Practical Cases

Acquitrol Software Developments Ltd located in Essex, U.K. delivers professionally written industrial automation software.

As a Recognised Rockwell Automation systems integrator partner with over 20 years in controls and automation, Acquitrol skills are extensive and breadth of experience ranges from delivering detailed energy management systems to production data collection and reporting.

Working with the most technologically advanced hardware, including: ControlLogix, CompactLogix and of course Rockwell Automation PLC and PAC products, Acquitrol create highly developed software designs, and then incorporate them with Rockwell Automation SCADA and data reporting packages.

To complete their offerings, Acquitrol is now incorporating our ScadaMobile app to their automation software development services and thus they have started a configuration and set up service that will bring complete flexibility to meet customer's remote monitoring needs giving them the control wherever they are.

Gary Livermore, at Acquitrol Software Developments Ltd:

"Keeping up with technological advances is key to our success and this application we believe to be not only a great leap forward in working flexibility but essential for business development"

More info at: http://www.acquitrol.co.uk/scada.php

Based in Berthoud, Colorado, OKC Products® has been offering innovative electronic controllers since 1989. OKC Products® designs and manufactures a wide variety of wireless controllers, valves, sensors and counters for an equally wide variety of purposes in the oil and gas industry. They were looking for ways to obtain immediate real-time data from controllers located in remote areas as well as operating and monitoring them in a safe and reliable way. Our ScadaMobile product provided them with just the right tool they were looking for.

"For the Oil & Gas industry, ScadaMobile provides an unparalleled level of connectivity between remote well locations and those who manage, operate and maintain the wells. From anywhere, at any time, ScadaMobile users may check the operating status of their wells, spot potential problems and take corrective action before lost production or costly repairs result. At a time of high fuel, labor and vehicle maintenance costs, ScadaMobile allows service personnel to direct their daily activities to problem "hot spots", improving productivity and reducing cost. Easy to install and use, ScadaMobile gives the Oil & Gas industry the right tool at the right time."

Carl Fisher.
President and Chief Design Engineer of OKC Products.




http://www.okcproducts.com

June 20, 2010--ProSoft Technology announces Industrial Hotspot series of radios with SweetWilliam Automation’s ScadaMobile application for the iPhone/iPod platform. The application is designed to provide engineers with access to live process control variables, and the ability to modify this data remotely from their iPhones.

Functionally, the application creates a secure wireless interface between an iPhone device and an existing 802.11 wireless network on the plant-floor, effectively allowing an iPhone device to read Modbus TCP/IP and EtherNet/IP process control variables from Programmable Automation Controllers / Programmable Logic Controllers (PAC/PLCs) distributed throughout their plants. These live values are displayed in stylized lists and include user-established variance allowances and alarms. Engineers are able to monitor these variables in real time and make adjustments on the fly from an iPhone device.

The Wired Boat Company, located in Vancouver, Canada designs and installs shipboard automation and instrumentation. Their systems are built on reliable industrial PLCs and touch panel HMIs so that everything on board can be monitored. Engines, Generators, Electrical and Navigation Systems are integrated on a single interface for convenience, efficiency and ease of use.

The Wired Boat Company is now using ScadaMobile to make real time information collected by their systems available to customers through the iPhone. As an extension to their in.finity and in.finity+ offerings, their new i-Boat Monitoring adds a new remote functionality to their current capabilities.

The new i-Boat product is built with ScadaMobile as a basis. The Wired Boat custom built the necessary configuration files for use on their in.finity systems. No changes were required on their existing systems. Our ScadaMobile App helps The Wired Boat Co. to continue it's mission to deliver the highest quality products and services at reasonable prices, and adding features that make a difference.

More information at http://www.wiredboat.com/

Samuel Jackson, Inc. is a leading OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) serving the cotton gin industry which has over 50 years of experience in this challenging environment. They offer over 35 different products in drying, moisture restoration, measurement and online air diagnostics. And they wanted to extend their offerings still further by adding iPhone accessibility to their gins.

So they were fast at identifying the advantages of our ScadaMobile solution and they asked us to develop a customized version for them. The app we jointly developed was called Mobile Mirror.

The Mobile Mirror app places real time cotton gin production data from a Samuel Jackson Moisture Mirror IV in your pocket. Critical data like production rate, recent shift production totals, moisture measurements, and ambient weather conditions are everywhere at your disposal as if you were standing at the control console in the gin. The app uses VPN (virtual private network) for security so only authorized users will be able to view gin’s data.

In this case Scada Mobile is being used to provide information about the state and running parameters of a mini hydro plant located next to the Pyrenees base mountains, on the Spain side.

Before Scada Mobile, the customer used a web based system configured around an Omron HMI touch screen (NS series) with embedded web-server, which was connected to the internet through a GPRS router.

The customer looked for a more efficient way to be connected to his plant and consequently he tried ScadaMobile. Our solution provided him with a new light to his hydro plant because according to his own words "now I feel nearer to my facility even if I am many miles away, because unless the previous system, ScadaMobile brings almost instantly all the relevant information I want with only a single touch of an icon". The customer also told us that he is now more confident giving orders to the system (such as run/stop or set-point changes) because of ScadaMobile's essential lack of response delays.