Industrial switches and hubs network treatment Plants in Springfield

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The City of Springfield Missouri maintains two Wastewater Treatment Plants. The water treatment plants are 24x7 operations that together collect and treat 39 million gallons of wastewater generated daily by the citizens of Springfield and Greene County. The Southwest Plant is the larger of the two, with a capacity to treat up to 42.5 million gallons per day. The Northwest Plant can treat up to 6.4 million gallons per day.

The Wastewater Treatment Plants needed to expand their SCADA systems. Only two buildings on the nine-building Southwest Plant site had in-building networks, and none of the buildings were interlinked. In addition, there was no network link between the Southwest and Northwest Plants, and the city’s plans called for a more integrated system.

The Southwest Wastewater Treatment Plant contacted R. E. Pedrotti Co., Mission, Kansas, to assist in designing a solution. The Pedrotti company has been providing total packages for water and wastewater treatment plants for more than 25 years.
The Pedrotti company explored existing products for industrial environments and recommended the GarrettCom Ethernet product line. The breadth of the products and their built in fibre ports reduced the requirement for extensive numbers of media converters to connect existing copper-media equipment.

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