With the enforcement of the Protection of Personal Information Act of 2013 (PoPI) on the horizon, South African business owners and leaders need to re-examine the way that they handle and process data. In essence, PoPI seeks to ensure that all South African institutions operate responsibly when managing, collecting, processing, storing and sharing personal information. The […]
Routine checkups, a healthy diet, and regular exercise is the prescription for a healthy life. The same is true for your pumps. Your pumps’ “diet and exercise” is a function of how you operate them. If the fluid specific gravity, temperature, pressure, or power quality are not within specifications, then their “diet” is not optimum. […]
Shortwave is where radio communication began and while some sceptics may say that the final chapter is likely to be written soon, they may well have the wrong end of the stick. The subject was fiercely debated earlier this year when Sentech arranged a digital radio showcase where, in addition to the aspects of digital […]
Developments are underway to realise an advanced physical layer (APL) for Ethernet that can be used in process automation and instrumentation to connect field devices in remote and hazardous locations. “Ethernet to the field” is a vision driven by new technological developments such as the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and Industry 4.0. These developments […]
Wireless instrumentation is a new concept for some, as it is still considered to have limited use in the industry. Yet, it is becoming more popular for monitoring of non-critical processes like tank levels in a tank farm and where the use of cables is expensive or a risk. With the current hype over the […]
Many organisations are facing challenges relating to the unstructured data they hold. By its very nature, unstructured data is in a form that is difficult to manage, and it is growing rapidly in size. This can make it difficult to understand who owns that data, whether it is being used or even whether it is […]
A company with equipment installed in a high lightning incident area asked our team to investigate the reason for damage which had occurred despite the installation of external lightning protection and surge arresters. They thought that their equipment used on these sites would be safe, as the radio mast would offer the required umbrella of […]
The Aston Martin Red Bull F1 racing team faces a great deal more IT challenges than your average enterprise. Not many IT teams have to rebuild their data centre 21 times each year and spin it up in a matter of hours. Not many data centres are packed up and transported around the world by […]
Data centre resilience has become more crucial than ever before as increasing volumes of transactions move to the cloud and paper-based data is digitised. Whether an organisation owns its own data centre facility or outsources the service to a third-party provider, the principles of redundancy and resilience need to be applied to the power chain. […]
In many photovoltaic (PV) systems, PV inverters not only have to be protected against surge voltages on the input side, but also on the output side. But, due to the power electronics in current inverters, “simply” installing a standard surge protective device is very often not possible. Surge protective devices specially developed for this application […]
