Industrial Informatics, Inc. is pleased to announce the startup of a trichloroethylene (TCE) groundwater plume remediation project in north central Mississippi. Industrial Informatics was chosen by the responsible environmental engineering company to provide the automation and controls technology for the system. Using our Conferax™ rev. 3.1 OPC communications library and Avizi™ rev. 1.7 alarm autodialer interface the system provides completely “lights out” day to day operations of the system. In addition, the web based interface allows remote operation and monitoring of the system from the environmental engineering firm’s home and satellite offices.

     The system, as originally conceived by the environmental group, was a simple pumping and fan control panel with a hardware outbound telephone autodialer. However, at our suggestion, the system was expanded to provide secure but complete monitoring and control via both the web or telephone.

     Our Avizi™ autodialer package provides complete inbound and outbound call management facilities, allowing the facility operator to specify alarm conditions to monitor, and provides call progression from a configurable call list. Once a call recipient has been located by Avizi™ the person may command the system to report status of any measured variable or take appropriate control actions via the touchtone interface. Additionally, an operator may call in to the system to monitor as well.

     The basic system consists of 30 shallow, medium, and deep wells and 4 soil vapor extraction lines. All indications and functions of the SCADA are available via a secure web interface at the environmental engineering firm’s corporate office, reducing the need for site visits to a minimum. And all log files are readily transferable from the remote site over the wire for analysis or reporting.

      If your plant is faced with a remediation task we would urge you ask your environmental engineering group to contact us about devising an automation system for your remediation equipment. If you are an environmental engineering group that wants to focus on your core environmental skill and leave the details about motor amps, pump sizes, etc. to a fabricator, please contact us.