ScadaCam® Helps Utilities Operate More Effectively and Efficiently Utilities are responsible for managing some of the most critical infrastructure in America, whether it is electric, natural gas, or water. The economy is dependent upon adequate, safe, and reliable utility service. Utilities are faced with increasing cost pressures due to increasing material and equipment costs, labor costs, and security costs. Pivotal Vision’s™ ScadaCam Intelligent Surveillance Technologies can provide utilities of all sizes and types with automation technologies to meet a variety of operations, asset management, and security needs. The ScadaCam technology platform leverages the investment in automation across multiple functions within a utility. The various diverse needs are listed below along with the features of ScadaCam that enable the various needs to be met with the same technology. Operations
ScadaCam Feature
Emergency inspection
After a SCADA alarm, operators can perform a visual inspection of equipment and site to better direct and dispatch emergency response personnel.
Make better and quicker operating decisions
Various technical experts can access the system and view the same situation to better diagnose the problem and come up with quicker solutions.
Improve communications with field crews
Operators/dispatchers are able to view the same situation as the field crews at a site to better coordinate planned or emergency activities.
Monitor operating conditions and status
View current operating status of equipment at critical times, such as temperature gauges, fans, equipment temperatures via thermography, and switch closings to ensure safe and reliable operations.
ScadaCam is designed on a reporting by exception basis as are traditional SCADA systems. Therefore, the system can be incorporated into a utility operating environment without burdening operating personnel with additional screens to watch. When desired, operators can take control of the system to use the system’s visual and thermographic capabilities to assess conditions.
Asset Management
ScadaCam Feature
Periodic inspection of equipment
Both visual and thermographic cameras can be deployed to allow utility operating personnel to perform automated routine inspection of critical equipment without sending out a field crew.
Routine equipment assessments
Routine visual and thermographic inspections provide a detailed historic record of equipment conditions and thermal stresses to improve assessments of equipment maintenance and repair.
Construction and maintenance management
Visual documentation of construction or maintenance processes and periodic checks on progress can be accomplished without having to be on-site.
Engineers can obtain more frequent and better data at lower cost to manage their portfolio of field assets. Being able to perform, correlate, and archive visual and thermographic information of critical assets will enable utilities to better anticipate and schedule maintenance and replacement of equipment, improving the reliability of operations. Physical Security
ScadaCam Feature
Identify and monitor physical perimeters
System can be configured to capture motion within the identified perimeter and ignore motion outside.
Record and maintain access in and out
System archives are based on preset triggers, such as verified detected motion or access control device operation, that include visual images as well as the desired information from electronic access control systems.
Monitor access in and out
Remote operations or security personnel can visually verify before authorizing access to sites without electronic access control or monitor and validate after entry at sites with electronic access control.
Record the identity of all personnel gaining access
System captures visual images that can be downloaded and archived to identify and document personnel access to critical facilities.
In addition to providing unique and exceptional technological capabilities and performance, ScadaCam can meet a utility’s expanded physical security requirements with few, if any, additional personnel. This is due to ScadaCam being a fully automated surveillance system. For more information on ScadaCam, please contact us at 1-866-798-7499, or visit us online at www.pivotal-vision.com.