Wastewater pump stations and lift stations could be very challenging to monitor, especially if these facilities are located in hard to reach areas or remote places. Systems officers are still obliged to monitor these systems regardless of the obstacles. This is to ensure that possible problems like energy consumption pump failures, pump temperatures, and vibration specifications can be controlled in the correct manner.
To make the life of a systems operator a whole lot easier, you can integrate wastewater system automation in your operation. Automating your wastewater system will help you remotely monitor your wastewater system. While incorporating a remote monitoring system in your wastewater system has several benefits, here are some of our top picks.
What Is Wastewater Monitoring?
Monitoring wastewater quality is currently increasing in terms of importance due to enhanced requirements required by the law and because of the attempt to optimize industrial methods and processes. For those located in remote areas, the most common method used is field sampling and laboratory analyses of the water samples. Through laboratory analysis, companies can easily identify a wide range of parameters.
This can, however, be hindered by various factors. This includes costs of hiring experts, laboratory costs that limit the frequency of sampling, accessibility of the area, and travel time. While sampling is good, it only offers snapshot-like data with intervals in between. As a result, in the history of indicators, crucial information could be missing. This includes process cycles, time scales, and parameters.
Why Should You Integrate Remote Monitoring System?
Wastewater system automation, or incorporating a remote monitoring system to track the wastewater treatment facility or lift system, will make it so your team will not have to worry about the health of your system. There are companies that offer a wide range of physical, electrochemical, and optical sensors to make sure that you get the crucial information whenever and wherever you need it. As technology advances, it is crucial that you have a remote monitoring system to keep up with the latest technological demands.
With this system integrated into your wastewater facilities, it eradicates the need to go back and forth from the facility. Additionally, you can easily manage your equipment and facility as well as its processes through a wireless connection using your smartphones, desktop, tablets, and other mobile devices. Other benefits of wastewater automation or wastewater remote monitoring system include the following:
Non-Stop Remote Monitoring Protection
Wastewater system automation or remote monitoring systems, aside from being very easy to use, can work for you non-stop. When you integrate the remote monitoring system, you do not have to worry about arriving at the wastewater facility only to discover broken equipment. The system can provide you with real-time information about vital processes and equipment. This way, you are always several steps ahead of dysfunctional equipment and costly repairs. Some remote monitoring systems may include the following:
- The wastewater or lift station pump’s current status
- The number of pump cycles
- Operation’s run time hours
- Levels of wet wells
- High wet well alarms and pump failures
- AC power failures
- Generator power failures
- The temperature of the pump
- Exceedance of pump vibration
When you get notifications on your mobile device or on your mobile phone, you can see a wide range of reports, alerts, alarms, and trends in the dashboard or customized portal.
Easy to Access to the Pump Data of the Wastewater
If you are always having a problem keeping your system operators up to date and informed, then installing a wastewater automation system or remote monitoring wastewater system could solve your problem. It helps you and your system operators be on the same page in terms of wastewater system data. Some companies offer system features with a lot of options for various industries. This ranges from remote monitoring capabilities to data collection.
Easy Access to the Wastewater Pump Trend Data
One of the most effective ways to keep track of your wastewater pump system’s health is to monitor the run times of the pump for water utilities. When a system operator knows the duration and the frequency of every pump cycle, he can assist engineers in determining the status of operability of the lift station while preventing any possible issues in the system before they even happen.
BioprocessH2O is proud to offer a wide range of products and systems for your wastewater facility and plant. Using our groundbreaking wastewater automation system in your facility means being on top of the operation in the most efficient and convenient way.
