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The Pinebrook Water District reservoir lies in the hills northwest of Boulder, Colo.
Flexible, Low-Cost Water Monitoring with Edge I/O
Remote I/O over MQTT helps Rust Automation deploy affordable remote monitoring in a challenging environment.
Mar 21st, 2022
To avoid overwhelming operators at the Tres Rios Water Reclamation Facility with too much data, the graphical presentation of control data on the upgraded HMI/SCADA system is based on situational awareness principles, including simplicity and a limited use of color. Source: Aveva
A Preference for Grayscale HMIs
Why a wastewater reclamation department designed its human machine interfaces without color-intensive, action-packed graphics.
Nov 30th, 2021
Vega’s Greg Tischler demonstrates the effects of heat in the atmosphere on both radar and ultrasonic technologies.
Radar Overcomes Price Constraints for Water/Wastewater Industry
Advocating radar technology as the better ultrasonic, Vega demonstrates how its radar sensors outperform under a variety of temperature, gas, pressure, and environmental conditions.
Feb 19th, 2020
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IIoT Enables Next-Level Remote Asset Monitoring
Connectivity advances and intelligent offerings are making it easier for manufacturers to monitor remote plant sites while opening up potential for new product-as-a-service offerings.
Jan 29th, 2020
Josh Eastburn, Opto 22
The Cost and Safety Benefits of Automated Water Management
A look at how automation is reducing costs while improving safety for unconventional natural gas production in the Permian Basin.
Nov 1st, 2019
Production Cockpit Analytics Software
Production Cockpit Analytics Software
TrendMiner 2019.R3 introduces a “production cockpit” that provides the processing engineer multiple ways to visualize and track plant production.
Oct 3rd, 2019
In addition to implementing a new DCS platform from Rockwell Automation, the City of Lima’s wastewater treatment plant rebuilt physical components, such as the headworks system that diverts water at the beginning of the sanitation process.
DCS Streamlines Monitoring, Costs and Training at Wastewater Plant
After Lima, Ohio, migrated its wastewater plant to a distributed control system, the city increased its water capacity, met updated regulations, improved training and reduced costs with real-time monitoring capabilities.
Mar 11th, 2019
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Water Utility Reduces Enterprise Complexity
A large water/wastewater utility adds application platforms to better manage growing plant complexity, relying on a fault-tolerant server to host the multiple platforms.
Mar 9th, 2018
Cybersecurity Lessons From Critical Infrastructure
Cybersecurity Lessons From Critical Infrastructure
Cyber attacks and threats against power plants and grids, water/wastewater facilities and transportation networks are on the rise. What is being done to improve cybersecurity at these facilities? And what lessons can manufacturers take away?
Nov 7th, 2017
Fig. 1. Underground wiring from the control building to this drip field traversed thousands of feet, leading to ongoing wiring maintenance issues. Source: RTUdirect
Low-Power RTUs Enable Wireless Control
System integrator RTUdirect replaced long runs of troublesome wiring to remote water treatment drip fields with wireless radios communicating from a base station to remote RTUs powered by solar panels.
Jan 16th, 2017
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Thinking Differently About Wastewater Management
A trend in centralized wastewater treatment points the way to future improvements in water usage, with lessons to be learned for other industries.
Aug 9th, 2016
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Real-Time pH Process Modeling and Control Simulation Software
It is the first in CyboSoft's virtual plant software family to help engineers learn how a pH process behaves, and how to effectively control this extremely nonlinear process to comply with EPA wastewater discharge codes and save chemical reagent.
May 12th, 2016
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Sierra Wireless: Low-Power LTE Industrial Gateway
AirLink Raven RV50 gateway provides mission-critical LTE communication and remote monitoring for industrial IoT applications, including utilities, oil and gas, and infrastructure.
Nov 27th, 2015
Brad Callihan of EMA Inc.
High-Performance HMI Guides System Upgrade
How the use of High-Performance HMI as part of a new cross-facility system upgrade helped Pima County, Ariz., better manage alarms, comply with regulations, and retain best practices with a new workforce.
Sep 25th, 2015
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Crouzet: Remote PLC
The em4 nano-PLC can communicate as part of the Internet of Things.
Dec 31st, 2014
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Water Plants Embrace the Cloud
Cellular wireless gateways make it easier to monitor far-flung water treatment plant operations. They also are enabling U.S. Water to offer Cloud-based remote monitoring as a service, so plants don’t have to manage the IT infrastructure themselves.
Oct 30th, 2014
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Tesla: Android SCADA Solution
The newest release of TeslaMultiSCADA supports Ethernet/IP protocol and Allen Bradley CompactLogix and ControlLogix.
Oct 20th, 2014
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Building a Robust Industrial Ethernet Network In Water and Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTP)
The control and management of a Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) is a complex task that requires constant supervision.
May 13th, 2014
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