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SignalFire Telemetry devices can monitor key assets and can do it affordably, without any renovation or high-priced engineering costs. They install easily with no required cable or additional power. The data is available on your phone or computer and the cloud service can even output to your corporate system to integrate with the rest of your data and keep your operation running.

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SignalFire Telemetry devices can monitor and manage water supplies and additives throughout the property, helping you avoid catastrophic shortages and keep your irrigation plan on track.

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Avoid costly product loss in bulk storage tanks, terminals, and transportation movements. Whether calling for tank levels, gauge pressure, or even movement pumps or pipelines, SignalFire products can fill any monitoring gap throughout a facility.

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Environmental fines for businesses are be frustrating and can bring business to a standstill until they’re worked out. No business wants to hurt the environment, and in competitive markets stopping production affects the bottom line and staff. But there are effective and affordable solutions with SignalFire Telemetry devices.

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Expand visibility and control of your refinery or petrochemical processing facility without expensive renovations or redesigns. And do it with your current gauges and hardware. SignalFire telemetry devices are designed to work in harsh chemical environments and meet the strictest safety and security standards

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No matter the size of your service map, monitoring remote assets ensures efficiency and keeps your operation in compliance. That’s how SignalFire devices can really help, offering the most affordable and effective monitoring solution that will monitor liquid, gas, electricity, and other assets.

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Telemetry Talk Blog – May 25, 2018

SignalFire Telemetry System Design Guards Against Lightning Strike Damage

 

Lightning can be an issue for remote sensor control systems, especially in the upstream oilfield. Sensors located on top of 20 – 24 ft. steel tanks become ideal targets for lightning. One unfortunate strike can take out a sensor or the entire telemetry system.

SignalFire’s wireless telemetry is designed for reliable operation in outdoor applications under various conditions including rain, snow, ice, sun and even lightning. Using a wireless network to connect remote sensors and devices creates a basic “lightning-resistant” system. On the other hand, the configuration of a wired system connects all remote devices to each other and a centrally located controller makes it susceptible to lightning damage. A lightning strike at any one location will, almost certainly, destroy all devices on the network. A wireless system does not have this weakness as devices are not wired together, making it larger immune to lightning strikes.Signal Fire Gateway Stick

The SignalFire Remote Sensing System incorporates additional features that simplify lightening protection. While no system can withstand a direct lightning strike, a more problematic issue is imminent or nearby lightening.  In these cases, a strong electrical field will affect devices located above ground by subjecting it to a voltage difference between the antenna (up high) and radio (down low).

Many telemetry systems that connect an antenna by coax to a radio use expensive lightening arresters to reduce the chance of this potential difference from harming the input amplifiers of the radio.  A SignalFire Gateway Stick (see photo) is uniquely designed with the radio collocated with the antenna in the Stick.  The elimination of coax and distance between the antenna and radio amplifiers make them more immune to static and electric field effects.

With any wireless system, higher antenna placement provides for better range. While increasing reception quality, higher antenna positioning makes equipment susceptible to lightening issues as lightening likes things that stick up. SignalFire solves this issue by combining radio electronics and the antenna into an integrated housing that features static dissipating devices within the electronics.

While wireless networks are inherently more resistant to lightening, the Signal Fire Gateway Stick products add extra insurance by co-locating the antenna and electronics into one convenient housing and including protection devices inside the package.

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