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Dam, river and weather telemetry

The network goes down. The data doesn't.

HydroDCS collects your gauge data three independent ways, on a fast, rugged appliance at the dam. In daily use on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dams since 2018.

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GOES satellite Your network when it is available Straight from the sky no network needed Your own receiver on the local switch Upstream servers pulled in, never pushed HydroDCS collects, decodes and stores it at the dam Dashboards Reports Your models Your other systems Straight from the sky GOES satellite, no network Your own receiver on the local switch Upstream servers when your network is up HydroDCS collects, decodes and stores it Dashboards Reports Your models Other systems
Three ways in One record, kept at the dam Out to wherever you need it

In service

Running on Corps of Engineers dams, day in, day out.

2018

In daily use ever since, at Portland District dams and New England District's reservoir control center.

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Independent ways for the data to arrive, all running at once.

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Place to set it up. Every unit stays in sync.

When something fails

You lose a path, not the data.

Storms, wildfires, a cut cable, a cyber incident - whatever takes the network down, the paths at the dam keep collecting.

Path All normal Antenna fault Network outage Cloud down
Straight from the sky
Your own receiver
Upstream servers
Your data at the dam Complete Complete Complete Complete

Where it runs

At the dam, and in the cloud.

HydroDCS in the cloud the long history, one configuration At a dam collecting and storing At a dam collecting and storing At a dam link down, still running HydroDCS in the cloud long history, one configuration At a dam collecting At a dam collecting At a dam still running
Data goes up Configuration stays in sync Link down? The dam carries on and catches up after
The HydroDCS appliance, a low black box.

The appliance

Modern, fast, and nothing to service.

Rugged, encrypted, no moving parts, and it looks after its own housekeeping.

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Who uses it

One system, three kinds of people.

Not only a backup. It is the screen people keep open every day - color-coded current values, alarms and reports - so when the network goes, nobody has to learn a new tool in a hurry.

Operators

Current values and alarms at the dam, even with the outside network gone.

Water managers

Every project in one view, feeding the models you already run.

Regulators

The complete record, with the standard reports ready.

More than gauges

Any time series. Even the view from space.

Stage Flow Pool Precipitation Temperature Wind Weather stations Cellular gauges Satellite weather imagery, direct from the satellite

Stored, charted, and served through an API to whatever needs it next. Watch a storm coming on live satellite imagery, and adjust reservoir levels sooner.

In the browser

Built for the person on shift.

The HydroDCS status page showing current values across sites.
Current valuesEvery site at a glance, arranged the way you want it.
The HydroDCS live dashboard.
Live dashboardUpdates while you watch.

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