2022 USE CASE
Wireless Pressure Monitoring
Improves Productivity and
Reduces Downtime and Costs
BACKGROUND
A petrochemical facility in the Gulf Coast, USA wanted to
increase the visibility and productivity within their plastics facility
by continuously monitoring the quality of catalyst totes during
production while reducing downtime and maintenance costs.
Until then, the facility was only collecting pressure level data
once a week. The customer wanted to monitor the positive level
measurement as totes were moving through the facility and
ensure that no moisture got in. Continuously monitoring moisture
levels throughout production is critical as it ensures the quality of
finished products.
PROJECT DETAILS
Sync Automation deployed the LoRaWAN
®
network by installing
a single MultiTech Conduit 300 Gateway in a concrete,
explosion-proof control room. The gateway provides excellent
signal strength to all IoT sensors across the facility. The Inductive
Automation's Ignition Edge and the Cirrus Link MQTT Transmitter
Module ensure efficient backhaul of all data to the SiteSync
platform.
SiteSync IIoT Cloud Platform
RESULTS
Plant operators can monitor trend data 24/7 based on decoded
MQTT backhauled data, with SMS or email alerts in case of any
problem. The LoRaWAN
®
solution has decreased downtime and
improved the quality of products. Sync Automation is leveraging
the data to deploy unique cloud applications and improve the
process. After the PoC, the customer has added Sushi
Temperature Sensors to monitor the temperature of 18-wheeler
refrigerated trailers that drive to site, with additional valve
monitoring and GPS locators being discussed. The LoRaWAN
®
network can scale to 1,000
+
sensors.
SOLUTION
Sync Automation is an IIoT integrator providing packaged
scalable wireless solutions with low-cost maintenance to
industrial enterprise customers throughout North America. It
deployed a LoRaWAN
®
network with 105 LoRaWAN
©
Yokogawa Sushi Pressure Sensors across the plastics
facility. The IoT sensors provide continuous monitoring of
pressure levels 24/7 across the whole plant. Real-time SMS
and email alerts of critical data are sent to site operators by
via the SiteSync IIoT cloud platform for action and alarms.
Sushi Sensors provide a low-cost, continuous monitoring
solution, with a battery life of up to four years (based on one
update per minute), reducing downtime and costs. SiteSync
brings stranded assets and manual measurements into a
central source of truth for data visualization, alarming, and
advanced AI analysis.
Smart
Industry
North
America
Partnership
Solutions
Provider
COMPANY CONTACT INFO
Sync Automation, Louisiana - USA
www.sitesync.cloud
contact@syncautomation.com
