Today an alarm arrives with no way to see the site. Someone drives out, or the team guesses. Labor is the cost they feel, and it is the cost that keeps climbing.
Cities already put cameras on buildings. The remote sites stayed blind because full time streaming cost too much. Sentry is event-based, so the same idea finally works out there.
Lift stations
Pumping stations
Tanks and wells
Well pads
Gwinnett County lift station, March 2022
Two Ways In
Depending on how you run today
Already on web SCADA
Add the visual layer, keep the control system, and measure the truck rolls you stop making.
Still on radio or phone line
Modernize without a forklift of the control system. The local PLC and the central HMI stay exactly where they are.
The Department Goals
The goals this lands against
The improvement goals utilities are already writing down, and where a picture at the site helps carry them.
The improvement goals utilities are already writing down, and where a picture at the site helps carry them.