Water is one of nature’s most important gifts to mankind. Although water covers more than 70% of the Earth, only 1% of the Earth’s water is available as a source of drinking.
Telemetry is important in water management, including water quality, stream gauging functions and equipment surveillance. Nowadays, the availability and widespread use of the Internet, coupled with advances in wireless telemetry, provides the forecaster, and other users, with a powerful set of tools to obtain real time information on which to make decisions.

Unattended & Remote

The unattended and remote nature of many water management applications as river level & flow gauging, groundwater monitoring, lake and reservoir level monitoring, leak detection in distribution pipelines, sewer water monitoring, implies the need to operate from a DC power source, such as a battery.

Infinite offers maintenance free solutions for these kind of applications, based on the ADU-500 and BSC-50E autonomous RTU/data loggers. Particularly ADU-500 supports data collection from a wide range of water management related sensors, based on the SDI-12 protocol. iLOGPlus-GSM supplied from a rechargeable battery combined with a solar cell, can be applied in applications demanding more measurement channels and real time data monitoring. Both solutions combine reliability in harsh environmental conditions with the flexibility of wireless internet telemetry.

Remote control, Alerting & M2M

Uses of water include agricultural, industrial, household, recreational and environmental activities. Nowadays, automation and remote control systems are spreading among water management infrastructures, either in drinking water or irrigation water supply networks.
Infinite offers advanced remote control & alerting solutions based on the powerful SCOM-100 GSM controller. Combined with a dedicated OPC Server, SCOM-100, can be integrated in SCADA systems for water management installations, as pump houses, water treatment plants, water reservoirs, etc. Specific fault alert SMS messages can be directed to the maintenance personnel. The simple and transparent command structure of the controller facilitates the development of complicated M2M applications.