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Case Study – IoT N8
The Trilobita IoT N8 Data data collection system was specially developed for the comprehensive monitoring and data analysis of data from water treatment equipment, waterworks and sewage plants.
For any equipment and production cell!
The low cost of IoT communication technologies and the proliferation of standards has made it possible to collect data online from virtually any equipment. As the technological possibilities are very diverse, we decided to demonstrate the possibilities through a real example.
Our professional cooperation partner: Hidrofilt Ltd.
Theoretical background
The Trilobita IoT N8 system consists of two components:
- an on-site data collection hardware unit that can receive signals from digital and analog sensors built into the equipment,
- a central server application, which receives and stores the measurement data from the data collectors, as well as makes the current and historical data visible through easy-to-use client monitors.
The central system and user interface can be used both to monitor for operational purposes of all customers of water treatment service providers and to provide information to customer professionals via restricted access screens.
The central server solution provides full data protection and the strictest access controls for customer data, both on a central server in a private cloud and deployed at the customer site.
Once the central server system is deployed, it can be continuously upgraded with the ongoing installation of data collection hardware units and the addition of built-in data collectors to containerised products.
IoT N8 data collection system physical parameters
- Physical dimensions – 30 cm x 30 cm x 15 cm
- Operating voltage – 220 V
- Uninterruptible power supply – Recommended for installations with intermittent power supply. The equipment can be ordered with internal battery.
- Maximum number of digital sensors that can be connected (MODBUS TCP/IP) – 128
- Maximum number of analogue sensors that can be connected – 8 (Additional sensors can be added with analogue expansion module).
- SIM card type – Telenor Enterprise Hipernet Active (now provided by Yettel)
- GSM antenna type – Can be placed outside of robust container e.g. GSM antenna LoRA/Z-Wave
Antenna mounting hole diameter – 8 mm - GSM antenna cable length – 3 m
Communication parameters
- Data communication standard between data logger and server – MQTT
- Data transmission frequency from data logger to server – 2 sec (default), 1 min, 15 min, 60 min
- Maximum frequency of sensor sampling within the data logger – 100 msec
Basic settings
Communication parameters
Basic settings for connection to water treatment equipment
- Pressure IN (bar) – XX110
- Pressure OUT 1 (bar) – XX111
- Pressure OUT 2 (bar) – XX112
- Transmembrane pressure – XX120
- Transmembrane pressure MIN – XX121
- Transmembrane pressure MAX – XX122
- PH IN – XX130
- PH OUT 1 – XX131
- PH OUT 2 – XX132
- Temperature IN (C°) – XX140
- Temperature OUT 1 (C°) – XX141
- Temperature OUT 2 (C°) – XX142
- Conductivity IN (µS) – XX150
- Conductivity OUT 1 (µS) – XX151
- Conductivity OUT 2 (µS) – XX152
- TDS IN – XX160
- TDS OUT 1 – XX161
- TDS OUT 2 – XX162
- Water level (%) – XX170
(XX is replaced by the process module’s identifier e.g. equipment identifier RO1, RO2, RO3. If required, these identifiers can be assigned to the PLC identifiers requested by the customer.)
We believe that every hour spent on design pays off many times over in the implementation and roll-out of our systems. Our ergonomically designed user interfaces provide our customers with a new user experience and ease of use.