WATER:

Remote data acquisition and supervisory control of water and sewage distribution systems, control and data analysis of pollution monitoring systems, data recording and reporting of meteorological data.

Water Companies using Sitewatch include: Scottish Water, Severn Trent Water and more.

Water Authority in UK.

One of the UK's largest Water Authorities uses a Sitewatch™ Remote Control and Monitoring System (RCMS) to monitor a wide variety of their remote sites and plant. With responsibilities for collecting and treating waste water, and for water treatment and distribution, the requirements are varied. The system currently has nearly 500 RTUs from the Lee-Dickens range, with new installations occurring all the time.

With so many RTUs, the fault tolerant Sitewatch™ Servers employ a pool of 'dial up' modems to provide constant availability. For further resilience, the Servers are situated in different Cities and communicate across the authority's Intranet. There are 35 Sitewatch™ clients scattered across many regions; many of these only view sites within the region. Operators at these clients are offered a rich set of functions (subject to 'log on' privilege) including:

• Graphics containing Dynamic Overview Maps
• Animated Schematics of Plant Detail
• Dial Site options
• Easy to use Trender
• Clear Alarm presentation
• Swift navigation from Alarm/Event text to relevant graphics display

One of the main advantages that the Sitewatch™ system offers the Water Authority, is the ability to easily add new RTUs on to the system and automatically update all of the clients. This technology also ensures that as technicians make changes to the configuration data or Graphic Display designs, all locations are updated without any local intervention.

During 'out of hours' periods, any alarms that are reported to the Sitewatch™ Servers are automatically printed at the authority's Call Centre where appropriate action can be taken. If required, a technician can from home, use a Sitewatch™ Client to inspect any problems; this is achieved using 'Dial Up' remote access.

Some of the more remote sites do not have Mains Power or Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) services. These sites have benefited from Solar or Wind powered RTUs and GSM communications.

back