Capturing data for both operating machinery and its environment is of priority in most industries especially heavy industries. Some industries need to continuously and simultaneously monitor physical quantities such as temperature, pressure and speed of various parts of different equipment used in other to maintain and improve the quality of products and the efficiency of the process. The common and oldest system used to gather data is the wired sensor systems. This paper looks at wireless sensor technologies that can be used in heavy industries to capture much-needed data for analysis and logging. A few of the technologies were looked at. Challenges and advantages of each were highlighted. It was concluded that ZigBee communication technology has a better chance in the industrial environment.