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Using Equinox in water supply utilities

SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) systems provide water utilities with data and tools that are very important to perform the main business function: deliver water in a safe, reliable and profitable way. A water management company that counts on a good SCADA product could easily achieve an effective operation of its most critical and costly assets: storage, transport and distribution of potable water from its source to the city businesses and residences.

The challenges that today’s SCADA systems and projects face have changed during the last years. Today focus is on easier integration, the use of modern network and communication technologies, big ammounts of information being accessed by more users, among other aims.

Deploying Equinox in water supply utilities

Equinox, in response to this increasing change in the business model and needs, brings more functionalities that are useful advancements that meet the demands of water supply utilities worldwide. Is a strategic investment for utilities of all sizes that are confronting these new market challenges. Equinox not only helps utilities to deliver water in a reliable and and safe manner to their customers but also helps by lowering costs and improving customer satisfaction.

How could you benefit from the use of Equinox?

Equinox is mature product that was successfully deployed in many small and medium size water utilities all over the country. Our product could be configured to control various equipments to monitor storage, transport and distribution of water through analog and digital input and output modules, PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers), RTUs (Remote Terminal Unit) among other devices with communication capabilities using several protocols such as MODBUS and DNP3.

Many utilities have their equipments completely isolated from the central office even when they have communication capabilities. In some cases they use propietary software that permits to connect one equipment at a time allowing them to see information only while they are connected: once they connect to a new device they stop receiving information from the previous one. This software only works for equipments of the same brand and type and cannot be expanded.

Remote control of the equipments is not possible in these cases, so when an abnormal situation occurs the utility must send a crew to the site to manually check the problem.

Equinox offers you the possibility on multi brand integration: Multiple devices from multiple kind and brands could be easily connected to one central location where Equinox is running. Real time information is received from these equipments allowing our system to detect abnormal situations instantly and alerting the operator within seconds.

Once the operator acknowledges the situation he could use Equinox to inmediatly correct the problem by sending an order through the communication link, so the device will go back to work in a second. No crew is needed, no money and time is spent in the process.

Besides the operator doesn’t need to be in the central office to be alerted from abnormal situations, Equinox will alert him through text messages and emails. And since our product is 100% web access you could easily login from any mobile device, such smartphones, tablets, notebooks, etc. You only need an Internet connection and a browser.

The use of our product brings them new advantages including:

  • Brand interoperability

    Connect to multiple devices even if they are of different brands.

    Result

    Consolidate information from different sources on a single platform.
  • Real-time data

    Get instant information from all the important devices in the production process: their status, alerts, temperature levels, pressure, flow, etc. You can control these devices as well by changing their operating parameters.

    Results

    Real-time data helps in the decision-making process and reduces operating costs.
  • Reliability of the production process

    Equinox detects early deviations from normal operating parameters and warns you before they cause problems.

    Result

    The search for faults is easier, reliability increases to levels never seen before.
  • More earnings

    As failures are detected before they occur, less money is spent on corrective maintenance, while the life expectancy of the equipment extends.

    Outcome

    Improving reliability means increasing profits.
  • Customer satisfaction

    A more reliable process translates into an end product of higher quality and lower cost.

    Result

    Customer satisfaction increases.

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