
Emerson Service Data Sheet
October 2014 – Page 2
Wireless Remote Video Monitoring
Benefits
Increase plant safety.
Video monitoring provides 24x7
surveillance of the plant and its operations and enables
faster response and earlier detection of dangerous
situations to workers.
Comply with regulations.
Digital video recording of
visual data on flare, smoke stack or other emissions
provides evidence of regulation compliance to local
authorities. Video evidence of an emission’s duration can
reduce regulatory fines to the shortest period possible by
showing when the emission started and ended.
Scalable.
Emerson can provide a wireless network
solution that exactly meets your needs today, while
providing flexibility for future wireless mesh infrastructure
growth as your needs expand. Emerson’s Smart Wireless
Plant Solutions can also scale to the types of applications
you utilize in your wireless plant. For example, each Wi-Fi
mesh node installed to communicate video back to the
central control room can also backhaul remote
WirelessHART® data, or be used as a “hot spot” for your
mobile workers to access live plant data, or track
personnel with Wi-Fi RFID tags.
Reduced cost.
When compared to the cost of
engineering and trenching a fiber-optic cable to each of
the video cameras, a wireless remote video solution can
be deployed for less cost. Moving or adding wired
cameras is cost prohibitive, especially when compared to
the flexibility of a wireless solution.
Safer deployment.
Trenching a fiber-optic cable in a
live process area puts workers in the process area for long
periods of time – exposing them to potential hazards and
risking disruptions to process operations.
Secure and reliable communications.
All
communications on the wireless plant network are fully
secure using AES 128-bit encryption. The integrity of the
wireless communication network is continuously monitored
and alerts can be sent to administrators if degradation of
the wireless signal is detected.
Full support service.
Emerson SureService provides
full 24/7 support for customers who have purchased and
deployed a wireless video solution from Emerson.
Video Monitoring Applications
Plant Surveillance
Use wireless video to monitor plant fence lines, entrances,
or remote tank farms for enhanced security or to comply
with regulatory requirements.
Workforce Safety
Video cameras can be installed to monitor workers in
hazardous areas within the plant or in remote tank farms
during normal operations to monitor their safety. Video
images can be checked prior to sending a worker into a
potentially hazardous or remote part of the plant to ensure
that they are not being placed in danger.
Process Monitoring
Live video feeds can augment the operator’s control of
volatile processes. Video analytics that monitor the pixel
image of the camera can trigger process automation
alarms to alert the control room operator to an abnormal
situation based on video camera data.
Emissions Monitoring
Visually recorded information of emissions can serve as
evidence of emissions for regulatory compliance and can
reduce potential fines in the absence of other verifiable
data.
All the plant’s video information can be recorded and
stored on a central server that can store days, weeks or
even months of video data depending on your needs or to
comply with emissions regulations. Data can be
permanently stored offline on optical disks if required.
Wireless Engineering Services
Wireless engineering services are critical to the success of
a wireless plant network deployment. Emerson offers a
comprehensive services portfolio to help you design and
deploy a wireless remote video monitoring solution.
Site Assessment
Emerson engineers visit your plant site to conduct a Radio
Frequency (RF) study, determine access point locations
and collect other on-site information.
Network Design and Planning
Based on the site survey results and your video system
requirements, Emerson engineers design the overall
wireless mesh architecture including the detailed network
infrastructure, network monitoring tools, and integrated
security.
Physical Network Installation Management
Engineers work with you to install the video cameras and
wireless mesh network equipment based on the detailed
network design.
System Commissioning
The video recording system and wireless mesh network is
brought online and commissioned onsite. Complete site
acceptance testing is performed with your engineers.
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