Webinar Description:
Even with limited resources and expertise, it is possible to implement an effective Condition Monitoring and diagnostics solution that significantly reduces your hydropower unit’s downtime and life cycle costs while increasing reliability, safety, integrity, and efficiency. This is made possible by a few hybrid monitoring solutions that have evolved to fit into the digital transformation currently taking place in the hydropower industry and directly challenge what is offered by traditional monitoring systems.

During this webinar, we will present a use case of how the historian, in this case, the AVEVA™ PI System™, eliminates the need for proprietary stand-alone servers and provides easier access to 3rd party service providers. Additionally, we will explore a cost-effective off-premise monitoring solution with wireless sensors for smaller hydro units. This example will showcase a system where there are no monitoring servers, and the diagnostics are conducted as a remote service.

Learning Takeaways:
1. How enterprise-wide data management for Condition Monitoring makes it more efficient, agile, transparent, and assessable compared to proprietary stand-alone servers.
2. How an off-premise solution greatly simplifies system installation operation, and where all monitoring and diagnostics can be done remotely for smaller hydro units.
3. How data is managed by a hydropower company using the AVEVA™ PI System™ historian.

About the Presenters:
Jonathan Fox has 24 years of experience in software development and product management, 14 of those spent with SETPOINT® and Brüel & Kjær Vibro. I led the original development team for SETPOINT® software and was also instrumental in the design of the VC-8000 Platform.

Mike Hastings is an application engineer at Brüel & Kjær Vibro, where he has been working for the past 33 years. He has developed hydro generating unit monitoring functionality for legacy systems and is currently working with strategic market development, analysis and communications.