Sustainability is high on the agenda at many companies. One such company is AquaSecurity, a Belgian specialist in sprinkler installations. The company from Aalst is innovating digitally to make the maintenance of their installations easier while practicing predictive maintenance. For the realization of this digital transformation, they called on Inimco’s Internet of Things platform.
Founded in 2002, AquaSecurity supports its customers throughout the entire lifecycle of their sprinkler systems. This includes consulting and design, their actual installation and maintenance. As a company in a traditional market, its main focus is on innovation and sustainability. “Water is getting scarcer and scarcer,” says Laura Saelens, CEO of AquaSecurity, “that’s why we want both ourselves and our customers to treat it very carefully.” The digital innovation that AquaSecurity stands for, allows the company to develop new business models that benefit AquaSecurity and its customers as well as society. “By remotely monitoring our facilities, we can act proactively to prevent problems. This creates significant added value for our customers,” said Laura Saelens.
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Remote testing and monitoring of sprinkler installations
Rosiot is a remote testing and monitoring system for sprinkler systems, and uses IoT and Cloud technology. The name is a contraction of IoT and Rosie – the name of one of the company dogs at AquaSecurity. Sprinkler systems are required, by standard, to be tested biweekly, with the pumps running for 30 minutes. So maintenance technicians drive around the country to start up their pumps at customers’ facilities and monitor them for half an hour. “Rosiot allows us to start up and monitor the pumps remotely,” says John De Gieter, Chief Technical Officer of AquaSecurity. “We make connections to existing fire protection components such as a Modbus TCP and we use LoraWAN for wireless connectivity. Via 4G, all data goes to the cloud.”
