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SCADA - Products & Services GE Intelligent Platforms has released Proficy Water Operations, a work process management (WPM) application specific to water/ wastewater utilities By guiding operators through procedures, WPM reduces risk and costs, improves quality and eases compliance by minimizing operator errors and tracking responses. Furthermore, to minimize the effect of a “brain drain” that many infrastructure industries will face when their expert operators soon retire, the solution captures and digitizes expert knowledge ensuring that best practices become standard operating procedures. With Proficy Water Operations, utilities can document processes, transfer institutional knowledge and drive critical consistency and predictability into the plant. The solution allows digitization of manual and automated processes with one tool across the entire facility. With documented processes and electronic standard operating procedures (eSOPs), every operator is an expert with step-by-step instructions guiding the right actions. With GE’s Water Operations solution, utility operators can also bridge the gap between operations and maintenance. When an out-of-spec event takes place in the SCADA, Water Operations can trigger a work process to interface with the computerized maintenance management system (CMMS), secure a work order number, send specific instructions including GIS location information to an operator, and facilitate the corrective action to remediate a problem. Water Operations can then close out the work order with the CMMS, whether plant or GIS centric, and record the actions taken for historical records. This reduces the need for operators making scheduled rounds and device readings, and automates the process of moving from condition detected to creating work requests and the right corrective action. Proficy Water Operations Reduces Risk by Guiding Operators Through Procedures and Emergencies The ST100 offers three different types of flow sensors to best match user applications. The fast-response FPC-style is a fast response features an integral flow conditioner and protective shroud optimized for compressed air and clean gas applications. The fast-response, general purpose FP-style features a protective shroud and is the sensor used with FCI’s VeriCal in-situ calibration option. For wet or dirty gases, or erratic flows, the unshrouded S-style facilitates easy cleaning and provides a smoothed response. ST100 series flow meters are designed for rugged environments, including service up to 850ºF (454ºC). The ST100 is agency approved for hazardous environments, including the entire instrument, the transmitter and the NEMA 4X/IP67 rated enclosure. Instrument approvals (submitted and pending) include: FM and FMc: Class 1, Division 1, hazardous locations, Groups B, C, D, E, F, G; ATEX and IECEx: Zone 1, II 2 GD Ex d IIC T4. The ST100 series thermal mass air/gas flow meter from Fluid Components International (FCI) is now available in a remote mountable configuration. Remote mount flow meters are designed for equipment crowded installations where combustible or toxic gases may be present near the transmitter’s electronics. The ST100’s remote mount transmitter, with optional digital display, can be mounted up to 1,000 feet (300 meters) away from the flow sensor using interconnecting cable. The ST100 flow meter continuously measures, displays and transmits an array of parameters. It is available with 4-20 mA analog, frequency/ pulse, alarm relays or digital bus communications such as HART, Fieldbus, Profibus or Modbus. The ST100 flow meter adapts as necessary to plants’ changing needs or desire for upgrades with a plug-in card replacement that can be changed out by plant technicians in the field, taking “never obsolete” to a whole new level. The ST100 flow meter is versatile, storing up to five calibration groups to accommodate broad flow ranges as well as differing mixtures of the same gas and multiple gases, obtaining up to 1,000:1 turndown. The optional SpectraCal Gas Equivalency calibration method lets users select and switch between 10 common gases. The ST100’s standard on-board data logger features a removable 2-GB micro-SD memory card capable of storing 21 million readings. 18 www.RemoteMagazine.com ST100 Air/Gas Flow Meter is Remote Mountable for Hazardous Locations Semaphore, a CSE Global company, has added a 32-bit CPU SCADA software module to the T-BOX line of SCADA system RTU products. The MS-CPU32X is compatible with the T-BOX MS Modular System and integrates two SHDSL highspeed modems. Based on a 505 MIPS PowerPC processor, the MS-CPU32X uses a Linux core, includes two Ethernet ports, two SHDSL modems, one RS232 and one RS485 port. Integration of Ethernet and SHDSL communications provides for cost savings compared to other RTU systems that require as many as three modules to provide similar functionality. The processor further supports up to 20 serial ports in a T-BOX MS installation. The MS-CPU32X also supports sequence-ofevents (SOE) recording with a resolution of one millisecond. Information stored with millisecond resolution can be displayed in tabular and trend chart reports as well as in SCADA screens generated by Semaphore WebForm Studio software. Millisecond resolution is also supported in alarm reports, which a T-BOX MS can send to multiple recipients via e-mail. T-BOX employs a decentralized architecture that enables the complete integration of programmable automation, alarm management, data logging and IP telemetry in a single package. The platforms leverage web technologies and push messaging via e-mail, SMS text and FTP. T-BOX systems are easy to configure and offer reduced costs versus traditional PLC and SCADA architectures. The cloud-based Netbiter remote management solution allows users to monitor and control field equipment such as power generators, wind turbines, tanks and other field applications via an office computer, laptop or smartphone. HMS is now offering the online data center, Netbiter Argos (www.netbiter.net), as a free service. By connecting a Netbiter communication gateway to the desired field equipment, it is possible to immediately log into Netbiter Argos, visualize all parameters of the field installation and control it remotely. Netbiter is a complete package for remote management consisting of three main elements. The first is the physical layer, a Netbiter gateway attached to the remote equipment which sends and receives data. The second is the Netbiter Argos data center that collects and stores the data from the field equipment. This data center offers secure storage of information and enables users to get statistics and reports on the performance of their devices. The third is secure access to data via an office computer, laptop or smartphone where users see the status of their devices and can monitor and control equipment in a graphical dashboard. Semaphore Releases New Processor with Integrated SHDSL for RTU Product Line HMS Sets Netbiter Free http://www.netbiter.net http://www.RemoteMagazine.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Remote - Summer 2012

Remote - Summer 2012
Remote Monitoring in Data Centers Progresses with Emerging DCiM Systems
Multi-Tenant Power Metering and Management
Addressing Cyber Security Vulnerabilities in the Power Grid Infrastructure
Unbreakable SCADA Security: Protecting Hydrocarbon Facilities And Pipeline Networks
Building Networks in Pakistan’s Extreme Environments Puts Remote Management to the Test
In the Flow - Water Treatment & Distribution at Super-Rimiez Plant
SCADA
Networking
Security
Onsite Power
Environmental Monitoring
Industry News
Reducing Maintenance and Energy Costs of Substations with Automation

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