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Monitoring

Remote Site Connectivity & Telemetry

Know what a site kilometres away is doing, without driving out to it

Bore fields, pump stations, tank farms and remote substations run unattended for days at a time. Without a data path back, the first sign of a problem is an overflow, a dry run or a phone call from the client. Telemetry gives those assets a voice, over 4G, private radio or LoRaWAN, so alarms and trends reach your control room the moment they happen.

Applies to
Pump & lift stations Bore fields Tank farms Unmanned substations Remote pits
Authorised Advantech partner 4G, radio and LoRaWAN options Configured and tested before dispatch
Unmanned pump station connected back to a control room by telemetry

How a Telemetry Link Is Put Together

Field signal to control room in three steps.

1

Field Signals Are Collected

Remote I/O and RTUs pick up level, flow, pressure, run status and alarms from the plant already installed at the site.

2

A Carrier Moves the Data

4G cellular, licensed radio or LoRaWAN carries the data back, chosen on distance, coverage and how much data actually needs to move.

3

Your Control Room Sees It

Data lands in SCADA, a historian or a cloud dashboard, with alarms routed to the people on call.

Remote field asset with instrumentation and communications cabinet

Choosing the Carrier

Distance, data volume and what coverage already exists at the site decide this. Most sites end up with a mix.

Carrier
Typical range
Data volume
Best suited to
4G / LTE cellular
Anywhere with coverage
High
Sites inside carrier footprint needing images, logs or frequent polling.
LoRaWAN
Up to ~15 km line of sight
Low
Battery sensors reporting a handful of values every few minutes.
Licensed / private radio
10–50 km with repeaters
Medium
Utilities and mine sites that need a network they control, beyond carrier coverage.
Point-to-point wireless Ethernet
1–10 km line of sight
Very high
Linking a remote building or pit back to the site network at LAN speed.

What Sites Get Out of It

The outcomes that matter on site.

Clock indicating time saved

Fewer Drives Out to Check a Site

Status, run hours and alarms come to you instead of costing a half-day vehicle trip.

Trend line crossing an alarm threshold

Alarms Before an Overflow or Dry Run

Level and flow thresholds raise a call-out while there is still time to act on it.

Gauge read remotely

No Trenching Between Assets

Wireless carriers remove the civil works that usually kill a remote monitoring budget.

Shield with a tick representing secure access

Secure Remote Access to Field Kit

VPN-capable routers let engineers reach a PLC or HMI without a site visit.

Often Scoped Alongside

Applications that usually share the same site visit.

Grain storage facility monitored by cellular telemetry
Case Study

Remote Monitoring at a Grain Storage Facility

Silos and handling assets spread across a large site left staff driving between locations to check conditions. Telemetry brought level, temperature and run status back to a single dashboard, cutting manual rounds and catching issues before they reached the grain.

Read the Case Study

Tell Us What the Site Needs to Report

Send us the signals, the distance and what coverage exists on site. Our technical team will scope the RTU, carrier and network path, and tell you honestly if it isn’t the right fit.