Remote Data Acquisition and Equipment Monitoring
Industrial machinery and peripheral equipment must operate within specified parameters to perform as designed, meet production targets, and control costs.
Equipment located in remote areas is often operated without active monitoring because electric power is unavailable, on-site personnel is infrequent or unskilled (for analysis and remedial action), or wired data transmission is unavailable. Problems such as improper settings, degraded performance, or out-of-tolerance operation can go unnoticed for days or months. This can cause excessive wear, wasted energy, poor performance, higher costs, or even catastrophic failure.
Monitor and Control Equipment
Our remote data acquisition and equipment monitoring solutions combine instrumentation (temperature, pressure, humidity, force, torque, strain, speed, volume, vibration, sound, voltage, current, etc.), SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) systems, remote telemetry units (RTUs), wireless data, and solar power.
They provide a dependable (24 hours a day, 7 days a week) and cost-effective system for monitoring, logging and controlling remote equipment (pumps, valves, motors, relays). The system can improve performance, make a safe recovery from fault conditions, and reduce operating costs.
Common applications for solar-powered remote data acquisition and equipment monitoring are:
- Oil and gas – Pipelines, wells, flow measurement, control valves
- Telecommunications – Signal power and condition
- Water collection, treatment and distribution – Pump station, water flow, quality, turbidity
- Wastewater – Lift station and pumping
- Public works and infrastructure – Roads, bridges, dams, canals, tunnels
- Landfill – Flare, methane, effluent, leachate
- Remote power – Mobile and standby generator, power quality, failure alarm
- Public health – Emissions, toxins, contaminants (air, water, land)
- Science and research – Environmental/climate change studies. Measure air, water and land.
- Weather forecasting – Meteorological station, water flow, ice movement
Advantages of Solar Power
There are many advantages to using solar electric power in remote, inaccessible or standalone applications:
Affordable
Off-grid solar electric systems are now price competitive with alternative energy sources, such as operating diesel generators or installing utility electricity, as measured by Dollars per kWh of energy generated.
Reliable
Unlike gas or diesel generators, or wind turbines, photovoltaic power systems have no moving parts and require little maintenance.
Flexible
Solar power systems can be designed in modules to meet specific requirements now. Add more capacity later with no equipment replacement as loads increase.