Solution involved getting communications with assets at each station to enable near real-time monitoring to know volumes and keep on top of consumption rates for appropriate measures and increased safety for their personnel and end customers; ensuring proper supply and volumes to meet always changing demand and needs.

Emerson provided complete training and on-boarding with live, human 24/7 support if any questions arise by end users, at anytime.

IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) platform with SaaS (Software as a Service) was quickly budget approved with low-cost monthly charge instead of initial unattainable giant project cost. This also enabled the company to scale for it’s initial, most critical needs and grow to additional assets over time as budgeting allowed for even more monitoring and in some cases control of remotely located assets.

With the new ability to monitor stations volumes from anywhere has begin to free the staff from constant trips to site to focus on more pressing matters and their core business improvements and efficiencies, while providing the best end customer experience possible. Risks where significantly reduced with only needing to go to site for scheduled or preventative maintenance while avoiding volume correction
and supply concerns.

Alarms were easily set for several critical thresholds and set-points and based on authorized users status and role for volumes and other managed knowledge needs.  

Now they can easily see visualized trends from analyze data for flow
and volume and know exactly when more gas is required in the pipeline.