Smart water management:
grip on pumping stations,
weirs and measuring points
Water infrastructure must continue to function. Especially during peak rainfall, high water, drought or a technical failure. But the infrastructure often consists of scattered objects, different generations of control systems, multiple suppliers and diverse communication links.
Remote helps to make pumping stations, pumps, weirs, measuring points and other water installations securely accessible, readable and manageable remotely. With industrial data acquisition, telemetry, alarm notification, Alarms & Events and remote access, you maintain a central overview and authorized engineers can look deeper into the control system when necessary.
Recognizable in daily practice?
When the control system of a pumping station or object generates a fault, this is immediately reported to the overarching management system. The notification itself is often not the problem, but the follow-up is. An authorized engineer wants to be able to look directly into the PLC, HMI, or RTU live to analyze the exact status, I/O, and control parameters.
Without the right systems, you often encounter the following challenges in practice:
Unnecessary site visits:
Is secure remote access missing? Then someone still has to physically drive to the installation for every in-depth diagnosis or software adjustment.
Scattered and fragmented data:
Measured values and fault data are stuck in different systems from various suppliers. As a result, managers lack a single central, reliable overview and a complete history.
Outdated hardware & software:
Old modems, protocols, or legacy PLCs make linking with a modern platform difficult, while replacing the entire installation is often too expensive.
Insecure external management:
External maintenance partners regularly need access to the systems, but this access is currently often not personal, temporary, or centrally manageable.
Remote creates the connection between the object in the field, the manager, the breakdown service and the existing information environment.
How can we help?
Many customers do not come to us because they are ‘looking for a router’, but because something needs to work. A machine must go online. A protocol must be read. An installation must provide data. A location must be managed remotely.
From field object to usable information
1. Unlocking existing objects
We connect to the existing PLC, RTU, controller, sensor or meter. As a result, the entire installation does not automatically have to be replaced.
2. Retrieving data and status
We retrieve the desired data locally via an industrial gateway, VPN router or edge controller. For standard and non-standard protocols, we look at what is technically required.
3. Making information available
Standard object status, fault and alarm notifications and measurement data can be passed on to the existing SCADA system or the main station. Where desired, the same data can also be made available in the Remote Portal, dashboards, Alarms & Events, a database, Azure, AWS, InfluxDB or your own software environment.
4. Managing access and control
When an engineer or maintenance partner needs access, you centrally manage who is allowed to access which location, machine or function and when.
No new silos alongside your existing systems
Water managers already work with master stations, SCADA systems, management packages, asset management software, data platforms, and vendor-specific environments.
Remote does not need to unnecessarily replace this environment.
The existing alarm philosophy, master station, and operational methods remain leading. Remote can take over or link telemetry and alarm transmission and adds managed remote access for in-depth diagnostics and control adjustments.
We form the technical connection layer between existing objects and the environment in which you want to use the information. Data can be made visible in the Remote Portal, but can also be forwarded to an existing master station, database, cloud environment, or your own software platform.
The question is not which product we want to install. The question is what information, access, and functionality you need and how we can make it reliably available.
Data for management, maintenance and energy
Making existing pumping installations smarter at Schiphol
Together with REMONDIS Smart Infra, Remote developed a Smart Controller for sewer pumping stations and de-icing installations at Schiphol.
The existing hardware in the pumping stations could remain in place. The objects were made remotely accessible and data was forwarded to the Azure environment, enabling management and further optimization based on real-time information.
This case demonstrates Remote’s strengths: preserving existing technology, adding a missing connectivity and data layer, and ensuring the solution integrates seamlessly with the operator’s software environment.
Which assets in your area do you want to connect more effectively?
Start with a single sewer pumping station, pumping installation, weir, measuring point or technical location.
Together, we look at the existing control system, the current communication connection, the device and protocol, which data you need, who should be granted access, where the data needs to go and how the solution can be scaled up later.
Next, we determine which combination of software, industrial hardware and engineering is required.
No generic product demo. First, we look at the object, the current situation and what needs to work in practice.
