November 2011

Use Study
Cellubi in Action: Renewable Energy
Making water flow from solar energy
In many parts of the world, the water industry has to be especially innovative with its use of solar energy. Remote settlements and hillside plantations often stand miles away from the energy grid and this presents a particularly complex challenge to water engineers. These isolated areas require irrigation and drinking water but lack the basic grid infrastructure to support a traditional solution. Basic applications like borehole pumping, wells, irrigation and water transfer need to draw their energy from a reliable, alternative source. They require an off-grid solution that can be called upon to deliver safe drinking water at any hour of the day or at any time of the year. all back-end communications, monitoring, telemetry and SCADA can be sent over a single GSM or CDMA connection meaning that engineers can monitor charge controllers and battery charge cycles, voltages, currents and discharge rates from a single central location. Unlike other M2M solutions, Cellubi provides the flexibility for engineers to design the service that suits them best. This might mean regular heatbeat signals or time stamps to confirm the condition of specific instruments. It might mean a series of alarms or triggers configured to meet specific thresholds or it might mean a complex combination of variables. Whatever the precise solution thats required, Cellubi can be configured to deliver exactly the data thats needed in the most cost-effective way. Cellubi provides the most comprehensive coverage available from an M2M cellular service. With multiple partners in more than 160 countries, the Cellubi service gives customers an unrivalled choice of carrier partners and the security of knowing that if their chosen service fails, a fall-back can be configured with an alternative carrier. This failsafe service can be a crucial factor in important infrastructure projects. Every day Cellubi is transporting mission-critical data on solar battery performance and charge cycles, water tables, reservoir levels and sample conditions. Our water utilities and renewable energy customers rely on Cellubi to transport their data from hill-tops and isolated plants back to their engineers.

The problem with trusting solar energy

There seems to be a straight correlation between the availability of solar energy and the demand for water. When the sun shines people need water and solar power is available and at its peak. For simple applications this relationship works well enough, water is simply pumped when there is enough daylight. However for more complex and demanding applications like irrigation and water treatment, engineers cant simply rely on the cycles of the sun. Key infrastructure applications require a continuous and steady 24 hour supply of energy regardless of the seasons and for this they need back up from solar powered battery arrays. By providing a constant supply of energy, the use of solar powered batteries allows more complex infrastructure solutions to be built in remote areas. Water can be supplied to villages and settlements throughout the day, fields can be irrigated all year round and treatment plants can run for 24 hours.

A full end to end service for any kind of data

Cellubi is backed by the experience and expertise of the team at Wireless Innovation. With over 15 years of experience in a variety of industries, Wireless Innovation are recognised experts in retrieving mission-critical data from remote locations and have helped to pioneer M2M services in the renewable energy and utilities markets. Wireless Innovations design and consultancy service helps our customers to get from design to implementation. Our experience in SCADA, telemetry and numerous industry specific protocols enables us to help design and implement complex, multi-device data backhaul systems in any environment. We specialise in taking our customers all the way from the drawing board to deployment and take full responsibility for transporting your mission critical data from the field to the target location, wherever it is and whatever the data.

M2M solutions to ensure a regular supply of energy

These infrastructure projects require careful monitoring to ensure that battery performance is optimal and that key components are functioning effectively. With unmanned sites in such remote locations, this can present a significant challenge. This is why engineers are increasingly turning to specialised M2M (machine to machine) services like Cellubi to provide the connectivity they need to monitor and protect key operations. Cellubi is a dedicated M2M over cellular solution that allows engineers to monitor key metrics in real-time. With Cellubi,

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