Roktgr
Mechanical
- Feb 9, 2007
- 27
Hello,
We are looking to redo our current water-tower water level controls. Our current controls have numerous issues both in the communications and the wiring. Rather then run new communication wires (very old facility and not easy to run wiring) I would like to use a remote telemetry system, wireless, to communicate the water level from the tower to the PLC that would turn the water pump on/off in the well-house. Another engineer on the project is having concerns about the reliability of the telemetry type systems. I don't have any prior experience with these types of system but if they work well for remote systems (over several miles) it would seem the system would handle 300 yards just fine.
So the question is how is the reliability on these systems? Any typical issues?
We are looking to redo our current water-tower water level controls. Our current controls have numerous issues both in the communications and the wiring. Rather then run new communication wires (very old facility and not easy to run wiring) I would like to use a remote telemetry system, wireless, to communicate the water level from the tower to the PLC that would turn the water pump on/off in the well-house. Another engineer on the project is having concerns about the reliability of the telemetry type systems. I don't have any prior experience with these types of system but if they work well for remote systems (over several miles) it would seem the system would handle 300 yards just fine.
So the question is how is the reliability on these systems? Any typical issues?