MOXA Case Studies Cellular RTU for Building Beijing Water Pipeline Remote Monitoring Systems

	Cellular RTU for Building Beijing Water Pipeline Remote Monitoring Systems MOXA

Cellular RTU for Building Beijing Water Pipeline Remote Monitoring Systems

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Technology Category	Automation & Control - Supervisory Control & Data Acquisition (SCADA) Networks & Connectivity - Cellular
Applicable Industries	Utilities
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Challenge	Water pipeline pressure needs to be kept at 0.3 Mpa in order to deliver a reliable stream of tap water to homes, businesses, and factories. Water companies use real-time monitoring systems in order to achieve consistent water pressure management that can quickly respond to any sudden drops of water pressure. System Requirements - Monitor all the distributed pressure points of a widely distributed water pipeline network - Monitor and display in real-time data from every pressure value on the central SCADA system HMI - Stable cellular communications network - High expandability Read More
Customer Name	Undisclosed Read More
Solution	Moxa's ioLogik W5340 is a cellular RTU solution designed specifically for remote monitoring systems. Compared with RF monitoring solutions, cellular offers a more cost efficient way to build a remote monitoring solution. Traditional cellular products use polling to request data, which requires a static and public IP. Moxa’s ioLogik W5340 can actively update pressure values to the SCADA system regardless of what kind of IP address it uses. In addition, active reporting provides a way to get real-time data from the remote location, which is impossible with a polling system. As a simple comparison, it takes a traditional polling architecture two to three minutes to obtain four different pressure values from different monitoring sites. The ioLogik W5340 can use active communications to obtain the status in just a few seconds. Moreover, the ioLogik W5340 also supports local intelligence, so control logic can be executed and stored in the front-end device for a truly PC-free solution. The ioLogik W5340 includes free Active OPC Server software that integrates seamlessly with any SCADA system. In addition to Active OPC Server, the free Moxa DA-Center software allows users to feed the I/O data straight into a database or quickly produce Excel files for data analysis. Read More Log in to view content
Data Collected	Connectivity Status, Network Performance (bits/s), Water Pressure Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Automation & Control - Supervisory Control & Data Acquisition (SCADA)

Networks & Connectivity - Cellular

Applicable Industries

Utilities

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Challenge

Water pipeline pressure needs to be kept at 0.3 Mpa in order to deliver a reliable stream of tap water to homes, businesses, and factories. Water companies use real-time monitoring systems in order to achieve consistent water pressure management that can quickly respond to any sudden drops of water pressure. System Requirements - Monitor all the distributed pressure points of a widely distributed water pipeline network - Monitor and display in real-time data from every pressure value on the central SCADA system HMI - Stable cellular communications network - High expandability

Customer Name

Undisclosed

Solution

Moxa's ioLogik W5340 is a cellular RTU solution designed specifically for remote monitoring systems. Compared with RF monitoring solutions, cellular offers a more cost efficient way to build a remote monitoring solution. Traditional cellular products use polling to request data, which requires a static and public IP. Moxa’s ioLogik W5340 can actively update pressure values to the SCADA system regardless of what kind of IP address it uses. In addition, active reporting provides a way to get real-time data from the remote location, which is impossible with a polling system. As a simple comparison, it takes a traditional polling architecture two to three minutes to obtain four different pressure values from different monitoring sites. The ioLogik W5340 can use active communications to obtain the status in just a few seconds. Moreover, the ioLogik W5340 also supports local intelligence, so control logic can be executed and stored in the front-end device for a truly PC-free solution. The ioLogik W5340 includes free Active OPC Server software that integrates seamlessly with any SCADA system. In addition to Active OPC Server, the free Moxa DA-Center software allows users to feed the I/O data straight into a database or quickly produce Excel files for data analysis.

Data Collected

Connectivity Status, Network Performance (bits/s), Water Pressure

Impact #1	[Data Management - Real Time Data] Real-time data acquisition with active report technology
Impact #2	[Data Management - Connectivity Flexibility] All-in-one cellular solution, seamless connection to SCADA via Active OPC server

Impact #1

[Data Management - Real Time Data]
Real-time data acquisition with active report technology

Impact #2

[Data Management - Connectivity Flexibility]
All-in-one cellular solution, seamless connection to SCADA via Active OPC server

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Cellular RTU for Building Beijing Water Pipeline Remote Monitoring Systems

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