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The Pinebrook Water District reservoir lies in the hills northwest of Boulder, Colo.

Flexible, Low-Cost Water Monitoring with Edge I/O

Remote I/O over MQTT helps Rust Automation deploy affordable remote monitoring in a challenging environment.

To avoid overwhelming operators at the Tres Rios Water Reclamation Facility with too much data, the graphical presentation of control data on the upgraded HMI/SCADA system is based on situational awareness principles, including simplicity and a limited use of color. Source: Aveva

A Preference for Grayscale HMIs

Vega’s Greg Tischler demonstrates the effects of heat in the atmosphere on both radar and ultrasonic technologies.

Radar Overcomes Price Constraints for Water/Wastewater Industry

Aaron Hand

IIoT Enables Next-Level Remote Asset Monitoring

Beth Stackpole, contributing writer

The Cost and Safety Benefits of Automated Water Management

A look at how automation is reducing costs while improving safety for unconventional natural gas production in the Permian Basin.

TrendMiner 2019.R3 introduces a “production cockpit” that provides multiple ways to visualize and track plant production.

Production Cockpit Analytics Software

TrendMiner 2019.R3 introduces a “production cockpit” that provides the processing engineer multiple ways to visualize and track plant production.

In addition to implementing a new DCS platform from Rockwell Automation, the City of Lima’s wastewater treatment plant rebuilt physical components, such as the headworks system that diverts water at the beginning of the sanitation process.

DCS Streamlines Monitoring, Costs and Training at Wastewater Plant

Grant Gerke

After Lima, Ohio, migrated its wastewater plant to a distributed control system, the city increased its water capacity, met updated regulations, improved training and reduced ...

Water Utility Reduces Enterprise Complexity

Grant Gerke

A large water/wastewater utility adds application platforms to better manage growing plant complexity, relying on a fault-tolerant server to host the multiple platforms.

To Embrace Digital, Water Needs to Tackle Fundamentals

Aaron Hand

David St. Pierre, with a background in process control, moved from oil refineries to water utilities in 1986. The difference was night and day. More than 30 years later, he still...

Cybersecurity Lessons From Critical Infrastructure

Michael Belfiore

Cyber attacks and threats against power plants and grids, water/wastewater facilities and transportation networks are on the rise. What is being done to improve cybersecurity ...

Managing Water: IIoT App Supports Sustainable Farming

Aaron Hand

SCADAfarm—a cloud-based system built by WaterForce and Schneider Electric on Microsoft Azure—helps farmers monitor and control their irrigation and wastewater, saving resources...

Products

18-Port Gigabit Ethernet Managed PoE+ and Non-PoE Switches

Antaira Technologies, LLC

The LMP-1802G-SFP and LMX-1802G-SFP Series from Antaira are aimed at edge-level networking applications in harsh and outdoor environments.

Hardness Analyzer for Drinking and Process Water

Endress+Hauser

The Liquiline System CA80HA from Endress+Hauser helps optimize the control of water softening processes such as ion exchange or reverse osmosis, ensures quality of products influenced...