routine, a data storage structured to store a plurality of collector routes and collected data, a data acquisition circuit structured to interpret a plurality of detection values from the collected data, each of the plurality of detection values corresponding to at least one of the plurality of input channels, and a data analysis circuit structured to analyze the collected data and determine an aggregate rate of data being collected, wherein if the aggregate rate exceeds a current bandwidth allocation rate associated with the network infrastructure, then the data analysis circuit requests an increase to the current bandwidth allocation rate from the network infrastructure.