In 2018, SiteWatch began distributing and supporting Panoramic Power for remote monitoring of electricity by manufacturers. This system — including snap-on hardware, transmitters and the software platform — has proven to be an industry-leading technology, with the SiteWatch portfolio of projects expanding from a single factory to over 500 sites today!
The diagram below shows the standard system architecture for Panoramic Power hardware:
With many manufacturers needing the ability to monitor other parameters within their facilities, SiteWatch developed a holistic platform called SiteWatch 360 that can monitor almost all engineering variables — using sensors transmitting on a LoRaWAN protocol — including all the common utilities (e.g., electricity, water, air, gas, steam) as well as any other variable such as temperature, pressure, flow, humidity, emissions, liquid levels, vibration, etc.
For non-electricity monitoring, SiteWatch can capture signals from virtually any third-party sensor or meter that creates a signal. Sensors transmit data via a gateway to a cloud-based server, where data is analyzed, providing real-time graphs, charts, reports, and alerts. These can be used to show total energy usage, average and max readings, cycling periods, run hours, etc., and can present this information for one machine, an entire production line, a group of similar equipment, etc., for a single location or for multiple locations across the country or around the — all at once and all on one dashboard!
The diagram below shows the standard system architecture for hardware that uses the LoRaWAN protocol.
Data is stored indefinitely and can be automatically set to download to a site or account server. Years of data is collected, useful for comparing a machine's or a production line's performance today vs. yesterday vs. a week, month or year ago.
SiteWatch 360 is designed to be an "open" system, meaning that data can be imported from, and exported to, virtually any other platform, whether a BMS, SCADA system, or another monitoring, data presentation, or data tracking tool.