Case Studies:
Power Generator Monitoring- Large Canadian Entity
The Brief
A Canadian corporation experienced disruptions as a direct result of power generators that would not start when needed. The customer wanted to leverage IoT to monitor the performance of their power generators to ensure that they would start when required. Correspondingly, the company also wanted to identify any faults in real time in order to maintain the health of assets proactively.
The Solution
- Integrated power generators with an IOT Gateway to capture critical electrical and engine data to the Cloud for near-real monitoring of key parameters.
- The solution is able to capture automatic transfer switch data.
- The solution provides high-frequency data sampling for the data logging functionality.
- The solution allows for remote troubleshooting and improved response to any alarms through predetermined alarms.
Highlights
- Improved power delivery and increased life expectancy of assets.
- Ensured availability of power generators when needed.
- Rapid return on Investment.
- High availability.
Critical Infrastructure Monitoring – Technical Building.
The Brief
The technical building of a leading Enterprise is housing mission-critical equipment. Hence, a continued conducive environment for the equipment, availability of power and optimizing the cost of operations is of paramount importance
The Solution
- 24×7 monitoring to ensure both AC Power and DC Power
- Monitoring of batteries, including electrolyte level and temperature
- Monitoring of a large number of filters to ensure those are not clogged.
- Temperature, humidity, Co2 and water leakage monitoring.
Highlights
- Ensured high availability.
- Facilitated timely action as any issue arises.
- Usage-based monitoring of filers, instead of time-based replacement, optimizes cost.
- A conducive environment enhances the life of the asset.
Energy Systems Monitoring – Media Enterprise
The Brief
A leading Canadian entity needed to monitor the energy usage of various critical assets, energy generation from Solar Power Systems, and power exchange with Grid.
The Solution
- Sub-metering for key infrastructure components to monitor and capture electricity usage data at individual component levels.
- Measuring energy generation, energy export to the Grid, and energy import from the Grid.
- Deployed IoT Gateway, integrated meters, and solar infrastructure to capture and transmit data.
- Commissioning, testing, and validation to align data requirements.
- Secure transmission of data to the Cloud.
Highlight
- Ability to monitor the continued supply of power to critical infrastructure, thereby resulting in high availability.
- Provision of valuable data for decision-making.
- Better accounting of energy generation, as well as export to and import from the Grid.
- Enhanced operational efficiency.
People Counting – Retail Chains
The Brief
A retail company wanted an automated occupancy solution to measure customer traffic and implement effective marketing plans. This client also sought to ensure that employee count was not included in the footfall analysis so that pure customer traffic could be analyzed.
The Solution
- People Counting solution, which captures people counting data with more than 98% accuracy.
- The IoT Gateway has captured people count using an advanced stereoscopic camera and transmits the data to the Cloud for further analysis and visualization.
- An employee exclusion system is implemented to conduct analyses based purely on customer traffic.
Highlights
- Ability to better manage store traffic in an effective manner.
- Enhanced marketing activities through useful analytics.
- Resource optimization based on projected traffic levels.
- Future enhancements to include dwell time, turn-in rates, and queue counting.