Effluent Alert Notification System
Project Overview
An environmental engineer for a large chemical manufacturer needed a wireless solution to provide real-time water quality information on a remote factory’s effluent. The company had previously employed field technicians to check effluent water quality manually by visiting the remote site, collecting the data, and reporting their findings using written charts.
Retrieving and analyzing data would often take more than a month. With the switch to a NexSens wireless data logging solution, the company has realized an immediate and significant improvement in operational efficiency and time savings.
System Description
The effluent alert notification system includes a NexSens 3100-iSIC cellular data logger at the effluent site. Connected to the data logger is a YSI 600 OMS optical turbidity sonde with temperature and conductivity probes. At fixed intervals throughout the day, the NexSens data logger will notify the YSI sonde to take a water quality reading.
The data is sent via a cellular network to the environmental engineer's office PC, where data can be viewed in real time with NexSens iChart software. iChart is configured to alert the engineer's cell phone if the water quality readings exceed regulation, eliminating the need for someone to continuously monitor the data.
This NexSens cellular notification system vigilantly keeps watch over the effluent, increasing plant efficiency, as well as saving time, money, and manpower.
Customer Testimonial
“The 24/7 information that we can access with our wireless system is invaluable. Not only can we easily monitor and manage our effluent water quality, we can also access critical real-time data to help maintain our permit compliance. NexSens has been an excellent partner, helping us through every step of the wireless technology adoption, with the end result of making our company more efficient and better equipped. In addition, we were pleased that NexSens implemented a special SMS messaging capability to provide real-time data and alarm notification on our cellular phones.”
-Environmental Engineer
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