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REMOTE MONITORING...

Rapid reponse to improve

business performance

Here, we ask Matthew Hawkridge, chief technology officer at Ovarro, about
remote telemetry units and why they can help improve business performance

apid response to events and effective consumption make them the perfect platform for
decision making are essential for achieving this.
maintaining a profitable organisation RTU deliver important benefits including early
Rand efficient deployment of resources detection of problems, or continual automated
such as people and energy. One of the best ways of interventions in order that assets operate within
delivering this utopia is to gather information from agreed parameters. In simple terms, RTU’s in an
industrial assets; RTU’s or Remote Telemetry Units, industrial setting allow instant access to the most
with their small size, multiple types of I/O, different relevant information needed to make data-informed
communications modules and programming of decisions. Although RTUs were traditionally used to
processes capabilities as well as low power monitor and control remote field devices, they are

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