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Similarities and Differences Between SCADA and DCS

Learn the similarities and differences between SCADA and DCS and decide which system is best for your monitoring project.

Monitoring River Levels Today: How Communities Use SCADA Systems for Early Flood Warning

There's a critical period of only 12 to 48 hours between the time a flood watch is issued before it becomes a widespread disaster and before flooding occurs. Preventing people and property from bearing the brunt of water's power is one of the chief duties of modern society. Early flood warning is a way to save lives and save property, which is why more municipalities, states, and...

Mistakes When Managing Remote Systems

Remote monitoring mistakes can prevent you from realizing the huge benefits from network alarm management and the reliability it can bring to your communications and data network. Let's take a look at these three fatal mistakes and the secrets to avoiding them.

Get Your Remote Monitoring Equipment From an OEM

If monitoring is required for your next big project, you've got to make the decision of whether or not you should turn to experts for help. Take a look at why selecting an OEM vendor is the best option if you need to deploy a remote monitoring system.

Best Practices for Remote Monitoring in Wastewater Treatment Plants

Remote monitoring helps lower risk and improve operations at wastewater treatment plants. The large physical footprint of wastewater treatment plants renders human monitoring costly and difficult. By installing remote terminal units (RTUs) at the sites of important assets, managers gain insight into the real-time equipment and environmental conditions across their network. Armed with constant knowledge of network conditions, managers can more accurately schedule maintenance, allocate resources, and...

Setting Notifications on T/Mon and Applying Them to a Monitored Device

Paging, emails and text messages take network alarm monitoring to wherever you are. Notifications via pager, email or text message is a standard feature on T/Mon. Learn how you can set notifications on T/Mon so you can get the most out of this feature.

Finding the Best Remote Monitoring System for Hydroponic Planting Media

In 1900, the population of the world was 1.6 billion. That was about a 50% jump from 100 years before. Fast-forward to today to 7.5 billion, and it's expected to reach 10 billion by 2100. While that's largely because of very positive things like disease eradication and plummeting child mortality, it also means there are a lot of mouths to feed. All of us need to...

Remote Monitoring Increases FTTH Service Reliability

Many people don't know they can and need to monitor their FTTH network. Learn how remote monitoring increases the reliability of your FTTH services.

Remote Telemetry Modules for Real-time, Effective Monitoring and Control

In controlled facilities like medical and research labs, minor differences in conditions can result in major differences in outcome. Fluctuations in temperature or humidity can spoil the production of delicate products, or invalidate the results of experiments. Preventing the loss of costly products and experiments requires constant monitoring of both primary environmental conditions, and the systems which control them. Security and recordkeeping are also critical capabilities...

Remote Monitoring Protects You Against Copper Theft

It's always important to monitor activity at your remote sites, and the ones with lots of copper are especially at risk. Learn how remote monitoring systems can help you protect your network against copper theft.