First there was Pressure, Temperature, Level and Flow. Now’s there’s Video Anywhere. This powerful and effective solution augments your current automation or security environment. Industrial manufacturing, process, transportation and utility sector clients can now monitor their most extreme remote or centralized locations using existing communication networks eliminating significant installation and networking costs of traditional approaches. Longwatch’s distributed architecture combined “recording at the edge” and HMI integration to make video a new “sensed variable” for process and manufacturing operations.

Longwatch, Inc. was founded by industrial automation and software veterans with the goal of simplifying video delivery over existing SCADA, HMI and distributed control networks. The result is the Longwatch Surveillance System™, a portfolio of products that enables SCADA system operators the ability to view events and easily verify alarms at local and remote sites within legacy and new networking infrastructures. The system integrates video and system alarms on the same display for fast, reliable operation and decision-making.

• Improved Performance – Combining video with data trends and process alarms enables faster and better response to operating events – delivering lower costs, less downtime.
• Regulatory Compliance – Use video to show leaks and emissions that could go unnoticed by traditional instrumentation.
• Safety – Reduce risk to people and equipment with on-site video monitoring and notification.
• Security – Help deter vandalism, break-ins and costly damage to equipment, facilities and surroundings.
• Efficiency – Reduce travel to remote sites, save time with “virtual walking through the plant.”
• Quality Control – Use cameras to watch, annotate and document operations in batch and continuous manufacturing. Train operators with video for higher consistency and fewer errors.

Your industry and your organization have a unique set of drivers and issues. At the same time all organizations in all industries face these needs: improve security, safeguard assets, and raise productivity. Some of the most common driving needs are noted below along with those point solutions enabled by Longwatch.

• Protect company brand, reputation - Visual proof, permanent record, and forensics
• Extend SCADA capabilities and ROI- Unifies process monitoring, surveillance, alarming
• Decrease personnel and operating costs - Handles in-plant, regional and extreme remote areas
• Raise security awareness, ownership - Facilitates IT, Process Operator, Audit collaboration
• Reduce information management costs - Leverages existing networks: cost-effective, fault-tolerant