Short answer: Amplified Industries sells a well automation system: clamp-on load cells, pressure sensors and a pump-off controller that can run your rod-lift wells for you. If control is what you want, it is a serious option. If what you really want is to know your tanks, pressures and engines are fine without driving the lease, you can skip the controller. TinyPumper watches tanks, pressures and runtime on one gateway, with nothing to wire, for one flat rate per site.
Picture Sunday night. The water tank on a lease forty miles out is climbing, the compressor sat down an hour ago, and nobody will see either until Monday’s route. The question that matters is not “who can run my pumping unit from the cloud?” It is “who tells me tonight?”
This page is for you if:
- You run remote leases where a missed problem costs you a weekend of production.
- You looked at Amplified and wondered whether you need control, or just need to see.
- You want a price you can figure per site before you call anybody.
What Is Amplified Industries?
Amplified Industries, Inc. is an oilfield technology company that came out of MIT. It builds wireless sensors, a gateway that doubles as a pump-off controller, and a web dashboard and mobile app with alarms, tickets and field management. Its own site says the system goes “beyond monitoring” into automated control and artificial lift work, on everything from strong wells to stripper wells (Amplified website, 2026).
In a 2023 release, the company said it had more than 4,000 devices deployed across six U.S. states (Business Wire press release, August 2023). Its Android app is still listed under its earlier name, Acoustic Wells (Google Play listing, 2026).
What Does Amplified Do Well?
- Pump cards on every stroke. A clamp-on load cell captures, in the company’s words, “every pump card for every stroke” (Amplified website, 2026). For a rod-lift engineer, that is real data.
- Control, not just alerts. The gateway acts as a pump-off controller and can turn equipment on and off remotely.
- Talks to old gear. Its Modbus hardware ships with RS-232 and RS-485 connectors and works with named drives and flow computers such as ABB Totalflow (Amplified website, 2026).
- Long-lived sensors. MIT News reported the battery sensors last ten years (MIT News, March 2024).
Credit where it is due. If you want a machine to tune your pumping units, Amplified is built for that.
Where Does Amplified Ask More of You?
Control comes with strings.
- Wiring at the panel. Amplified says its standard well kit “uses the same wiring as a timer clock” (Amplified website, 2026). That means opening the motor control box on each well.
- Integration work. Pulling drives and flow computers in over serial cables takes someone who knows Modbus mapping, even when the maps come pre-built.
- A controller is a responsibility. Once a device can stop your pump, someone has to own its settings, its alarms and what happens when it guesses wrong.
- A price you can’t finish. Amplified’s starting price is $550 per well (Kansas Oil and Gas Buyers Guide listing, viewed October 2026), but no monthly fee is published, so you cannot work out the real yearly cost until you get a quote.
- Little public feedback. G2 lists zero reviews for the company (G2, 2026).
None of that is a flaw if you want automation. It is a lot of overhead if you just want to know the tank isn’t running over.
How Does TinyPumper Compare?
| Amplified Industries | TinyPumper | |
|---|---|---|
| Main job | Well automation: pump-off control, pump cards, optimization | Watching: tank levels, pressures, engine and compressor runtime |
| Controls the well? | Yes, pump-off control and remote on/off | No. It watches and alerts; it does not shut in or adjust the pump |
| Tank level | Level measurement on tanks (Amplified website, 2026) | Radar on top of the tank, no fluid contact |
| Install | Under thirty minutes per site; standard well kit wires like a timer clock (Amplified website, 2026) | Your team self-installs in 8 minutes, no wiring |
| Power | Battery devices, with solar options on gas-fueled wells (Amplified website, 2026) | Solar-powered gateway |
| Price | Starts at $550 per well; monthly fee not published (Kansas Oil and Gas Buyers Guide listing, viewed October 2026) | $349 a sensor, one time, then one flat rate a month per site, unlimited sensors |
| If it breaks | Ask the vendor | Lifetime hardware replacement |
| Trial | Ask the vendor | 60-day money-back, we pay return shipping |
The Honest Trade: Control or Simplicity?
Here is our admission. TinyPumper does not control anything. It will not shut in a well or change your pump speed. What it does is give you roughly 99% of what you’d pay SCADA for, at about 95% less, and it gets there without a single wire to the panel.
For most conventional leases, that is the whole job. The costly surprises are a tank running high, pressure creeping up on a casing or flowline, or an engine that quit at midnight. TinyPumper sensors report every hour and check your thresholds every 5 minutes, so the alert goes out the moment a line gets crossed.
Producers running TinyPumper report cutting lease runs by 30 to 50 percent and catching failures days sooner. For the bigger picture, see our oil well monitoring systems guide.
TinyPumper is GreaseBook’s sister product. Its readings flow into the same GreaseBook dashboard where your pumpers’ gauges and run tickets live, so sensor data and field data sit on one screen.
TinyPumper gives you 100% continental US coverage, because we use satellite. It connects up to 8 sensors per gateway. It comes with a 60 days money-back guarantee and lifetime replacement on all equipment. It is Class I Div 1 certified, IP67-rated, and runs from -40°C to 70°C (-38°F to 158°F).
TinyPumper watches tanks, pressure and runtime on one gateway. $349 a sensor, one time, then one flat rate a month per site. Try it for 60 days.
See TinyPumperWhat Does an Amplified Industries Alternative Cost?
Amplified’s published floor is $550 per well (Kansas Oil and Gas Buyers Guide listing, viewed October 2026), before any monthly fee or install help, neither of which is published. TinyPumper is $349 a sensor, one time. Then one flat rate a month per site, from $79, with unlimited sensors at that site. Adding a second tank or a pressure sensor to the same site never raises the monthly bill.
When Is Amplified the Better Fit?
If you run rod-lift wells and want a pump-off controller that reads every card and adjusts the unit for you, buy Amplified, or another POC. TinyPumper is not trying to win that fight. If you need full control of instrumented facilities, look at oil and gas SCADA or our guide to automation in the oil and gas industry.
Searching for Amplified Industries? Quick Answers
- Amplified Industries products: sensors and a pump-off controller for wells, monitoring for tanks, flow and injection pressure, and a Modbus kit for older drives and flow computers.
- Amplified Industries oilfield: oil and gas is its main market today.
- Dashboard Amplified Industries: the company runs a web dashboard and a mobile app with alarms and tickets.
- Amplified Industries, Inc. (sometimes typed “Amplified Industries; Inc.”): that is the company’s full legal name.
- Amplified Industries stock: we know of no public listing; the company announced $10 million in funding as a private company (Business Wire press release, August 2023).
- Amplified Industries address, Boston and careers: the company came out of MIT; check its own site for its current office and job openings.
- Eric Zhang Amplified Industries: searches for leadership names belong on the company’s own about page; this page compares products, not people.
- Amplified Technologies, Amplified Parts and Amplified Wellness: different companies with no tie to oilfield monitoring.
- Amplified synonym: the word means made louder or stronger: boosted, magnified, heightened.
Who This Page Is Not For
This page is not for producers who want pump-off control or remote shut-ins, and it is not for producers who need full SCADA. For the rest of the field, see oilfield monitoring alternatives and oilfield tank monitoring.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Amplified Industries?
Amplified Industries, Inc. is an oilfield technology company that came out of MIT. It sells wireless well sensors, a gateway that works as a pump-off controller, and a dashboard and mobile app with alarms and tickets. Its focus is rod-lift automation: reading pump cards, adjusting pumping units, and watching tanks, flow and injection pressure. Its Android app is still listed under the earlier name Acoustic Wells.
How much does Amplified Industries cost?
A Kansas Oil and Gas Buyers Guide listing, viewed in October 2026, gives a starting price of $550 per well. It does not say what that covers, and Amplified does not publish a monthly fee or an install charge. Get a written quote that spells out hardware, monthly service and install labor before you compare it with anything else.
What is the best Amplified Industries alternative?
It depends on whether you need control. If you want a pump-off controller, look at other POC vendors. If you need to watch tank levels, pressure and engine or compressor runtime and get an alert fast, TinyPumper fits. It runs on one solar gateway, needs no wiring, and costs $349 a sensor, one time, then one flat monthly rate per site.
Does TinyPumper do pump-off control?
No. TinyPumper only watches. It does not shut in a well or change pump speed. It reads tank levels with radar mounted on top of the tank, tracks wellhead, flowline and injection pressure, and counts engine and compressor runtime. Sensors report hourly and check your thresholds every 5 minutes, so an alarm reaches your phone as soon as something crosses the line.
Is Amplified Industries a public stock?
We know of no public stock listing. Amplified Industries announced it had raised $10 million in funding as a private company in an August 2023 Business Wire press release. For anything about ownership, leadership or job openings, the company’s own website is the best place to check.