Category Archives: Water/Wastewater

Problem: We have a municipal customer that wanted to go wireless with cellular interface for all of their remote pump stations. Solution:  PJ Kortens put together a system with Cradlepoint cellular adapters and Allen Bradley Compact Logix processors.  With this system they get full local and remote system monitoring and control. Information is linked back through […]

    We put together secure remote access  solutions for our customers.   Shown here is one of our recent applications. The Village of Grand Chute wanted the ability to see their water distribution system through portable tablets. We worked with them to come up with an affordable and secure solution. The village purchased several […]

Case Study:  Radio telemetry, a test of time Customer: Iron Mt, Mi Water Dept Radio Type:   900 MHz MDS INET Series unlicensed radios. Problem: A municipal water customer in Iron Mountain, MI requested a solution for cost savings with their data telemetry system.  Rising dedicated phone line expenses between the master and 6 remote sites […]

Problem:  Grenville sanitary district requires remote monitoring of operation from smart phones and or Tablets. Operators need to be able to view system, acknowledge alarms, change settings remotely. Observations: Current Control systems includes 2 RsView SE Site edition computers for operation control, Win-911 software for alarm monitoring and notification, Allen Bradley PLC’s, and MDS Ethernet […]

Case Study:  Lift Station Pump High Energy Costs Customer:  Greenville Sanitary District PLC Type:   SLC 5/04 Drive Type:  Powerflex 750 Problem:  Customer was having trouble with frequent starts on a lift station pump causing high energy costs.  The customer requested that we look at the call to run for the pump to find a solution […]