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  • Kuva’s continuous methane monitoring platform, for monitoring those intermittent emissions where 70% of volume comes from only 2% of assets.


We provide innovative, comprehensive and flexible solutions for the connected world by listening to our customers, partners, and employees, utilizing our design and technical excellence, and creating a culture where employees develop and grow. Our technologies include Cellular, LoRaWAN and Cloud Device Management.

Cellular Modems, Routers, Bridges, Gateway’s,

& Edge Compute 


Modbus-RTU to mqtt field adapter

Reonix Technologies    www.scadadroid.com

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SCADADroid is a novel piece of hardware that can MQTT-enable any device that speaks Modbus. You really don't even need a Modbus device, you can just use any of the Discrete or Analog Inputs. The big significance however, is "no programming required".

  • OpenVPN client; secure connections for remotely programming PLC's, etc.

  • Routing and Port Forwarding

  • Alarm notification - voice, SMS and email

  • Notification phone book with groups and shift changes, and holidays

  • Alarm escalation policies

  • Remote acknowledgement with audit trail

  • Process variable trend window

  • Alarm history dashboard

  • Use your existing radio network with the cellular as redundancy

  • Generate reports as pdf, csv or json

  • Distribute reports via email

  • Onboard historization of all process variable changes (datalogging)

  • Remote control of Discrete Output, and/or condition based.

  • Create conditional logic with Event Composer

  • Live Tag Viewer

     Visit www.scadadroid.com to learn more


Solexy Wireless   www.solexy.net

SOLEXY Wireless provides innovative I.S. solutions providing safe, cost effective application of RF/WiFi and Ethernet in hazardous locations eliminating the need for costly labor, poured seals, drains, ex-proof conduit, coax and antennas.  Primary industries are refineries, oil and gas rigs, chemical plants and mines.  Visit www.solexy.net to learn more.


areas of Experience & Expertise

SCADA Hosts

Though Wonderware was our entry point to SCADA in the mid 1990's, it was really ClearSCADA in the mid 2000's that created such a broad knowledge base as market penetration began.  Forging a position in a new market against the majors like Wonderware, Cygent, iFix, RSView, Telvent, Citect, WinnCC, and other smaller players allowed great exposure to a new level of intellect in the O&G sector that encompassed field level telemetry topologies, back office integration requirements, redundancy, data reliability, efficiencies of data aggregation, alarm management, and multiple discipline domain delivery of data.  Design influence and coaching of system topology has always been a significant contributor to SCADA system success.

system integration

Without a good SI to facilitate assembly of the system components, they remain isolated and inefficient.  Having strong SI's as part of our career path, we understand the value of every size SI, from 2 guys a truck and a dog to those staffed with 1,000+ engineers capable of delivering compressor stations and gas plants as a turnkey offer.

  

instrumentation 

Wired and wireless instrumentation has been a career theme where we carry a lot of experience.  Pressure, temperature, tank level, a variety of primary technologies of gas and liquid flow measurement; both custody and non-custody transfer.

artificial lift

Since the mid-2000's when the CBM market softened and shale gas created a revolution, there have been great advances in the artificial lift market place.  Traditional EFM/RTU's became enhanced with applications such as plunger lift optimization and gas lift where almost no code was written and the average field tech could commission an entire well pad.  Prior to this PCS, Ferguson Beauregard and a dozen other dedicated controller manufacturers commanded this market and would connect serially to an EFM for rate.  The advent of combined full function controllers such as ABB, Emerson, SchneiderElectric, Thermo and others have driven efficiencies to an all time high which worked out well for the lean period beginning 2014.  As the market turned again softening the NGL market, the price of oil hit record highs which drove the necessity of more elaborate Rod Pump Control (RPC) using more efficient and cost effective VFD's which drove further improved efficiencies in this realm of artificail lift. 

field automation

Many years spent launching the SCADAPack to local and domestic markets provided a strong yet diverse competitive knowledge base of market players such as Emerson ROC/FloBoss, ABB TotalFlow, Thermo Flow Automation, Rockwell, Yokogawa, Modicon, IDEC, Dynamic Flow Computer, QLogix by FlowData (now Lavoro Tech) and others.

WIreless Sensor networks & lpwan

We have a strong background in the competitive landscape of wireless for last mile(s) and traditional local field instrument networks with both proprietary and standards based instruments such as 802.15.4 subsets, and WiHart/ISA100.

In recent years the acceptance of LPWAN’s (Low Power Wide Area Networks), both cellular and non-cellular based, have changed to landscape to encompass most any process variable, at any price point. You can learn more about LPWAN’s here.


product and Channel advisory

Business Development | Sales Leadership | Channel Selection | Go To Market Strategy 

Gap Analysis | Competitive Analysis | Offer Messaging

IoT/IioT, SCADA & Field Automation Consulting

Assessment of Your Current Situation | IoT - SCADA System Architecture | Field Automation Strategy | Wellsite & Tank Battery Modernization

Remote Asset CyberSecurity NERC/CIP | Considerations for Wireless Instrumented Well-sites


 
Where you will be in 1, 3 or 5 years is a choice.
Will it be yours, or someone else’s?
— Robert Ward
 
 

 
 

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