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remote monitoring


The Benefits of Explosion-Protected Cameras in High-Risk Environments

Many critical infrastructure sites contain areas that are classified as hazardous due to a high risk of explosion. What makes most of these locations dangerous is the presence of flammable…


Build for Today, Design for Tomorrow: Five Things to Look for in an Intelligent Remote Monitoring Solution

Today’s electric power grids are evolving at an alarming pace. Distributed energy resources are quickly taking the place of central power stations, making grid operators’ jobs of managing power flows…


How to Monitor Assets Remotely Today

As long as products have had ethernet ports, people have been asking for remote access to them. They believed they could just plug the devices into the internet, and it…


Doing More with Less: New Solutions Help Address Power Plant O&M Staffing Difficulties

Studies and surveys have predicted a future shortage of skilled workers in the power industry for many years. Unfortunately, the future is here. When qualified workers are difficult to locate,…


Coal-Fired Power Plant Heat Rate Improvement Options, Part 1

Even without regulatory considerations, there are good reasons for virtually every coal-fired power plant to improve its heat rate. The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has looked at dozens of…