System Integration
The traditional architecture of Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems has evolved a bit since we started PTI two decades ago. Our project portfolio includes numerous projects where our engineering and system integration teams have developed solutions to streamline our clients' day-to-day operations by integrating their data streams using traditional local control, wireless networking, and remote SCADA technologies.
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Our project teams have implemented traditional SCADA remote monitoring platforms and developed custom solutions for a broad range of clients. – From simple tablet-based systems using local wireless networks to alert your operators of alarm conditions when they are away from their desk but inside the fenceline; To interconnected multi-mode wireless, cellular, satellite, and internet-based systems accessible from down the block to across the country.
Our SCADA system experience includes 900 MHz and 5 GHz line of site terrestrial radio networks, interconnected with local fiber and copper connected local networks, satellite and cellular access, and failover redundant access points using both locally managed server systems and cloud-hosted SCADA-as-a-Service platforms.
Our team of engineers and partners cover all aspects of your system design, including RF Propagation Modeling, Network Architecture, Security, Data Flow (from current and legacy assets), User Rights Management, Data Historian, Alarm Rationalization, and Reporting.
The tightly integrated engineering, system integration, and fabrication professionals at Principal Technology allow us to support diverse project scopes for a broad range of clients in various market sectors. Design-Build, Build-to-Print; cold-hardware, or turn-key logic development, configuration, testing, and anything in between, our project team is accustomed to tailoring our product and service offerings to meet our client's specific project needs.
learn morePrincipal Technology's design team has over two decades of experience supporting our client's safety system challenges. Our System Integration group can build and test your safety control system to manufacturers and industry standards - or- our engineering team can complete a turn-key safety system design for your application.
learn moreOur engineers, designers, and panel builders have experience with all major PLC, PAC, and DCS manufacturers. Our project portfolio includes Allen Bradley SLC and Logix Families; Schneider Modicon, Triconex, and Foxboro; Siemens SIMATIC; Fisher Delta V and ROC platforms.
learn morePrincipal Technology's System Integration group produces control panels and automation control systems that support the operations of our diverse industrial clientele. Our project portfolio ranges from simple relay or small PLC-based annunciator panels to complex process control and safety instrumented systems (SIS).
learn moreElectrical power systems of almost any type... from simple motor starters, electric heater power and control (HPP), variable frequency drives (VFDs), to advanced "smart" Motor Control Centers (MCCs)... Principal Technology's licensed engineers and System Integration & Fabrication group have the credentials, experience, and capabilities to take your project from Permit to Power-On.
learn moreProviding efficient engineered solutions remains a cornerstone of our Mission and Vision from when we founded Principal Technology in 1997. This goal usually requires more than just a Control Panel. PTI has a tightly integrated multi-discipline team of engineers, designers, and fabrication professionals under one roof to support this goal.
learn moreCloud Hosted SCADA and SCADA-as-a-Service platforms provide small and midsized operators security, hardware, software, and network management capabilities that parallel that of larger companies with dedicated IT departments.
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Remote and Distributed IO Panels for most major automation manufacturers. Redundant and fault-tolerant networks. EthernetIP, ControlNet, Foundation FieldBus, HART, and Modbus.
Foldable HMI sun shields, external power and programming ports, laptop tables, replacement fuse kits, enclosure lighting, intrusion detection, insulation, heating and cooling.
SCADA-as-a-Service and Cloud Hosted SCADA Platforms… eliminate on-premise server hardware, reduce IT management costs, and leverage commercial cellular and ISP infrastructure.
PTI’s Engineering & Control System team developed a standard design approach to provide high-quality cost-effective control panels. Ask us about our 8, 16, and 32-Pack PLC panels.
Our project to upgrade the remote monitoring capabilities of a Texas municipal water system to a modern SCADA platform came with its share of challenges. PTI and the town’s stakeholders understood the value of the existing water system assets. The project objective was to create a SCADA system foundation for new developments to accommodate the town’s rapid growth -without breaking the budget and unnecessarily replacing legacy hardware.
Our strategy was to implement a hybrid local control and SCADA monitoring system. We were able to keep most of the existing control system hardware and the existing 900 MHz radio assets and merge them with a modern Cloud-Hosted SCADA platform using cellular SCADA gateways.
The resulting system eliminated the single point of failure surrounding the legacy workstation-based automation software and replaced it with a cloud-hosted SCADA platform that, once implemented, requires little more than periodic user rights management. New projects in the town will utilize cellular SCADA gateways, while the town operators can upgrade their legacy equipment at their convenience.
This project in West Texas involved bringing together assets built by multiple operating companies, all using different hardware platforms and radio networks – Allen Bradley PLCs, ABB RTUs, Fisher ROCs, and OleumTech wireless meters all needed to talk to the same SCADA server. The system footprint exceeded a 10-mile radius, with end devices and gateways operating between a few hundred yards to several miles across multiple radio hops covering most of the county.
PTI designed and upgraded this SCADA system using a central server-based automation platform and data historian. We were able to preserve most of the legacy assets by repurposing the existing 900 MHz radios and augmenting them with new towers and communication gateways. The resulting system provides real-time web-based control access to their mobile operators as well as transmitting daily reports served by the data historian to the home office.
Principal Technology is a full service engineering firm with additional support for system integration, fabrication, sulfur recovery, amine treating, and a wide selection of turnkey solutions.
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