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Petro-chemical

Inico Smart RTUs are an outstanding choice for monitoring of petro-chemical plants, as well as wells and pipelines. Inico's RTUs allow you to consolidate, process, scale, linearize, and aggregate instrument data, before reporting to SCADA or IT systems, and displaying in SmartPhone/PDA devices.

Additionally, embedded control capabilities allow for logic and PID control of simple applications, where the cost of a PLC would be prohibited.

Petro-chemical plants

Petro-chemical plants are amongst the most complex industrial systems to be found. Instrumentation is pervasive, yet very often instrumentation data is lost or does not reach the right hands soon enough. Inico's Smart RTUs are an ideal solution for processing, consolidation, and integration of instrumentation data into Factory IT systems.

  • Data acquisition and processing
    • Support for analog and digital instrumentation
    • Digital signal processing
    • Complex math operations
    • Aggregation/combination of multiple data sources
  • Data integration
    • Integration to factory IT systems and SCADA
    • Alarms and warnings through e-mails and text messaging
    • Advanced HMI Interfaces through laptops and Smart Phones/PDAs
    • Intuitive designs using gauges, meters, and other familiar elements
  • Legacy instrumentation integration
    • Wrappers for old instruments, no need to replace old devices
    • Gateway to SCADA and IT systems
  • Wireless access to inaccessible instruments
  • Local control for valves and switches, where cost of PLCs is prohibitive

Wells and Pipelines

Wells in remote locations may operate unsupervised for extended periods of time. The same applies to pump/compressor stations, block valve/regulator stations, heating stations, etc. Inico Smart RTUs allow you to monitor process and environment variables, and provide real-time data and operational reports to supervisory centres.

  • Remote monitoring
    • Monitor well/station performance
    • Monitor environment variables
    • Real-time reporting through wireless network
  • Operator interface
    • Laptop or Smart Phone interface for service operators
    • Remote access to Well/Station HMI through GPRS or 3G network
  • Local control
    • Local control of valves and other actuators
    • Station climate control

Tank farms

Many tank farms still rely on human monitoring and supervision to ensure smooth operation. Inico's RTUs and Wireless I/O can help in automating tank farm maintenance and operation.

  • Wireless monitoring
    • Tank level
    • Valve states
    • Flow
    • Temperature
  • Wireless alarms and warnings
  • Operator interface through Laptop or Smart Phone/PDA