How and Why Remote Monitoring Ensures Uptime for Remote Facilities

Let’s say you’ve hired temporary equipment for use away from your main site.

Perhaps something went wrong with your permanent machinery installation. Perhaps bad weather has knocked the power out. Perhaps there’s simply no access to the grid at this remote facility and you need a standalone generator to power the site. 

Whatever the reason behind it, you’re now relying on the temporary kit you’ve brought in - and so you need to be sure it won’t let you down. 

After all, you’re not there to keep an eye on it. Your budget doesn’t exactly cover paying the rental company to put one of their people on site indefinitely, just in case. But how do you know it won’t break down? 

And even if it doesn’t, how can you be sure it’s running at peak performance, using resources in the most efficient way possible? In fact, how do you even know when it needs to be refueled?

What you need is a way to monitor your critical utilities remotely - and reliably.

Lots of rental companies attach sensors to their equipment to record transmit raw data about their performance. This is useful in the long run, but it doesn’t give you the real-time, actionable reports you need to deal with problems as soon as they emerge (or even before). 

This is where remote monitoring technology comes in. Not only can this tell you that there’s an issue with a piece of equipment, but it also lets you identify exactly where the problem is - great when you’re managing remote sites! Plus, you can keep tabs on fuel levels and schedule trucks and deliveries exactly when you need them, for maximum efficiency.

Take Aggreko’s Remote Monitoring (ARM) system, for example. This carefully monitors every item in our 10,000+ fleet of units, runs diagnostics and sends reports to our engineers via the app on their smartphone or laptop. 

Each engineer can view operations, performance and loads, identify any maintenance tasks that need doing, see immediately when fuel levels get low and check the GPS location. A member of the team will then personally put together a response plan and either get a technician out to the site or alert someone there to the problem so that they can deal with it, fast.

As a result, things run smoothly on-site. You maximize your uptime, getting the most out of rental equipment while protecting productivity and profits. You don’t need to worry about redirecting resources or taking out time unnecessarily to visit remote facilities, because you’re confident it’s all under control. After all, you chose this temporary utilities company because you trust their expertise. Why not make the most of it?

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