Fecha de publicación: 07/02/2019 Fuente: WIPO "swarm" A monitoring apparatus, systems and methods for data collection in an industrial environment are disclosed. A 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, and a data analysis circuit structured to analyze the collected data and determine an aggregate rate of data being collected from the plurality of input channels, wherein if the aggregate rate exceeds a throughput parameter of the network infrastructure, then the data analysis circuit alters the data collection to reduce the amount of data collected.