For years water and wastewater utilities have monitored scattered pumping stations with SCADA systems. But what about communities that have only one or a few pump stations and lack the resources to design, engineer and configure SCADA?Typically, such utilities have had to monitor pump stations manually, sending a driver to visit each station periodically, inspect its function and record operating data from meters or gauges.Now, GE Intelligent Platforms offers the Pump Station Appliance, which the company describes as a purpose-built control and monitoring solution that can be purchased online and configured and installed in a day by an in-house or
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An off-the-shelf appliance gives smaller water and wastewater utilities a cost-effective way to monitor pumping stations.
Aug 14, 2014
| by Ted J. Rulseh |
