Water Monitoring - Project Examples

Water Monitoring

Project Examples

This document provides a brief summary of VRT System's experience in the provision and support of (waste) water monitoring systems at distribution and reticulation levels over an approximate 25 year period. It also covers the range of technologies employed over this period and comments on those of the future (based on IoT technologies).

 

Project

Owner

Date

Technology – Data Network

Comment

Reticulation Summary

 

 

 

 

Residential

 

 

 

 

Barangaroo R8&R9

LendLease

2015-2016

Pulse, Mbus, datalogger, serial, ethernet, internet, EMS (SQL), IoT Gateways, cloud, BYOD browser displays (Australian first)

6 Greenstar, Australian first, Integrated with power metering, CETA EMS, VRT WideSky,

Commercial

 

 

 

 

Many incl. Enoggera, Greenbank, Wide Bay,

Dept. of Defence

2005-2016

Pulse, datalogger, input via power meter, serial, ethernet, via BMS,

IoT Gateways,

Integrated with power metering, VRT RUMS EMS, VRT WideSky Gateways.

180 Brisbane

Daisho

2015-2016

Via BMS integration, live foyer displays

Integrated with power metering, CETA EMS,

Gasworks Brisbane

FKP

2014-2015

Via BMS integration,

Integrated with power metering, CETA EMS,

The Pavilion, RNA Redevelopment, Brisbane

LendLease

2014-2015

Via BMS integration,

Integrated with power metering, CETA EMS,

Orion Shopping Centre, Springfield

MIRVAC

2014-2015

Pulse, input via power meter, serial, ethernet, via BMS,

Integrated with power metering, CETA EMS,

Precinct/Campus

 

 

 

 

Many incl. Enoggera, Greenbank, Wide Bay, Edinburgh (SA) + approx. 6 others

Dept. of Defence

2005-2016

Pulse, datalogger, 3G,

IoT Gateways,

> 1,000 meters to date, target > 3,000, Integrated with power metering, VRT RUMS EMS, VRT WideSky Gateways.

Logan Campus

John Paul College

2010-2016

Pulse, Waveness mesh wireless network, serial, ethernet,

IoT Gateways,

Integrated with power metering, CETA EMS, VRT WideSky Gateways.

Aspire Schools (x10)

Qld Dept of Education

2008-2011

Pulse, Waveness mesh wireless network, serial, ethernet,

IoT Gateways,

Integrated with power metering, VRT WideSky Gateways, web server.

St Lucia Campus

University of Queensland

2012-2016

Integration with existing wireless mesh network, integration with site-wide BMS

> 450 meters to date, target > 1,200, Integrated with power metering, CETA EMS, VRT WideSky Gateways, on-line CoP calculations for chillers.

Barangaroo Precinct

Living Utilities (LendLease)

2015-2016

Precinct wide fibre optic network, integration with VRT WideSky Gateways, integration with Schneider PLC, Honeywell BMS

6 Greenstar, Australian first, VRT WideSky Management Platform, Exporting data in NEM13 format to billing system, greater than 1M readings per day, reporting and analysis via Tableau BI tools.

Distribution Summary

 

 

 

 

Cairns Waste Water

Cairns City Council

1991-2000

Kingfisher RTU, MacroView SCADA (dual redundant servers)

Remote terminals, dial-up and internet, integrated reporting (industry firsts)

Gold Coast Waste Water

Gold Coast City Council

1992-1999

Kingfisher RTU, MacroView SCADA (dual redundant servers)

Remote terminals, dial-up and internet, integrated reporting (industry firsts)

Goonyella/Riverside Water Supply

BMA

1995-2010

RTU, MacroView SCADA (dual redundant servers)

Integrated with Mine Monitoring System

 

 

 

 

 


AMR Recent Example

VRT is pleased to offer a comprehensive, compliant solution in response to the [Tender Issuer] requirements. A simplified (generalisation – not all meters and data paths are shown) of the recycled water AMR is provided below in Illustration 1: Generalised meter connection topology and data paths.

 

 

Illustration 1: Generalised meter connection topology and data paths

IoT – Future Solution Architecture

Legacy solutions (since the introduction of electronic devices) has included RTU, Telemetry (wireless and PLC – Power Line Carrier), proprietary protocols (open later), SCADA, licenced spectrum, silo solutions (e..g. water, power, environmental, all independently) etc.

The future will be based on IoT technologies due to the low cost (economies of scale), low power transmission will enable battery operated devices, unlicenced spectrum, open data protocols such as 6LoWPAN, interoperability, minimal vendor lock-in, cloud computing with secure 3rd party application development capabilities, standards based exporting to billing systems (NEM12 and NEM13), integrated analytics, open APIs and device independent web access.

The Future is Here

VRT is currently delivering such solutions based on integrated IoT devices, gateways and networks from partners such as Paradox Engineering (Switzerland), and our own WideSky IoT platform incorporating Gateway and Management Platform.

WideSky Gateways and Management Platform can be hosted in the cloud or locally in the customer's premises or data centre. An illustration of the VRT WideSky platform is presented below. More information here: http://www.widesky.cloud.


 

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