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Empower a Remote Asset Monitoring System for Protecting Your Highly-Valued Equipment

The oil and gas industry is incredibly huge and lucrative. It spans the globe, drilling on land and sea, and spurs worldwide competition between nations. But it also relies upon each of its parts - wells, rigs, compressors, tanks, and rectifiers. It's an industry whose worth is measured in the trillions but whose fortune comes down to protecting individual pieces of equipment. That's why remote asset monitoring is...

RTU Troubleshooting for an Effective SCADA System

SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems are powerful tools. They provide central office technicians, dispatchers, and managers with the ability to see a company's entire physical footprint. As information flows from the company's widespread locations up the network into the central office, so too can your command flow down from the office to the branches. Why send a technician out to an overheating equipment room 150...

How to Reduce Your Warehouse Security System Cost by Eliminating the Middleman

In a sprawling national economy, warehouses dot the landscape across densely urban areas and far-flung remote locations. But no matter where they are, they need security. They need to be monitored around the clock. There are too many things - accidental and intentional - that can go wrong. If you're looking to monitor a remote station, your warehouse security system cost is going to be both mission-critical and expensive. This...

5 Industrial Hurricane Preparedness Strategies for Remotely Monitoring and Controlling Your Equipment

What's the point of a train? To connect distant locations. So, naturally, railways sprawl. Some cover millions of miles of track, trains, stations, telecommunications equipment, and more. A million miles is a lot to follow. So, it's easy to start losing track, and monitoring all of it can become challenging. Those dozens, thousands, or millions of miles of track and infrastructure travel through the real world where...

Finding the Best Modbus Communication Protocol Device for Converting to SNMP

The telecom industry is all about connections. Users of telecom products - i.e. basically everyone - use them to connect to friends and family, clients and colleagues, and to connect those in need with those who can help. Telecom is vital. But if you're in the industry, you know that connections have to extend to all your remote equipment. You need to monitor your remote sites...

Top Remote Monitoring Railway Technology Trends for 2020

As we prepare to broach a new decade, the rail industry is readying itself to achieve continued growth and meet the demands of the modern era. As infrastructure ages and technology advances, rail companies must leverage existing methods and develop new means of meeting the challenges of tomorrow. To accomplish this, rail companies must anticipate what the coming decade will mean for their business and lay the...

Effective Remote Monitoring in Your Security Architecture and Design

The first thing you ever designed with a security architecture may not have been too complicated. It was probably a clubhouse or tree fort, and the security consisted of a sign that said: "Keep Out". Maybe it had a skull and crossbones if you really wanted to secure the place. That's how people knew you weren't fooling around. Well, as the cost and importance of the facility...

Implementing Effective Forest Fire Detection Sensors to Aid in Wildfire Management

Every day, somewhere in the world, a wildfire is burning. That's ok - it's supposed to. Wildfires, including forest fires, have been burning for millennia. Forests, rangeland, prairies, and even swamps have adapted to fires over millions of years. They usually stand to benefit from fire, which removes decadent growth, creates a network of diverse micro-ecosystems, and fertilizes the soil with potash and potassium, among other beneficial effects. Wait!...

Critical SCADA System Architecture Recommendations for Water Utilities

If someone asked you what the most important development for all of civilization is, modern water utility service should top the list. Sure, agriculture is good, and the internet is hit and miss, but water utilities take away dirty water and bring us clean water, preventing diseases that have scourged humanity for literally our entire existence. Needless to say, protecting water utilities is of utmost importance. They are...

Hurricane Monitoring System Strategies for Remote Equipment Observation and Automated Alerts

As hurricane season approaches, are we ever really prepared? TheNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts a 40% chanceof a near-normal hurricane season in 2019 and a 30% chance of an above-normal season. Already, Louisiana has felt the effects. The difficulties faced by companies with large geographic footprints and many remote unmanned sites are multiplied by the onslaught of hurricane season. Even relatively nearby operations become effectively "remote"...