TUSUR and Manotom help Tomskvodokanal to implement IoT at its wells

TOMSK, Sep 7 – RIA Tomsk. Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics (TUSUR) and Manotom JSC are developing an industrial Internet of Things (IoT) system for Tomskvodokanal; the hardware and software complex is planned to be tested at the wells of the enterprise already in 2021, the press service of the university told RIA Tomsk on Monday.

It is explained that the wells of the water utility are distributed over an area of several tens of square kilometers, so collecting data from the sensors installed there to monitor the state of the system is a labor-intensive process. By order of Tomskvodokanal TUSUR and Manotom are creating a system for automatic collection of readings and their transmission.

Manotom and TUSUR were given the task of developing a specialized software and hardware complex for monitoring and controlling technological processes of production of the "city water utility" type. Special design bureau of TUSUR "Smena" within the framework of the project is responsible for organizing reliable wireless transmission of the received data", – says the message.

It is added that experts are creating a system of the industrial Internet of Things, which should work in conditions of changeable relief and temperature changes depending on the seasons. It is planned that it will be organized according to the principle of a mesh network, in which "each participant is both a data source and a repeater for other participants".

"At the moment, within the framework of the permitted frequencies for use outside the city, it has been possible to achieve data transmission over rough terrain at a distance of more than one and a half kilometers with a transmitter power of 100 mW. But these are only test samples. By the time the work is completed, we plan to achieve data transmission at a distance of at least five kilometers", – the developer of TUSUR Alexander Bombizov is quoted in the message.

Water utility – is a strategic facility; for its safety it is important that all sensors, data collection and transmission devices and other systems are of our own production. Serial production is planned to be organized at Manotom. Now the test equipment allows to demonstrate the transfer of data from the model. By the end of the year, it is planned to finalize it, and in the spring of 2021, install test rigs at the wells to test the communication system.