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Bespoke industrial monitoring and control solutions for facility management infrastructure, factories, plants and industrial sites

Country of Origin: Czech Republic
Reference Number: TOCZ20170120001
Publication Date: 20 January 2017

Summary

A Czech company offers solutions for continuous monitoring and control based on its proprietary software and hardware. The company is looking for design, architecture, engineering, project management consultancy agencies, and system integrators dealing with facility management interested in including the offered system in their product and services portfolios. Long-term technical cooperation and commercial agreements with technical assistance are being sought.

Description

The solution offered is aimed at solving any of the following tasks reliably, at low cost and with no disruption to existing operations:

- The client wants to incorporate Industry 4.0 principles in their operations.
- The client wants to know whether a facility is operating within the design parameters and want to see analytics.
- The client needs environmental information.
- The client wants to take immediate action in critical situations.
- The client wants to reduce staff costs for the routine operations, such as taking data readings, testing sensors, travel time to location.
- The client wants to streamline facilities management and operations.
- The client wants to upgrade an existing obsolete monitoring or data logging setup.
- The client needs to comply with facility management regulations.

The key advantages of the solution comparing with other similar continuous monitoring and control systems come from its particular modular architecture. At the core of its modules are industrial computers running BSD-based operating systems (BSD is Berkeley Software Distribution, one of the Unix operating systems) allowing for high-performance data acquisition and processing locally, advanced and complex control algorithms with a minimum of hardware and advanced secure communications with servers and user apps. Furthermore, in contrast to other solutions, field sensors and controls do not need to be internet enabled which reduces their costs and improves the security.
The system’s flexible architecture allows delivering cost-effective solutions on a wide range of scales: from monitoring a single location to a large spatially distributed site, or even geographically separated locations, which is beyond capabilities of existing similar high-performance solutions.

The key features of the system are:
1. Real time remote monitoring, data acquisition & data logging:
Voltage, current, frequency.
Active, reactive, full electrical power.
Active, reactive, full consumed energy of asymmetric loads.
Status of switches, cut-outs, safety devices.
Positions of flaps
Analogue and digital electric signals.
Air temperature, relative humidity, dew-point, wind speed/direction.
Vessel temperature, pressure, liquid level.
CO2 concentration.
Vibration/noise levels.

2. Remote control:
Complex automated control actions based on monitored parameters, such as, enabling a secondary power supply, alarm activation, motor start-up control, etc.
Sub-second response times (for local devices).
Operators can manually override or activate controls on demand, for example, in the case of planned maintenance.

3. User interface & user management:
Graphical user interface representing the controlled equipment functionality: electrical schemes or process flow.
Data reports, graphs and summaries.
Access control lists and privilege management for granular control.
Archiving/play-back of system events and user (operator) actions and commands.

The system has proven reliability, surpassing that of Industrial Internet of Things, stemming from its air navigation and airport industry pedigree.

The company is able to accommodate specific technical and business requirements of the partners and their customers. The cooperation expected is based on commercial agreement with technical assistance, when the company in cooperation with the local partner deliver the solution, install the system and train the staff or on the technical cooperation agreement when the company together with the client develop turn-key solution according to the client’s needs.

Advantages and Innovations

The key benefits of the monitoring & control system are:
- Bespoke design for each individual use case.
- The system can be retrofitted on top of the existing equipment. Individual modules can be interfaced with existing sensors reducing the costs of installation.
- Independent & autonomous monitoring of existing process control systems.
- Suitable for spatially distributed sites or sites with remote locations thanks to the modular architecture.
- Advanced capabilities with minimal costs of sensors and control hardware due to the use of industrial computers.
- Detection of equipment faults at early stages.
- Power consumption optimisation.
- Advanced secure communication.
- Active network monitoring, data delivery verification, data-bottleneck redundancy – no data is lost.

Industrial computers with BSD-based operating systems, which are at the core of the each module, provide the next generation capabilities while reducing the amount of hardware required to perform a given task, since PLCs (PLC – Programmable Logic Controllers) could be eliminated from the setup. Hence, reducing the footprint and cost of installation the system can be integrated into larger enterprise management software through the available interfaces.

Stage Of Development

Already on the market

Requested partner

Type of partner sought: design, architecture, engineering, project management consultancy companies, and system integrators dealing with facility management interested in including the offered system in their product and services portfolios.

Cooperation expected:
In the case of commercial agreement with technical assistance the company, in cooperation with the local partner, will deliver the solution, install the system and train staff.
In the case of technical cooperation agreement, the company together with the client develop turnkey solutions according to their client’s needs.

Cooperation offer is closed for requests