A large hotel complex in Asia has leveraged the power of Advantech’s ADAM-6250, ADAM-6217, and ADAM-6266 modules for remote monitoring of utility systems, saving time and lowering the risk of financial losses from property damage due to undetected system failures.
The challenge
Covering a large area with many buildings, the hotel experienced monitoring challenges with its utility systems, including water towers, fire alarms, elevators, pumps, and lighting control systems. Each of these subsystems was located in various areas around the premises, and when maintenance staff needed to check system status, they had to travel from location to location. In such a large complex, the constant travel was a waste of time and resources.
The hotel also experienced delays in issue detection because of these logistical challenges. For example, the water towers on the top floor of one building overflowed on more than one occasion due to broken pipes and joints. Without sensors to detect real-time equipment conditions and an alert system, water flowed freely into electrical areas, creating short circuits. This resulted in serious property damage and financial losses.
The solution
By implementing a central monitoring and control system, with connected sensors around the premises and localised ADAM-6200 remote I/O modules, the hotel improved control and monitoring of its utilities, greatly reducing incident frequency and severity.
The hotel selected ADAM-6250, ADAM-6217, and ADAM-6266 modules due to wide temperature tolerance, support for multiple protocols used in on-premise IT systems—including Modbus TCP/IP, HTTP, SNMP and MQTT—and an auto-bypass daisy chain design, enabling handshaking among each module to ensure data transmission integrity.
The combination of these features provides the data aggregation and reliability needed by the hotel to manage utilities more efficiently. Deploying an architecture of short cable lengths and low Ethernet switch counts also reduced capital expenses.
Remote I/O IoT add-on
When moving from local network topologies to the IoT, designers must account for the use of a wide area network (WAN), either the Internet or intranets. In both cases, this creates a need for heightened cybersecurity and more capable communication protocols. It can be a challenge to integrate existing devices into an IoT deployment quickly and securely.
Many PC-based supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, and other high-level computer systems, support the OPC UA protocol. Advantech ADAM-6300 remote I/O modules are compatible out-of-the-box with a host of SCADA and other systems.
Additionally, the ADAM-6300 series is designed with an Infineon OPTIGA Trust M chip to encrypt exchanged data, protecting against facility cyber threats and exploitation so users can safely experience the conveniences of Industry 4.0 connectivity.
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Article courtesy of Advantech.
