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Utilities

Water levels, meters and energy, in real time.

Flood and water-level monitoring, automatic meter reads and energy use across your service area — reported straight into the SCADA you already run.

A row of concrete staff gauges with yellow level scales stepping down a rocky bank into a reservoir

Where it’s deployed

From the creek bank to the control room.

Sensors from the manufacturers that suit each site, LoRaWAN or IoT SIMs chosen per asset, and every reading available to your SCADA.

Rivers & flood points

Rivers & flood points

See water rising before it reaches the road.

Ultrasonic, radar and pressure sensors report river, creek, culvert and storm-drain levels around the clock, with alarms at the thresholds your team sets and a level history for every site.

What we measure

  • Water level
  • Rate of rise
  • Rainfall
  • Threshold alarms

Typical hardware

  • Ultrasonic level sensor

    Ultrasonic level sensor

    Rivers, culverts and flood points

  • Weather station

    Weather station

    Wind, rain, temperature

  • Tilt sensor

    Tilt sensor

    Gates, poles and manhole covers

  • Macro LoRaWAN gateway

    Macro LoRaWAN gateway

    Towers and rooftops, city-wide coverage

How it works

From a sensor in the field to the screen your utility team uses.

One reading, delivered to SCADA, IT and the cloud at the same time — DNP3, Modbus, Sparkplug B and SNMP out of the box.

  1. Sensors in the field

    01 · Sense

    Sensors in the field

    Sensors on tanks, rivers, buildings, meters and vehicles — chosen for each reading and environment.

  2. LoRaWAN or IoT SIMs

    02 · Connect

    LoRaWAN or IoT SIMs

    LoRaWAN gateways or LTE-M, NB-IoT, 4G and 5G on our IoT SIMs — chosen per device. Most sites use both.

  3. EdgeKinect

    03 · Process

    EdgeKinect

    EdgeKinect Core decodes every reading on the gateway on site; EdgeKinect Vision runs dashboards and alerts in our cloud or on your servers.

  4. Your dashboards & systems

    04 · Act

    Your dashboards & systems

    Live dashboards and alarms for your team, and the same data in SCADA, historians or the cloud.

The challenge

Wide service areas. Few eyes on them.

  1. 01

    Water arrives fast

    Creeks, culverts and lift stations can go from normal to flooding between two site checks.

  2. 02

    Manual meter reads

    Water, gas and electric meters still read by hand, monthly at best, so leaks and spikes surface on the bill.

  3. 03

    Spread-out assets

    Reservoirs, pump stations and remote meters across a whole service area, many without power or a network.

  4. 04

    Siloed systems

    New sensors land in yet another portal instead of the SCADA and network tools the team already runs.

The outcome

From site checks to live data.

  1. 01

    Continuous water levels

    Levels with alarms on thresholds, instead of site checks when rain is forecast.

  2. 02

    Every reservoir on one map

    Live level and history for reservoirs and tanks, instead of readings on a route.

  3. 03

    Automatic meter reads

    Consumption reported automatically, with leaks and continuous flow flagged from the pattern.

  4. 04

    Live energy use

    Consumption by site and circuit as it happens, not on the bill after the fact.

  5. 05

    Readings as SCADA points

    Field data in the SCADA your control room already runs — not a separate portal.

See it running

Energy use and generation, live.

A live energy management SCADA with solar, wind, batteries, an inverter, a transformer and a generator — open on our live demos page.

vision.edgekinect.com — SCADA energy management
An energy SCADA mimic with solar panels, a wind turbine, batteries, an inverter, a transformer and a generator, with live consumption

Sensors & gateways

The sensors and gateways behind utility monitoring.

We're hardware-agnostic: each site gets the devices that suit its readings and environment, from several manufacturers, on one platform.

  • Ultrasonic level sensor

    Ultrasonic level sensor

    Rivers, culverts and flood points

  • Weather station

    Weather station

    Wind, rain, temperature

  • Tilt sensor

    Tilt sensor

    Gates, poles and manhole covers

  • Level transmitter

    Level transmitter

    Process and storage tanks

  • Pressure transducer

    Pressure transducer

    Pipelines and wellheads

  • Current meter

    Current meter

    Pumps, motors and panels

  • I/O controller

    I/O controller

    Pumps, valves and relays

  • Energy meter

    Energy meter

    Three-phase power monitoring

  • ATEX pulse and analog

    ATEX pulse and analog

    Hazardous oil and gas zones

  • Temperature & humidity

    Temperature & humidity

    Courts, rooms and enclosures

  • Door & window sensor

    Door & window sensor

    Doors, hatches and cabinets

  • Self-powered current sensor

    Self-powered current sensor

    Equipment run-time, no batteries

  • Smart switch

    Smart switch

    Lighting and load control

  • Macro LoRaWAN gateway

    Macro LoRaWAN gateway

    Towers and rooftops, city-wide coverage

  • Outdoor LoRaWAN gateway

    Outdoor LoRaWAN gateway

    Masts and rooftops, IP67

  • Industrial gateway

    Industrial gateway

    Substations and plant networks

FAQ

Utilities questions, answered.

What utility teams ask us most about water levels, metering and SCADA integration.

Yes. EdgeKinect Core, on the gateway on site, delivers field data to SCADA over DNP3, Modbus or Sparkplug B, to network monitoring over SNMP, and to cloud services over MQTT and HTTP — all from the same stream.

Talk to us

Know about rising water before anyone calls.

Talk to an IoT specialist about your water levels, meters and energy — and the systems they report to.

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