• Overview
• Process Monitoring
• Condition Monitoring
• Asset Management
• Environmental, Health & Safety Monitoring
• Energy Management

Environmental, Health and Safety (EH & S) Monitoring

Regulatory constraints are tighter than ever and the burden of ensuring plant safety and environmental compliance increases year-by-year.  Wireless is an excellent way to provide comprehensive visibility into worker safety, plant emissions and regulatory compliance.  These wireless networks are typically installed in an existing facility as a separate ‘overlay’.  This way a compliance monitoring network can be installed without a plant shutdown and can be operated with zero footprint on day-to-day operations.  The unique self-organizing and self-healing attributes of a SmartMesh-enabled solution lets industrial facilities meet the 100% data availability requirements of regulatory agencies with minimal cost and disruption.

Area gas detectors:

Wireless gas detectors may be placed anywhere they are needed, anytime they are needed.  This may mean along a perimeter fence to provide early warning for local residents or a temporary deployment in a specific production unit that is undergoing an upgrade.

Water and Atmospheric Emissions:

Current means to prove compliance with EPA regulations are crude and imprecise at best.  Combine this with increasing fines and it becomes clear that wireless can pay for itself in a matter of months.  Rather than receiving a fine that assumes worst case emissions, a wireless detector can provide a minute-by-minute measurements that provide much more information to plant managers and regulators.

Safety Showers:

Regulations mandate that any safety shower activation be reported quickly to the control room.  Trenching conduit to each shower is a costly proposition, especially in hazardous areas.  Wireless is an ideal solution for complying with the regulation in a cost-effective, reliable way.

Cold Chain Compliance

The FDA is increasingly mandating full creation-to-consumer audit trails of food and pharmaceutical temperature.  Only wireless offers the flexibility and adaptability to serve this need and only self-organizing and self-healing wireless networks offer the reliability and simplicity required for widespread use.