The monitoring system is vital in the manufacturing industry. It can show or detect the possibility of unwanted behavior. However, the monitoring system needs high investment costs. Therefore, an affordable wireless vibration monitoring system built by commonly available devices in the market was developed in this study. The system has two microcontrollers, each connected to a sensor (as the transmitter module) and a personal computer (as the receiver module). From the MEMS sensor used, the vibration data is transmitted to a personal computer using a wireless communication device. Furthermore, the monitoring application shows a time domain graph from the vibration sensor reading. It includes the signal parameter reading, such as amplitude and RMS. If the data value passes the threshold, the application notifies a mobile phone via message through the WhatsApp application. Moreover, the system can collect data at a sample rate of 1500 samples per second, the level of the sensitivity of the sensor ranges between 40 mV/g, and the measurement range is ± 50 g. Eventually, the cost of this monitoring system is about 100 USD, which is 5% of the cost of the existing sensor and data acquisition system. This system showed close agreement with the data accessible by the commercialized sensor and monitoring system. Currently, this system was implemented and evaluated in a lathe machine.