Remote Monitoring Use Cases

Every remote site has equipment that has to stay online, and most of those sites are too far away to check in person on any regular basis. Remote monitoring closes that gap. A Remote Terminal Unit (RTU) at the site watches power, environment, and equipment status, then reports back to your central office the moment something moves outside safe limits. You find out before a small problem becomes an outage, and before you send a technician on a long drive that may not have been necessary.

We have built more than 172,800 monitoring devices for over 1,500 organizations since 1986. The supporting infrastructure we protect stays consistent across industries: power plants, environmental control, equipment alarms, and site access. Browse the use cases below by what you need to monitor.

Power and Battery Monitoring

• Remote power monitoring: Track an entire site power chain from a single unit.
• Battery voltage monitoring: Get early warning of capacity loss before a backup plant fails under load.
• Rectifier monitoring: Catch degrading alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC) conversion before it affects the load.
• UPS monitoring: Watch the Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) units that bridge power transitions.

Environmental and Facility Monitoring

• Remote environmental monitoring: Temperature, humidity, water, and smoke detection for unmanned sites.
• Server room monitoring: Temperature, humidity, and water alerts for IT spaces.
• Data center remote monitoring: Facility-wide environmental and power visibility.
• Equipment shelter monitoring: Protection for outdoor huts and cabinets.
• Remote HVAC monitoring: Verify that Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) is actually running, not just powered on.
• Cold storage monitoring: Temperature assurance for refrigerated and frozen facilities.
• Healthcare environmental monitoring: Protection for vaccine refrigerators and sensitive medical equipment.

Tower and Remote Site Monitoring

• Remote cell tower monitoring: Visibility into hard-to-reach wireless sites.
• Telecom tower monitoring system: A complete monitoring approach for tower infrastructure.
• County tower monitoring: Shared radio site monitoring for county and municipal agencies.

Public Safety and Government Monitoring

• 911 infrastructure monitoring: Coverage for Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) and dispatch sites.
• Emergency communications monitoring: Protection for first responder radio systems.
• Public safety remote monitoring: Broader public safety network programs.
• Government remote monitoring: Monitoring for federal, state, and local agency infrastructure.

Protocol Integration and Equipment Replacement

• SNMP converter: Bring contact closures and serial gear into a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) manager.
• Modbus to SNMP converter: Integrate generator and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) devices.
• Multiprotocol alarm aggregation: Consolidate alarms from many protocols and third-party gear into one master station.
• Discontinued equipment replacement: Drop-in compatible options when a manufacturer stops supporting your units.

Monitoring by Industry

• Electric cooperatives: Substation and rural power network monitoring.
• Energy and utility monitoring: Distribution, substation, and SCADA endpoint visibility.
• Oil and gas remote monitoring: Remote field and pipeline site monitoring.
• Rural telephone companies: Monitoring built for independent and rural telcos.
• Regional ISPs: Network monitoring for fiber and broadband Internet Service Providers (ISPs).
• Telecom SCADA monitoring: SCADA-based monitoring for telecom networks.
• Railroad track monitoring: Remote monitoring for rail infrastructure.

Not Sure Which Applies to Your Sites?

Most networks span several of these use cases at once, and our engineers can help you map your equipment to the right monitoring approach. Tell us what you are trying to accomplish and we will work out a solution that fits.

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