  We present a flexible wireless monitoring system forbcondition-based
maintenance and diagnostics tailored for dynamic and complex experimental
setups encountered in modern research laboratories. Our platform leverages an
Internet-of-Things approach to monitor a wide range of physical parameters via
wireless sensor modules that broadcast to a networked computer. We give a
specific demonstration for a so-called ultracold atom machine, which is the
workhorse of many emerging quantum technologies and marries a broad spectrum of
equipment and instrumentation into its setup. As a distinctive feature, our
monitoring system taps into physical parameters of the ultracold atom machine
both via customized sensor modules that directly perform measurements, and via
modules that recruit and annex constituent instruments of the machine for the
additional purpose of retrieving information for diagnostics.
