Buildings remote monitoring

Location:

Ticino – Switzerland

Customer:

Undisclosed

Components:

• Industrial shields ESP32 PLC 14 4G LTE
• Adelsystem Power Supply FLEX6024A
• Signal Converters Wilktronics PT100 to 0-10V

Involved entities:

Goods purchasing, coordination, assembly, PLC programming, installation supervision, commissioning, and customer service.

PLC supply and technical support.

Clouding service provider, networking programming, and debugging.

Customer requirement

To be able to monitor from a central location, on a computer or a smartphone, the status of vital devices such as Water Pumps, Level Sensors for Wells, Gas Leakage Detectors, CO2 Detectors, Boilers and Heating Systems. Coming from several scattered residential, commercial, and institutional buildings. Heating systems and boilers also need to provide temperature readings in °C.
The transmission between each location and the central point is carried out on a 4G network, with the possibility of upgrading to 5G soon.
In case of failure, warning, or alarm from monitored devices, immediate notification shall be sent to designated smartphone/s beside the central monitoring station by push message and SMS.

Solution

The solution provided has been carried out by using “Industrial shields” ESP32 PLC 14 PLC, equipped with an additional 4G LTE Modem Module, for each one of the monitored locations.

The signal is directly sent to “Armilis Cloud” on the customer-dedicated portal, from which he has a complete overview of all the connected locations.
The tool allows one to view the live situation as well as the historical logged data. To add any kind of file to the data, such as PDFs, docs, photos, GPS information, etc. 

All the data are securely stored with the blockchain architecture. It is, therefore, impossible to modify them, and they can be retrieved as they were stored at any time.

The cloud portal allows the assignment of warnings and alarms to devices as well as designating allowed users.

The transmission operativity is also continuously monitored and in case of transmission failure due to network outage, device failure, or even lack of credit on the SIM card, an alarm is also provided.