Transforming Power Gensets with Real-Time Monitoring and Management
By Charlotte Rubin
Global VP of Marketing, Taoglas
By Charlotte Rubin
Global VP of Marketing, Taoglas
Hurricanes. Wildfires. Floods. Ice storms. Extreme weather is a major reason why hospitals, oil and gas providers, data center operators and other enterprises worldwide are increasingly deploying gensets to ensure business continuity. In fact, in 2020 alone, the global genset market was worth roughly $17 billion, according to the research firm Verify Markets.
Just as gensets help enterprises protect against unpredictability, the companies managing those gensets need tools for ensuring that their equipment is always ready to go when customers need it. That’s why Taoglas developed Genset Insights, a vendor-agnostic solution, which provides instant real-time actionable insights and remote access to each genset’s key metrics, including run-time, fuel levels, oil pressure, engine status, coolant temperature and overall machine health, as well as the location of each piece of equipment.
Taoglas Genset Insights provides genset integrators, genset rental companies and genset operators with everything they need to monitor, manage and track the usage of their generator sets. This information provides a wide variety of business benefits, such as:
The solution also helps genset operators tackle the industry’s skills shortage. “Companies are having difficulty finding and retaining skilled talent,” Verify Markets says. “Lack of qualified personnel is limiting the growth potential of some speciality rental companies.” By automating workflows and having access to predictive analytics and insights on machine health, frees those companies’ scarce skilled employees to focus on specialized and high value tasks. For example, instead of trekking to customer sites to manually check fuel levels and other operating conditions, those employees now can focus on other tasks, such as quickly responding to customer needs. That helps those companies stay competitive while maximizing employee productivity and efficiency.
The solution also helps genset operators protect their brand reputations. Take the example of one of Europe’s largest providers of diesel generators for sale and rental. After delivering a generator, the company received a call from the customer saying that it had a fault. Its fleet is equipped with Taoglas Genset Insights, which provides instant, remote access to information such as running time. That enabled the company to prove that the fault happened after the customer used the genset.
Actionable Insights, Available Anytime, Anywhere
Taoglas Genset Insights is purpose-built for genset monitoring, with a vendor-agnostic design that enables fast, easy implementation. It’s autoconfigured and supports a majority of leading genset controllers, such as DSE, Powerwizard, DCP10, Comap and more. This allows genset operators to manage a mixed fleet of generators with quick connection to Modbus, CAN Bus, J1939, CANOpen and other industrial interfaces.
The solution comes with an on-board analytics engine allowing companies to deploy machine learning and predictive analytics to effectively monitor, manage and track the usage of their generator sets. The solution can also be customized and expanded to integrate with auxiliary equipment that need monitoring and management on one enterprise-level platform.
This turnkey solution includes the Taoglas EDGE™ IG10, an industrial gateway that supports 2G, 3G and 4G cellular networks, enabling a wide variety of regional and global deployment options. It includes an active SIM card for instant deployment, and an embedded satellite receiver to support location-based applications such as anti-theft geofencing and rapid recovery. Bluetooth connectivity supports a smartphone installation application for installation in just 5 minutes, as well as an optional Bluetooth fuel sensor.
Each Taoglas EDGE™ IG10 gateway connects to Taoglas Insights™, an enterprise-grade software platform that collects and transforms genset data into actionable insights about equipment productivity, efficiency, compliance and more. The Taoglas Insights platform is cloud-based with anytime, anywhere access to monitoring and control capabilities from their computer, smartphone or tablet — including proactive alerts.
Taoglas team of experts have developed a plug-and-play IoT solution to get up and running immediately;
The Taoglas Genset Insights solution is a turnkey solution which can be white labelled for genset rental companies and enterprises. Please visit the Taoglas Genset Insights solutions page for more information or schedule a demonstration of the platform by contacting our regional sales team.