Treatment, pumping and distribution
Water & wastewater
Water systems are geographically distributed, largely unmanned, and subject to compliance reporting. The engineering challenge is remote reliability: assets in places with no staff, no reliable power and no dependable connectivity, that must nevertheless be controllable and evidenced.
What goes wrong
Typical problems in water & wastewater
If more than two of these are familiar, there is a first project here worth doing.
- 01
Pumping stations checked by physical visit
- 02
Failures discovered through overflow or supply complaints
- 03
Compliance data compiled manually from logbooks
- 04
Chemical dosing adjusted by hand and by judgement
- 05
Energy is a dominant cost with no per-asset attribution
What we build
Solutions for water & wastewater
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Remote telemetry and control
Levels, flows, pressures, pump status and faults reported continuously from distributed sites, with supervisory control where appropriate.
- 02
Treatment plant automation
ETP and STP control including dosing, aeration and sludge handling, with sequencing and interlocks.
- 03
Compliance monitoring and reporting
Continuous quality parameter logging with automatic report generation and an auditable record.
- 04
Pump efficiency and condition
Energy per volume pumped, plus vibration and temperature trending on critical pump sets.
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Leak and anomaly detection
Flow-balance analysis across the network to identify losses that a periodic audit would not find.
Technology
What is typically involved
- Level, flow, pressure and analytical instrumentation
- PLC and RTU control at distributed sites
- Cellular and radio telemetry with local buffering
- SCADA with alarm management and escalation
- Solar and battery power at remote installations
- Automated compliance reporting
Outcomes
What changes
Described rather than quantified — we do not publish numbers we have not measured for you.
- Distributed asset status visible continuously
- Failures alerted before they become service incidents
- Compliance reporting produced from continuous data
- Energy per volume pumped measured and improvable
- Losses detected through flow reconciliation
Capabilities
Most relevant here
- SCADA DevelopmentSCADA design, implementation, migration and integration.
- Industrial AutomationControl system design, panel engineering, machine and line automation.
- Industrial IoTGet data off your machines — existing PLCs, new sensors, or both.
- Edge Computing & GatewaysIndustrial gateways, protocol conversion and processing at the plant.
- Predictive MaintenanceCondition monitoring and early warning on critical assets.
Questions
Water & Wastewater — common questions
Can remote sites work without mains power?
Yes. Solar with battery backup is standard for remote telemetry installations, and the instrumentation and RTU are specified for the available power budget. The design constraint is usually how often data is transmitted, which is a trade-off we size explicitly rather than assume.
Can this run an ETP or STP automatically?
Automation of dosing, aeration and sludge handling is well established and reduces the variation that comes from manual adjustment. Full unattended operation depends on the process, the variability of the incoming load and the regulatory position, and we are direct about what should remain supervised.
Tell us about your water & wastewater plant
What runs on your floor, and what you cannot currently answer. We will tell you what is readable today and what a first phase would involve.