PLANT & MACHINERY / PUMPING & DRAINAGE
Pump station and sump monitoring
The pump failed on Friday. The flood was on Sunday.
Pumps remove groundwater, effluent and surface water from low-lying areas across sites, basements, car parks and drainage networks, and the stations that house them are usually unmanned and rarely visited. The failure sequence is well known and entirely preventable: a pump or its control panel fails, nothing removes the water, the level rises over hours or days, and the first anyone knows is a flooded basement or a pollution incident. Duty and standby arrangements hide the problem rather than solving it, because a station can run for weeks on standby alone with nobody aware that the duty pump died, which means the redundancy everyone is relying on has already been spent.
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The difference
Pump station monitoring: what changes the day it goes live
Pumps remove groundwater, effluent and surface water from low-lying areas across sites, basements, car parks and drainage networks, and the stations that house them are usually unmanned and rarely visited. The failure sequence is well known and entirely preventable: a pump or its control panel fails, nothing removes the water, the level rises over hours or days, and the first anyone knows is a flooded basement or a pollution incident. Duty and standby arrangements hide the problem rather than solving it, because a station can run for weeks on standby alone with nobody aware that the duty pump died, which means the redundancy everyone is relying on has already been spent.
- Run and fault state per pump, so a duty pump failure is known immediately instead of being masked by the standby carrying the load
- Water presence at floor level as an independent backstop, which catches the case where the control system itself is the thing that failed
- Wet well level from the existing 4-20 mA transmitter where one is fitted, giving a real level trend rather than just a float switch state
- An escalation path that reaches a person out of hours, which is exactly when these failures turn into flooding
What you get
- 01
Run and fault state per pump, so a duty pump failure is known immediately instead of being masked by the standby carrying the load
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Water presence at floor level as an independent backstop, which catches the case where the control system itself is the thing that failed
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Wet well level from the existing 4-20 mA transmitter where one is fitted, giving a real level trend rather than just a float switch state
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An escalation path that reaches a person out of hours, which is exactly when these failures turn into flooding
The full stack, applied here
All five layers, one accountable system
Every Indiott build runs all five layers as one accountable system. Follow a single live signal from the sensor that catches it to the report that proves it.
Turnkey LoRaWAN and industrial sensors read the physical world at the edge, on battery, without rewiring the site.
Hands a reading to CONNECT ↓
Gateways, industrial routers and serial device servers carry every reading back over LoRaWAN, 4G, 5G, Ethernet or satellite, so the far edge reports as reliably as the plant room.
Hands a signed stream to SECURE ↓
OT security by design: managed switching, VPN and firewall routers, protocol gateways and hardware data diodes keep the network segmented and the data tamper-evident to IEC 62443.
Hands a trusted stream to CONTROL ↓
When you want the system to act, remote IO, wireless valves and the bespoke Indiott Engineering line close the loop, dose, switch, isolate or interlock, with no human in the middle.
Hands an action to MANAGE ↓
The software layer turns it into decisions: live dashboards, mapping, alarming and analytics, with one-tap reports and clean feeds into your SCADA, BMS or existing platform.
The loop is closed ✓
How teams start
From a single pilot to the whole portfolio
You do not boil the ocean. Nearly every rollout runs the same four moves, and you own a working, evidenced result at the end of the first one.
Scope & risk map
We walk the sites, list the assets and pin the one constraint that matters, then agree what a good result looks like before a single sensor is bought.
Pilot on one site
A focused set of sensors goes onto one site or asset group, live on our telemetry and dashboards, wired to the people who need the alert.
Validate & standardise
We tune thresholds, kill false positives, confirm the integration into your SCADA, BMS or CAFM, and write the standard design down so it repeats.
Scale the portfolio
The proven design rolls out across the estate, reusing the same hardware standards and data models so every site reads the same way.
The pump station monitoring kit we deploy
Full catalogue
Urban.io Activity Sensor
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Urban.io Ambient Temperature Sensor
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Urban.io Battery Test Sensor
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Urban.io Current Sensor
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Urban.io Delta Pressure Sensor
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Urban.io Gateway
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Urban.io Humidity Sensor
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Urban.io Light Sensor
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| Model | Key specification | Price ex VAT | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban.io Activity Sensor | — | Price on request | Quote only |
| Urban.io Ambient Temperature Sensor | — | Price on request | Quote only |
| Urban.io Battery Test Sensor | — | Price on request | Quote only |
| Urban.io Current Sensor | — | Price on request | Quote only |
| Urban.io Delta Pressure Sensor | — | Price on request | Quote only |
| Urban.io Gateway | — | Price on request | Quote only |
| Urban.io Humidity Sensor | — | Price on request | Quote only |
| Urban.io Light Sensor | — | Price on request | Quote only |
Brands in this kit: Urban.io
Why Indiott
A specialist stack, not a box-shifter
Brand-agnostic by design
We pick the best of each brand for the layer and the environment, not one vendor catalogue. Milesight, AquaIoT, Atop, Browan, SpecSens and Urban.io, chosen on merit.
The whole stack, one supplier
Sensing, connectivity, OT security, control and the dashboard come from one accountable team, so there is no finger-pointing when something needs to talk to something else.
Specified and supported in Britain
UK-based engineers scope the site, quote the kit and stand behind it, with compliance mapped to the regimes your auditors actually cite.
Honest kit, honest pricing
Prices are shown where we can, quoted fast where we cannot, and you get a straight answer and a bill of materials within one working day.
DEPLOYED IN THE FIELD
Compliance this answers to
| Standard | What it requires |
|---|---|
| Environmental Permitting Regulations 2016 | pumping-station failure leading to a discharge is a pollution risk, and alarm records evidence control measures |
| Water Industry Act 1991 | duties around sewerage and drainage systems, where availability and failure records support the case |
| Flood and Water Management Act 2010 | local authority and risk-management-authority duties around drainage assets |
What it costs, roughly
A station with pump run and fault state plus a floor-level moisture sensor sits in the low hundreds of pounds, with a gateway serving several stations across a site or catchment. Against the cost of one flooded basement or a single pollution incident, the payback conversation is usually short. Itemised within one working day.
Pump station monitoring: asked before buying
Why a separate water sensor if the panel already alarms on high level?
Because the panel is a single point of failure and the whole point is defence in depth. If the controller, its float switches or its power supply is the thing that failed, its own high-level alarm is exactly what will not tell you. A cheap independent moisture sensor at floor level does not depend on any of that, and in our experience it is the sensor that earns its keep on the day everything else lets you down.
Can it start or stop the pump?
No. Everything here is monitoring only, and we would not put control on this platform for a drainage duty. Pump control belongs in the control panel with proper interlocks. What this changes is that you know the state of that panel in real time instead of at the next visit.
What about stations in a confined space or a hazardous area?
Sewage wet wells frequently qualify as both confined spaces and DSEAR-zoned areas. These sensors are not certified for use in a classified zone, so we keep them outside the zone boundary, typically in the dry well or kiosk, and specify certified instrumentation for anything that must go inside. Access for fitting is a confined-space job under your own procedures.
Next step
Scope it with an engineer.
Tell us the site, the assets and the constraint. You get a bill of materials and a straight answer within one working day.
- A bill of materials sized to your site
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