From Data to Action: Automate & Control Your Water Infrastructure
Take remote, automated control of your water infrastructure in South Africa. The Augos platform uses real-time sensor data to intelligently manage your on-site equipment like pumps, valves, and VSDs. Mitigate risks, optimize energy use, and reduce manual labor with our powerful automation solutions.
What is Process Automation and Why is it Critical?
Process Automation & Infrastructure Control allows you to use the Augos platform to remotely and automatically manage your on-site equipment based on real-time data or schedules. It bridges the critical gap between insight and action, turning your water monitoring system into an intelligent, responsive network that actively works for you, 24/7, without human intervention.
Mitigate Risk & Respond Instantly
Shift from manual response to instant, automated action. Our system can automatically shut off a main supply valve after a leak is detected, preventing catastrophic water damage and waste. It eliminates human delay, ensuring critical events are handled immediately, day or night.
Optimize Resources & Save Energy
Stop running pumps on fixed, inefficient schedules. By using real-time data from sensors based on tank levels or pressure readings, our platform can automate pump operation to run only when necessary or during cheaper off-peak energy periods, significantly reducing energy costs and water abstraction fees.
Regional Insight: With rising labor and transport costs in South Africa, the expense of sending personnel to remote sites for manual tasks like checking tank levels or operating pumps is becoming prohibitive. Our automation solution eliminates these routine site visits, delivering a direct and immediate reduction in operational expenditure.
Key Automation Applications We Deliver
Our platform and hardware are designed to control the most critical components of your water network, from simple on/off commands to sophisticated control of industrial machinery.
Automated Pump Control
What it is
The ability to automatically switch pumps (e.g., borehole, booster, transfer pumps) on or off based on sensor readings like water level, pressure, flow rate, or predefined schedules.
Why it's critical
This prevents pumps from running dry (protecting the asset), ensures tanks don't overflow, maintains desired system pressure, and optimizes energy use.
Automated Valve Control
What it is
The power to automatically open or close water valves (e.g., irrigation solenoids, main supply shut-off valves) based on sensor data, schedules, or leak detection alerts.
Why it's critical
Essential for precise irrigation management, rapid response to leaks, managing flow between different zones, and automating routine filling or draining processes.
Modbus Device Control (VSD/PLC)
What it is
A more advanced capability that allows the Augos platform to communicate directly with, monitor, and control industrial equipment using the Modbus RS-485 protocol, such as Variable Speed Drives (VSDs) and PLCs.
Why it's critical
It enables deeper integration and more sophisticated control, allowing for the adjustment of pump speeds (VSD control) for energy savings or precise pressure management.
How Our Automation & Control System Works
We make intelligent infrastructure control simple through a seamless, 4-step process.
Sense with Real-Time Data
The process starts with data from Augos sensors installed on your site, monitoring metrics like Water Level, Pressure, Flow, or Soil Moisture.
Define Rules in the Platform
You create simple but powerful rules in the Augos platform. For example: "IF Tank Level drops below 1 meter, turn Borehole Pump ON," or "IF Leak Alert is triggered, turn Main Valve OFF."
Send Commands to Hardware
When a rule's condition is met, the Augos platform instantly sends a secure command to the Augos control hardware connected to your equipment on site.
Actuate Equipment Instantly
The Augos control hardware (like an Augos Airswitch, Valve Controller, or I/O Conduit) receives the command and physically operates the pump, valve, or VSD, completing the automated action.
Frequently Asked Questions
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