Infrastructure Monitoring

Infrastructure Monitoring

IoT can play a crucial role in your Infrastructure monitoring and transform your business. Many advance technologies are much cheaper to deploy today as compared to a few years ago. As a result of this, organisations are transforming themselves by enabling IoT. In the past, businesses relied heavily on human resources to carry out infrastructure monitoring. For example, in an Industrial plant, regular checks and audits were carried out to ensure that there are no toxic gas leaks or the facilities maintained right level of heating and temperatures at all times.

A lot of these tasks are now automated by deploying sensors that detect, collect data and take appropriate actions, such as informing facility managers if there is a gas leak or if the air quality has deteriorated in a part of an estate in real time. Not only is this much more efficient but also relatively cheaper than using human resources to carry out such tasks. If you still rely on human intervention to monitor your estate or critical infrastructure, it is the right time to think about automating infrastructure monitoring by adopting IoT.

What Processes Can Be Automated

Opportunities are endless. Pretty much anything that you monitor today can be automated via the digital transformation but here are some of the ideas to start with –

Process

Opportunities

 

 

Health and Safety

 

 

·         Temperature Monitoring

·         Air Quality Monitoring

·         Toxic Gas Monitoring

·         Sensors to geofence dangerous equipment

 

HVAC ( Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning)

 

·         HVAC optimisation opportunities by using temperature, humidity and motion sensors

 

Light Controls

 

·         Electricity consumption optimisation in any estate such as office, school, residential building etc.

 

Water Quality Monitoring

 

·         Measure soil/water temperature, pH levels, dissolved oxygen levels, Ion monitoring etc.

 

Farming

 

·         Temperature, leaf wetness,

·         Ultrasound, solar radiation,

·         Soil moisture & temperature monitoring

 

Noise Control

 

·         Noise / sound level monitoring in smart cities

 

Security

 

·         Presence Detection and Proximity measurement

How to Start With Automation

The first step is to identify your business objectives. What are some of the areas of your business that would benefit from implementing automation? It may make sense to start with one business objective and run a proof of concept first. In the automation journey, you will have to figure out what the right analytical tools, cloud platforms, sensors and gateways are for your industry. Also, moving from legacy systems and processes can be overwhelming since you have little or no clue how the new system will work. You may also need to consider how your manpower will operate and take decision in new technological environment, which may be challenging if you have never experienced automation and advance technological systems before.

Overall, the journey may seem challenging but is bound to be an interesting one. Once you have completed your first PoC, you will be amazed to see how fast and efficient this new technology can be as compared to your conventional strategy.

Ready to Take First Steps ?

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