Strategy and risk

Digital Application System (DAS)

In the age of big data, it’s more important than ever to have responsive, flexible yet secure data management and monitoring systems to ensure you’re getting what you need, when you need it, in a way that makes sense to you. 

With an array of technologies and digital platforms at your fingertips, it can be overwhelming knowing what to choose to best suit your data needs – that’s where Entura’s Digital Application System (DAS) comes in.

DAS is more than just a data management system. This near real-time, versatile, web-based suite of enterprise grade tools work together to collect, integrate, analyse, store, control and serve, bringing all your data into one, easy-to-manage application (click image to enlarge).

The suite of trusted tools integrated into DAS include AVEVA OSI Soft PI, Indicium Stack, Time Studio Manager, Campbell Scientific Loggernet, and various Microsoft Azure Services. These are regularly updated and reviewed, with the introduction of additional software tools or integrations to complement our client’s digital applications never off the table.

Our scenarios include (but are not limited to):​

  • hosting and managing the entire solution. We can simply provide you and your users with a log in to tailored web applications (think dashboards or user interfaces)​
  • collecting, integrating and serving your remote site asset data to your platform. We will remove the burden of field device management and empower you with reliable integration between your field devices and your in-house data management solution.​
  • connecting to your in-house data management solution and integrating your data with data correction tools, advanced analytical/prediction tools, alerting/notification systems or highly capable web applications. We can complement your datasets with other available datasets to enable even greater insight.

Each solution benefits from the practical knowledge and expertise of Entura’s technicians, engineers, scientists, and digital innovators.

The system is hosted in Australia on scalable Microsoft Azure infrastructure, ensuring data sovereignty.

More on our Digital Application System’s capability (click to enlarge):

 

COLLECT

  • Telemetered data from field devices (Think dataloggers, or SCADA devices)
  • Data from edge data server sources (Think PI Edge, or Azure IoT Edge)
  • Data from our clients own databases (Think Aveva PI or other)
  • Data from other web accessible databases (Think forecast weather data)
  • Laboratory results data
  • Service and inspection data

INTEGRATE

  • Remote over-the-air device management (Think Campbell Scientific Loggernet)
  • AVEVA Osi Soft PI Connectors and Adapters
  • Indicium Stack IoT solutions
  • Azure Services (Think Azure EventHubs)
  • MQTT
  • API
  • FTP
  • Microsoft Power Automate

STORE

  • AVEVA PI Server
  • Azure Storage Accounts

ANALYSE / COMPUTE

  • Hydrometric data quality checking and correction software (Think Time Studio Manager)
  • AVEVA OSI Soft PI Analyses, Event Frames and Notifications
  • Azure Services

CONTROL

  • Basic manual or automated field asset position or operation control (Think camera’s, pumps, gates, or valves)

SERVE

  • Web Applications
  • Email and SMS alerts and calls to actions
  • Mobile Phone Applications
  • Programmatic data access needs
  • Reporting needs (Think Microsoft Power BI or similar)
  • Embedded website content
Why automate data collection?
  • Operational intelligence
    • significant return on investment (ROI) with remote sites over project life
    • capture high-quality, near real-time time series data that is accurate and complete
    • move from reactive to proactive decision making
    • alert key staff when critical operating parameters (COP) exceed criteria
  • Efficiency
    • telemetry removes the need to manually download and process data from field logging devices
    • Consistent data visualisation and analytics ensures staff have on-hand data access
    • Integrate a multitude of data sources to a single visualisation platform
  • Reliability
    • telemetry removes the need to manually download and process data from field logging devices
    • Consistent data visualisation and analytics ensures staff have on-hand data access

Entura’s digital team are here to support your data management and monitoring journey every step of the way. We provide a full end-to-end service offering:

  • strategy and planning
  • design
  • assembling and installing
  • operation
  • maintenance
  • risk management
  • training

 

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