Smart Infrastructure
Instrumenting the physical assets a city or utility depends on, so their condition is known continuously rather than at the next inspection.
In brief
Monitoring and control for distributed physical assets — utilities, facilities and public infrastructure.
The business challenge
Infrastructure is distributed by nature, and much of it reports nothing. Condition is established by sending someone to look, which means problems are found on a schedule rather than when they occur.
Instrumenting it is not simply a matter of adding sensors. Sites often lack reliable power and connectivity, and equipment may be decades old with no interface designed for remote reading.
Solution overview
We instrument distributed assets and connect them to systems that make their condition visible: sensor selection for the physical conditions of the site, connectivity that holds up, and monitoring that surfaces exceptions rather than raw readings.
Where equipment has no modern interface, the work includes getting a usable signal out of it without compromising its operation.
Capabilities
Asset instrumentation
Selecting and installing sensors suited to the site's physical, power and connectivity conditions.
Condition monitoring
Continuous visibility of asset state, with thresholds that flag abnormal conditions when they occur.
Facility and site systems
Monitoring and control for buildings and operational sites, integrated rather than standalone.
Integration with operational systems
Feeding infrastructure data into the maintenance and planning systems that act on it.
Business benefits
Condition known continuously
Asset state is visible between inspections rather than only during them.
Maintenance based on condition
Work can be planned against how assets are actually performing rather than a fixed calendar.
Earlier warning
Threshold alerts surface deterioration before it becomes a failure.
A record over time
Historical readings support planning and capital decisions with evidence.
How we deliver it
Site survey
We assess each site's physical conditions, available power, connectivity and the equipment to be monitored.
Instrumentation design
Sensor selection, mounting, power and connectivity approach specified per site type.
Install and integrate
Installation, commissioning and connection to the monitoring platform and existing systems.
Operate and extend
Ongoing support, with coverage extended to further sites as the programme develops.
Technology architecture
Infrastructure deployments have to tolerate sites that lose power or connectivity. The layering below assumes intermittent links rather than a reliable network.
Sensor and field layer
Instrumentation at the asset, specified for the physical and power conditions present.
Connectivity layer
The link from site to platform, chosen for coverage and designed to buffer when it drops.
Monitoring platform
Ingestion, retention, thresholds and alerting across all instrumented sites.
Operational integration
Interfaces into maintenance, planning and reporting systems.
Relevant industries
- Utilities
- Energy
- Government
- Manufacturing
- Transportation
Related platforms
- thethings.io
Partner attribution
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Related projects
- Asset monitoringImage to be supplied
- Facility systemsImage to be supplied
Project references for this solution are being prepared and will appear here once approved.
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