Yokogawa Electric Corporation said it has begun working with Iwaki Company, a leading manufacturer of chemical and pharmaceutical pumps in Japan, on a proof-of-concept (PoC) test for a remote pump monitoring service. 

 

This service will use an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) architecture that is currently under development by Yokogawa.

 

The PoC test will examine the market potential for such a service and investigate means by which it may be offered, said the company in a statement.

 

Yokogawa will exhibit and demonstrate a prototype version of this service at the IoT Solutions World Congress 2017, which will be held in Barcelona, Spain on October 3, and IoT Korea Exhibition 2017, which will be held in Seoul, South Korea starting from October 11.

 

Yokogawa said it will conduct the PoC test of a service for remotely monitoring the operating status of Iwaki magnetic drive pumps, which are widely used in chemical, pharmaceutical, and food plants for the transport of various types of fluids. 

 

With this service, operating data such as the current being drawn by a pump, pump discharge pressure and flow rate, temperature of the conveyed liquid, and tank empty/not empty status will be collected via an Iwaki pump protector DRN and transferred to the cloud using the IIoT infrastructure that Yokogawa currently has under development, and will be available for remote access from any location by a facility manager. 

 

With the IIoT architecture that Yokogawa is developing, an IoT gateway device will receive sensor data via a low power wide area network (LPWAN) or some other wireless link, or via an analog/digital communications interface, it added.-TradeArabia News Service