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GB Lubricants

GB Lubricants have manufactured oil and lubricants since 1877, supplying automotive, industrial, construction, mining and agricultural businesses throughout the UK and with a presence in over 25 countries. They needed a remote tank level monitoring solution, which worked reliably for all viscosities and temperatures, to manage inventory at their depot and on customer sites.

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WWT Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust

WWT is the UK’s leading wetland conservation charity. It restores, creates and protects habitats to favour breeding of wetland waterbirds and the wider ecosystem. Managing water levels and salinity is integral to success in brackish lagoons, but covering the 488 hectare Steart Marshes site by vehicle to check levels was extremely time-consuming and disruptive to wildlife.

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NatureScot

NatureScot is responsible for Scotland’s natural, genetic and scenic diversity, including managing potentially conflicting needs of beavers, other species, landowners and infrastructure in relation to dam building. Physical checks of drainage channels and watercourses for activity can be a time-consuming burden.

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United Utilities

United Utilities deliver 1.8 billion litres of water a day in North West England. Combined Heat & Power (CHP) engines on wastewater treatment which run on biogas from the wastewater process. The heat created is returned to the digestion process, and electrical power, power is primarily used onsite with any excess sold to the National Grid. Both outputs are valuable. They wanted to monitor engines to improve efficiency and drive performance, but connecting the engines to SCADA couldn’t be justified financially or within acceptable timeframes.

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Vectec

Vectec Limited designs, installs and maintains refuelling facilities for commercial and public sector organisations. Having used PowTechnology’s tank level monitoring for years, they needed an IIoT solution for customers who store diesel at unmanned sites, to protect them from theft.

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Trans-Auto AB

Trans-Auto, part of the Swedish multi-national Axel Johnson, specialize in transmissions and drivelines for off-highway vehicles. Their Oil Condition Monitoring and Diagnostics division wanted an loT solution to report performance and fault data from remote forestry and mining sites, where wifi is not available.

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Bomac

Bomac Electric Ltd wanted to design a unique, automated oil management system to enable fast food outlets, food manufacturers and other users of oils and fats to monitor oil usage, minimise manual handling and reduce environmental risk.

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Craggs Energy

Craggs Energy supplies over 50 million litres per annum of fuels and lubricants to UK homes, farms and businesses via three depots and a national partner network. Taking manual readings was awkward and hazardous on four 230,000 litre tanks at their Padiham Depot.

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Fuel Link

FUELIink Systems provide commercial fuelling equipment including fuel tanks, pumps, gauges and AdBlue kit. Their customer is a Scotch Whisky distillery, partly heated by kerosene. Local gauges were difficult to access. There were occasions when tanks had run low, requiring expensive emergency fuel deliveries.

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Tournesol

Tournesol Property Care in France offer property management services, specialising in expat homes, including a former water mill, with a water channel beneath it. Water rises rapidly after heavy rain, potentially flooding the mill and surrounding fields. Level is controlled by three manual lock gates.

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Klass Oil and Permark Pumps

Permark supply fuel management systems, pump units, fuel storage and dispensing technology. Klass Oil supply fuels to many Irish homes and businesses. They wanted to standardise stock monitoring and ordering for fuel storage tanks across their six depots.

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Premier Energy Storage

Premier Energy Storage offer fuel systems and energy storage solutions. Premiers customer is the contractor responsible for emptying waste silos for Covanta Dublin Waste to Energy Facility. If the silos become full, the incineration process is forced to stop.

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Ameram

Ameram Ltd design Aeromixer slurry air mixing systems to keep slurry in a uniform state and prevents it solidifying. This makes it easier to pump and spread and it avoids harmful gas emissions. Aerornixer operation cannot be seen in a slurry, making it difficult to detect a failure.

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Permark Pumps & BD Flood

Permark supply fuel management systems, pump units, fuel storage and dispensing technology. BD Flood are major suppliers of construction materials to the Irish construction and agricultural sectors, using their own large fleet of vehicles, which use diesel and AdBlue, and could be immobilised if the tanks ran out.

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Spatial Matrix

SpatialMatrix specialise in geographic information systems. The Oyan Dam in Nigeria is managed and authorities can open valves to release excess water downstream, if levels rise beyond capacity. If the river is already high, water can back-up village drainage channels and flood homes, businesses and farms.

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Irrigation and Water

Irrigation and Water are experts in water engineering. Wood Hall Stud specialise in racehorses. Water for the whole estate is supplied from a borehole, filtered, stored in large tanks and pumped to usage sites. Fresh water is essential to daily activity, but occasionally the filter blocks water flowing from the borehole to the storage tanks.

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Stork Solutions

Stork Solutions supply instrumentation solutions, encompassing water, waste and power management systems. One farm without mains power, uses a water trough for cattle away from the farm buildings. The feeder tank could run out compromising the welfare of the herd, especially during a prolonged warm, dry spell.

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Tag Systems

Tag Systems are UK market leaders in integrated wireless security, fire and safety services. Tag needed to ensure there was always a fuel supply for generators used to recharge batteries powering CCTV towers. If generators failed, CCTV would not operate, invalidating insurance & batteries could be damaged, needing expensive replacements.

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Cemex

Cemex is a multinational building materials company that manufactures and distributes building materials in over 50 countries. Local SCADA was unable to help coordinate product delivery to multiple sites. Modifying SCADA would be costly and complex and they needed a more cost effective solution.

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Environment Agency

Cockermouth has suffered severe flooding events in recent history. The Environment Agency were looking for the most efficient, cost effective and sustainable solution to provide protection for a ‘one-in-100-year event’.

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Bonner

Bonner design instrumentation solutions, specialising in enabling compliance in highly-regulated industries. Their customer, a chemical plant, captures waste liquid in containment areas and cleanse it prior to discharge into the Council’s waste system. pH levels must be safe.

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GreenChem

GreenChem is one of Europe’s
largest AdBlue® producers…

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RSPB

The RSPB is the largest wildlife
conservation charity in Europe…

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Selwood

Selwood Limited are world leaders in pumping solutions, including waste removal. Their customer, the Canal & River Trust looks after 2,000 miles of waterways, including hundreds of septic tanks for boat-users’ waste. These needed to be emptied at minimal cost, whilst avoiding emergency collections & hazardous overspills.