A dosing skid, a filtration plant or a reverse osmosis unit is sold on the water it delivers, and then left with an operator who checks it when there is time. A controller on the skid reports the readings and the state of the plant to you and to them.
Continuously, with the time against each reading, and not from the last manual test. That record is what the operator shows when asked.
Chemical tank level and treated flow together show consumption per volume. A change in that ratio is the first sign that something upstream has changed.
A probe that drifts shows it slowly, as a reading that walks away from where it sat last month. It is visible in a chart and invisible on a display.
A starting list, not a fixed kit. The ports are set from the dashboard, so the same controller takes a different mix of sensors on a different model.
| Signal | How it is read | What it tells you |
|---|---|---|
| pH and ORP | Probes over RS485 | Disinfection and dosing control |
| Conductivity | Probe over RS485 | Membrane and softener performance |
| Residual chlorine | Sensor over RS485 | Whether the dose reached the outlet |
| Turbidity | Sensor over RS485 | Filter breakthrough |
| Flow | Electromagnetic flow meter over RS485 | Volume treated |
| Chemical tank level | Ultrasonic level sensor over RS485 | When to deliver, before the tank runs dry |
Four ports on one controller, and RS485 devices share a bus, so most of this list fits on a single unit.
One machine reporting is a gadget. Every machine you have shipped reporting to the same place is a service business.
Each machine reports to the same cloud. Your service desk sees which units are running, which are in alarm and which have gone quiet, before the customer calls.
Accounts nest: you sit above your dealers, and each dealer above its customers. A parent account cannot grant more than it holds, and a unit can be shared with a service company without handing over a login.
Readings and events are stored with their time and export to Excel, for a warranty claim, a service report or a disagreement about what happened and when.
A REST API with scoped tokens covers what the dashboard covers, so fleet data can feed your service system, your ERP or your customer portal directly.
The controller takes 6 to 32 V DC, so it runs from a 12 or 24 V supply already on the machine. Its internal rechargeable battery keeps it reporting after the machine loses power, which is when the reading matters most.
It connects over 4G-LTE from wherever the machine is installed. There are no Wi-Fi credentials to collect and no IT department to convince at each customer.
If the machine already has a controller with an RS485 Modbus RTU port, give us its register map and we add it as a supported device. Its values and alarms then arrive alongside the sensor readings.
The web dashboard is served on your domain with your name, logo and colours, and the iOS and Android apps are published under your own developer accounts. Your customers log in to your product.
Readings are held on the device while the network is down and sent in order when it returns, so the record has no gap where the incident was.
No. Over fifty sensor types are supported today and more are added on request. If your skid already carries an instrument with an RS485 Modbus output, send us the model and its register map.
It can switch an output through a relay, on a threshold or on a schedule. Closed loop dosing with its own interlocks belongs to your dosing controller. This reports what that controller is achieving.
Either. Every controller comes with OmniCloud included, and the REST API does what the dashboard does if you would rather build your own front end on top of it.
The supply voltage available on the machine, the signals you want reported, the register map if the machine has a Modbus controller, and how your dealers and customers should be separated. A first batch on machines already in the field is the usual way to begin.
Over the air, by cellular. Where there is no network at all, the unit raises its own Wi-Fi access point and takes the update from a phone or laptop beside it.
What it is, what you want it to report, and who needs to see which units. We come back with how the controller wires in and how the accounts would be laid out.
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