How remote-access and monitoring tools can increase resilience

This is according to Novotek UK and Ireland, which points out that providing mission-critical services like electricity, water, and basic essentials cannot stop, even during the Covid-19 outbreak. The pandemic is creating new challenges for water and power companies who now need to manage teams and machines remotely.

While the availability and use of team collaboration tools, like video conferencing, is widely known about, there has been less focus on operations technology that industrial companies need to use to remotely operate, monitor or control equipment. According to Novotek's managing director, George Walker, modern operations technology tools, such as those supplied by Novotek, allow for remote operations and monitoring of everything from entire electrical grids to individual machines, like a pump in a sewage pumping station.

Walker continues: “As the lockdown eases, it is time for utility companies to seriously consider and seize the opportunity to connect by remote software, to better manage these assets more easily and effectively. Selecting the right IoT platform is a crucial first step. Novotek offers systems such as PTC’s ThingWorx, which is a single, purpose-built industrial IoT platform. Industrial market-leaders are using ThingWorx to develop feature-rich industrial IoT applications. With ThingWorx, utility operators can rapidly explore, prove and master the value of smart, connected operations and products, even if the organisation is new to IoT.”

To find out more about Novotek and PTC solutions, visit: www.novotek.com/uk