Novatel at the All Ireland Water & Wastewater Expo 2024
Join Novatel at the All Ireland Water & Wastewater Expo, happening on November 21st at the Leopardstown Pavilion, Leopardstown Racecourse in Dublin. This prominent event gathers key decision-makers, engineers, and industry leaders across water and wastewater sectors to discuss innovations, regulatory updates, and the future of water engineering. With Ireland’s National Development Plan investing €6 billion towards water infrastructure upgrades, the expo is a timely opportunity to explore solutions supporting efficient water use and sustainable practices.
At Novatel, we’re excited to showcase our latest technology and connectivity infrastructure solutions, designed to support the monitoring and reporting of water management systems. Our solutions enable efficient, scalable, and environmentally compliant operations within the water industry. This event allows us to engage with industry experts, demonstrate our cutting-edge technology, and present cost-effective solutions tailored to meet regulatory and environmental standards.
Why Visit Our Stand? Novatel partners with leading brands in cellular connectivity solutions, including Teltonika, Poynting, and Stella Doradus. These brands provide the robust connectivity needed for remote monitoring, reporting, and management of water engineering technology, ensuring seamless operation and oversight in even the most challenging environments.
Teltonika
Teltonika’s advanced IoT and networking products provide reliable connectivity for on site control, remote monitoring and automation in water systems. Their rugged routers and sensors ensure seamless data flow, enabling efficient water usage tracking and system management that meets environmental standards. Teltonika’s Remote Management System (RMS) adds centralised, real-time remote management, supporting data-driven monitoring of essential parameters.
As water treatment involves multiple critical stages, maintaining optimal performance in each is key to avoiding costly downtime or disruptions. Teltonika Networks’ solutions allow operators to monitor water levels, pressure, and temperature flows while controlling the infrastructure when process parameters exceed normal operating values. This proactive approach helps prevent loss of productivity, time, and money.
Optimized and safe handling of drinking water is an obligation that needs to be carried out by operators, investors, sanitary equipment installers, planners, and facility managers. Contaminated water could cause much harm, and the supervisors are trying to reduce such risks by all means.
Solution 1
The RUT241 provides unbreakable network connectivity with auto-failover for continuous backup, making it a versatile choice for various projects. Equipped with 4G LTE, Wi-Fi, and two Ethernet ports, the RUT241 ensures unstoppable connection continuity with automatic WAN failover. Its industrial design, compact size, multiple connection interfaces, and compatibility with the Remote Management System (RMS) make it an excellent fit for IoT and M2M solutions.
For example, in a centrally controlled system managing water quality in large buildings via fittings and sensors, the RUT241 excels due to its connection reliability, secure data transfer, and support for multiple industrial networking protocols. Operating parameters, such as temperature or the start and end of a stagnation flush, can be monitored and evaluated using data protocols, ensuring precise control and timely interventions for optimised performance.
Solution 2
The RUT956 is an industrial-grade router combining cellular, Wi-Fi, and wired connectivity with automatic WAN failover and GNSS capabilities. It’s equipped with serial communication interfaces that support integrating a wider range of devices into one network, while I/O options and the advanced RutOS software enable comprehensive control, automation, and event notifications.
This makes the RUT956 ideal for complex tasks, such as automating a wastewater treatment plant, where sustaining uninterrupted network connectivity is essential. The router provides multiple connectivity options; Ethernet ports, Wi-Fi, and dual SIM — ensuring robust and reliable communication pathways.
An essential feature of the RUT956 is RS232 interface support, which allows seamless integration of both legacy and modern equipment into a unified network via a single router. With its Ethernet connectivity as the primary internet access and cellular backup, the RUT956 maintains network continuity. This robust setup is critical to the automation process, as the entire plant relies on uninterrupted internet access. By connecting legacy and new equipment through the RS-232 interface, the RUT956 completes the solution with a full-featured connectivity backbone essential for effective plant automation.
Poynting Antennas
Poynting offers high-performance antennas designed to ensure reliable, uninterrupted connectivity for various industrial applications, including water and wastewater management. These antennas come in versatile models, such as the PUCK, OMNI, and MIMO series, which are well-suited for harsh environments and remote locations. Each model is easy to install and integrates seamlessly with a range of routers and equipment, making them an ideal choice for monitoring and controlling water treatment systems.
Versatile Applications
Poynting’s antennas are available in 4G, 5G, and wideband cellular versions, supporting seamless communication across modern and legacy networks. The OMNI-600 and PUCK-7 models, for example, cover an extensive frequency range, ensuring compatibility with 4G/5G LTE bands, which is essential for data continuity in remote water management systems. Equipped with IP65 and IP69K ratings, these antennas are highly resistant to water, dust, and temperature extremes, making them a resilient choice for outdoor installations.
Enhanced Connectivity Options
Poynting antennas support a range of configurations, from SISO to 4×4 MIMO, to optimize signal reception. The MIMO-4-4 series, with 4x4 MIMO capability, allows for high-speed data transfer and is ideal for environments requiring robust, low-latency connectivity. By integrating these antennas, water management facilities can maintain stable connections for IoT devices, SCADA systems, and automated monitoring, ensuring efficient system operation even in challenging conditions.
Ease of Installation
Designed for simple setup, Poynting antennas can be mounted on poles, walls, or surfaces with minimal effort, accommodating different installation requirements. This flexibility allows quick integration into existing infrastructure, providing reliable connectivity across large treatment plants or remote monitoring sites.
Poynting’s range of antennas, available through Novatel, delivers reliable, industrial-grade connectivity essential for the rigorous demands of water and wastewater management systems.
Stella Doradus Mobile Phone Repeaters
Stella Doradus offers ComReg approved mobile phone repeaters designed to ensure strong and consistent cellular coverage in buildings where signal reception is typically weak or non-existent. These legal to use repeaters, which are manufactured in Ireland, support all cellular networks (2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G) and can handle a large number of simultaneous users, making them ideal for commercial and industrial settings like hospitals, factories, hotels, and large office complexes.
Features and Benefits
Comprehensive Coverage: Stella repeaters, such as the Titan iRepeater, use multi-band technology to amplify signals across all cellular frequencies, ensuring seamless voice and data coverage for all network operators. This enables every device on cellular networks within the building to connect reliably to its preferred network without interruptions. From mobile phones and tablets to essential IoT devices like sensors, smart meters, smart pumps and EV chargers equipped with SIM cards, Stella repeaters provide uninterrupted connectivity for every device. This robust coverage is essential for supporting a wide range of operations, from automated reporting and data logging to real-time monitoring and control in water management facilities.
Professional Installation: Stella repeaters are designed with professional and precise installation in mind. Their StellaPlanner tool enables our installers to upload building blueprints, position antennas strategically, and plan the layout for optimal coverage, reducing setup time and avoiding costly installation errors. Features like PortSense, which uses LED indicators to confirm correct cable connections, further streamline the installation process. Novatel having a highly trained and experienced installations team, provide a professional end to end service from sales through to commissioning.
Adaptability to Complex Environments: Stella’s modular systems, such as the iRepeater, are ideally suited for challenging environments like water treatment plants. In facilities with thick concrete walls, extensive piping, and high moisture levels, Stella’s iRepeater system, combined with internal antennas, delivers uninterrupted signal coverage throughout. This setup ensures that smart devices, operators and staff have consistent connectivity across the entire plant, supporting effective communication and monitoring even in remote or shielded sections of the facility.
Remote Monitoring: StellaControl, the remote monitoring platform, enables users to manage and monitor repeater performance in real time, providing insights into system health and ensuring continued signal quality without onsite checks. This feature is particularly valuable in large facilities with extensive installations, as it allows quick adjustments from any location.
Energy Efficiency and Sustainability: Stella repeaters use minimal energy—comparable to a single light bulb—and the amplification system reduces the need for devices to constantly search for signals, extending mobile battery life. This makes Stella systems not only cost-effective but also environmentally friendly, a key consideration for businesses aiming to reduce their carbon footprint.
Use Case
In water treatment and waste management, several types of equipment use SIM cards to facilitate remote monitoring and control through cellular networks.
Key examples include:
Water Quality Sensors and Meters: Devices that measure parameters like pH, turbidity, and chemical composition often use cellular connectivity to transmit real-time data to a central system for monitoring and compliance.
Flow Meters: These are used to track the flow rates within pipelines and waste channels. Equipped with cellular-enabled SIMs, they can automatically report data, detect anomalies, and enable remote adjustments.
Smart Pumps: Cellular-enabled pumps in water treatment can communicate with control systems to provide data on performance and energy usage. This allows for adjustments based on demand and helps prevent failures or leaks.
Telemetry Systems: Used to manage data from various sensors and meters, these systems gather information across a water treatment plant or waste facility and transmit it securely to a central database over cellular networks.
EV Chargers (where applicable): At facilities utilizing EVs for transportation or maintenance, cellular-enabled EV chargers ensure consistent network access for billing, usage data, and system diagnostics.
These cellular-enabled devices are crucial for ensuring continuous, automated operation in water treatment and waste management, where reliable data flow and remote control can prevent costly disruptions and support regulatory compliance. Stella Doradus provides the necessary signal levels to keep the crucial infrastructure connected, online and monitored.
Stella Doradus repeaters offer an effective solution for ensuring robust mobile connectivity, helping facilities operate more efficiently while supporting essential communication across all network providers.
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