Today’s water industry leaders are searching for smarter solutions to drive efficiency and innovation.
For many plants, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is the answer, providing deeper operational insights that power greater uptime, site automation, and real-time performance management. FreeWave enables water utilities to take advantage of these opportunities, today.
FreeWave’s wireless networking solutions are proven at reliably connecting diverse water utilities assets from basins to pump stations, water tanks, and more — all across expansive, rugged areas. Now, we’re enhancing that connectivity through our IQ-infused offerings which add edge computing for data processing at the source, where these assets physically reside.
Our edge computer and edge intelligent radios can be used to rapidly upgrade existing SCADA systems with IIoT capabilities at a fraction of the cost to replace PLCs or RTUs already in the field. Edge processing can free up 80% or more of existing bandwidth, allowing plants to immediately get more data from the same devices and with much lower latency than typical poll-response topologies.
Save multiple man days per month by replacing manual tank inspections with automated remote tank monitoring, which provides anywhere access to real-time tank levels, 24/7/365.
Trigger pumps to run at off-peak energy hours, which can result in up to $30,000 savings per year in energy costs.
Move from a poll-response to publish/subscribe architecture to reduce bandwidth consumption by 80% to 95% while gaining near real-time response times.
Remotely monitor chemical levels and set automated triggers to alert the plant to leaks, isolate chemicals, and trace the source of issues.
Reduce maintenance costs by 10% to 40% using edge applications that enable the prediction of asset performance and failures.
Automate the process of testing drinking water for bacteria and other potential contaminants.
Rapidly add a ‘smart layer’ to your existing SCADA system to gain secure plug-and-play scalability not tied to proprietary protocols and processes, as well as access to new, invaluable operational data previously left stranded in the field.
FreeWave creates wireless M2M system that spans 100+ miles in linear length for the St. George Water Services Department.
Water and sanitation district streamlines monitoring and control with FreeWave wireless communications network.
Modernize your industrial edge, today.
Together, FreeWave and Inductive Automation will transform your poll-response topology into a modern, bandwidth-efficient publish/subscribe architecture – rapidly enhancing the investments you already have.