Water Management
remote management, predictive maintenance and quality. The amount of data generated in the
water industry is phenomenal. A typical plant might collect data from hundreds of thousands of I/O and telemetry points, from local assets and from unmanned pumping stations, remote reservoirs, pollution monitoring systems and more.
In addition, with leak management
firmly under the spotlight, companies are also installing flow and pressure sensors at frequent intervals along pipelines, exponentially increasing the number of data points. How can all of this data be collected and managed?
Wireless telemetry The traditional picture of leased lines and wireless telemetry systems is one of cost and complexity. Making it practical and affordable
meant dealing with quite small volumes of data, perhaps only transmitted three or four times per hour and generally only in one direction. For effective asset management and decision making, water industry operations need more data, more quickly and need to be able to analyse and react to that data in real time. Ethernet and internet connectivity
revealed how large volumes of data, made available anywhere, could really help to enhance process and production operations. Now GSM networks are delivering
on the promise of high-speed, bi-directional transfer of large volumes of data between individual devices, with barely a consideration needed for range, on-time, power, cost or data limits. All of this is without any incurred expenditure on network infrastructure or installation. In fact GSM has proved to be the
enabler for the Internet of Things (IoT), or as it is alternatively referred to, Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications. M2M communications can be
defined as a system in which individual devices capture data on events, and relay that data through a network (wired,
wireless or hybrid) to an application (software program) that translates the captured data into meaningful information. Mitsubishi Electric is delivering
affordable, end-to-end IP data connectivity for water utilities – and many other potential applications. The solution is built on the MAPS SCADA software and Mitsubishi FX/L/Q series PLCs, for both control and data acquisition, to and from remote sites. The communication’s intelligence lies in the standard integrated PLC function blocks matched to an M2M driver in the MAPS SCADA. The Mitsubishi M2M solution
provides remote communication with the PLC without the presence of an on-site technician. The operator can monitor and control an individual
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he Internet of Things is coming to the water industry, delivering new levels of data that will enable water companies to control remote assets with increased sophistication, minimise risk, ensure security of supply, save energy and meet ever more stringent EU directives.
device or group of devices through the MAPS SCADA interface. This solution can also allow a technician to do PLC programming over the air to the remote M2M device. There is no need for a technician to go out to site to do a program change. The intelligent M2M driver in MAPS automatically monitors the
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Mitsubishi Electric’s M2M communication solution’s intelligence lies in the standard integrated PLC function blocks matched to an M2M driver in the MAPS SCADAMitsubishi Electric’s M2M communication solution’s intelligence lies in the standard integrated PLC function blocks matched to an M2M driver in the MAPS SCADA.
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