Horizontal vibration card with background

Who it’s for

Industrial maintenance engineers, facility managers, and structural health monitoring teams ask “is this machine or structure vibrating within safe limits right now?” They use these cards on plant floor or control room screens where a background image gives the card a polished look while keeping the layout narrow.

What it does

A sensor reading 5.2 m/s² shows an orange icon and value — Moderate — over the preset background image, in a horizontal strip that takes up less vertical space than a square card. The same card shows gray at 0.05 m/s² — Negligible — and dark red at 1 200 m/s² — Extreme.

• Color-coded icon and value across six vibration bands from Negligible to Extreme
• Horizontal layout with the icon and label on the left and the value on the right — fits narrow columns and metric-row dashboards
• Decorative background image bundled with the widget, with a white overlay that keeps the text readable
• Last-updated timestamp showing how long ago the reading arrived
• Shows one sensor’s data; it does not chart vibration trends or compare multiple sensors

How to set up

Data keys

Key	Role	Type	Description
vibration	Main value	Timeseries	Vibration acceleration (m/s²); change the key name to match your device’s telemetry key

The widget ships with a simulated function datasource key labeled Vibration, so it draws random values until you point the datasource at a device and rename the key.

To point it at your own device: open the dashboard in edit mode, open the widget’s Datasources, pick the entity or entity alias, and replace the function key with the key your device reports.

The card shows the value with two decimal places. If the key has never reported, the card displays the label and icon with an empty value, not an error.

Value ranges

Range (m/s²)	Level	Color
< 0.1	Negligible	Default
0.1–1	Low	Orange
1–10	Moderate	Orange
10–100	High	Red-Orange
100–1000	Severe	Red
1000+	Extreme	Dark Red

How to customize

• To swap the background image — open the widget settings and set Background to a different image or switch to a solid color.
• To adjust how much the background shows through — change the Overlay opacity; lower values reveal more of the image, higher values push it further back.
• To use your own vibration thresholds — edit Icon color ranges and Value color ranges; set the same boundaries in both so the icon and the number always agree.
• To change the icon — set Icon to any Material or MDI icon name.
• To hide the label, icon, or timestamp — turn off Show label, Show icon, or Show date.
• To match your dashboard’s fonts — set Value font and Label font.

Tips

• The six bands align broadly with ISO 10816 / ISO 20816 machinery vibration guidelines; adjust the thresholds for your specific machine class, mounting direction, and regulatory requirement.
• If the background image reduces contrast, raise the Overlay opacity to keep the text readable from a distance.
• This layout works well alongside temperature and noise level horizontal cards in a machine health row — together they convey the overall condition of a rotating asset without requiring a full-size card per metric.