Above-Net accepted the challenge of modernizing the remote monitoring of water treatment and distribution plants for a large state-owned sanitation company in Brazil, which sought solutions that could simplify the industrial park's outdated communication system.
With an outdated system, where communication between equipment and PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers) was done via cables connected to the main stations, there were many problems, such as data transmission failures and significant complexity in maintaining and expanding this network.
Above-Net presented the Bridgemeter solution, comprised of a customizable telemetry system and modern industrial IoT (Internet of Things) devices capable of connecting with sensors, equipment, or controllers, enabling the monitoring, collection, and programming of intelligent rules for predicting problems and analyzing data from remote locations.
With Bridgemeter , all communication between equipment, previously done via cables, is now carried out over the 3G/4G network in real time. With this solution, managers can create alarms that trigger notifications on dashboards, email, or through the app. In some situations, it's possible to program remote activation for opening or closing valves.
The solution monitors water flow and level at intake points, phase failure and electrical current in pumps, pump status, and controls the opening and closing of valves.
Bridgemeter intelligently and automatically interprets non-standard operating conditions, notifying the responsible groups according to predefined parameters. This allows for the anticipation of important maintenance without interrupting operations. Bridgemeter's operational advantages enable the achievement of over 95% SLA (Service Level Agreement).
In the sanitation industry, where there is a supervisory system for operation such as SCADA, Bridgemeter connects to the system transparently at remote points, managing the remote connection to legacy systems and actively generating alarms for the field team, transmitting information from equipment and sensors in real time to the platform, and enabling the expansion of measurements without the need to purchase new PLCs.
Data convergence
With the privatization of this public sanitation company, the distribution of drinking water was divided among three private companies, while the public operator retained control of water intake and sewage treatment.
However, all the data from the operations of the 4 companies needed to be transmitted to the same control center. The challenge was to make different technologies capable of reading the data and sharing it with the SCADA system of each company.
Above-Net has developed and made available an architecture that turns Bridgemeter into a read bus, overcoming the limitation of the PLC which only allows the connection of a single supervisory system for data access.
“Instead of having two systems for reading at the PLC end, a layer was created where Above-Net performs a single data reading, and through Bridgemeter, multiple readings are allowed by supervisory systems from each of the utility companies. This eliminates the limitation of the PLC, which only allows one reading,” commented Rafael Pougy, project manager at Above-Net.
The Bridgemeter solution can be contracted under the SaaS model (monthly payment), thereby reducing capital expenditures, or CAPEX.
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