LPWAN SOLUTIONS
Solution
The pH Monitoring in Remote Industrial Water Treatment Units Solution delivers near-real-time tracking of pH levels, Oxidation-Reduction Potential (ORP/Redox), water temperature, and chemical balance trends across treatment basins, discharge channels, and isolated waterways. By digitizing water quality surveillance without expensive or complex wired telemetry, the system enables industrial plant operators to maintain optimal chemical dosing and prevent environmental contamination. Delivered pre-configured out of the box, the solution streams encrypted sensor telemetry directly to the Ellenex Software Platform.
This IoT-driven water quality solution offers key operational benefits:
Zero-Touch Field Deployment: Arrives fully pre-programmed for immediate plug-and-play installation in under 5 minutes, requiring no on-site software configuration or manual driver setup.
Flexible Dual LPWAN Protocols: Choice of LoRaWAN® (ideal for private industrial plants or municipal facilities with zero ongoing airtime fees) or NB-IoT / LTE-M (for direct-to-tower cellular coverage across spread-out discharge sites).
Tri-Parameter Sensing Capability: Simultaneously measures potentiometric pH (~2-12), ORP (-1000 to +1000 mV), and water temperature (0-50 °C) using a combination glass electrode with automatic temperature compensation.
Corrosion-Resistant Industrial Build: Features an IP68-rated submersible, corrosion-resistant sensor probe connected to an IP68 UV-stabilized transmitter enclosure built for aggressive liquid exposure.
Low Total Cost of Ownership: Combines an internal replaceable 3.6V Lithium battery with ultra-low-power firmware to achieve maintenance-free operational lifespans of up to 10 years.
Rapid Capital Return: Accelerates ROI by automating manual grab sampling, optimizing chemical neutralizer usage, avoiding acid discharge penalties, and protecting downstream water ecosystems. Learn More
Easy Install
Pre-Configured
Secure
Quick ROI
Rugged Design
Battery Operated
Our pH Monitoring in Remote Industrial Water Treatment Units Solution provides a comprehensive approach to efficient water quality management and chemical neutralization control. By leveraging cutting-edge combination potentiometric sensors, industrial facility managers, mining operators, and municipal water authorities can track, control, and optimize their treatment systems in real time. The result is a future-proof solution that not only addresses current environmental challenges but also adapts to changing industrial compliance demands, ultimately protecting infrastructure, public health, and aquatic ecosystems.
Connecting remote treatment basins, neutralizing tanks, and environmental outfalls to a central digital network transforms static treatment infrastructure into an intelligent water quality network. By feeding continuous sensor data directly to a cloud platform, site engineers gain complete visibility over chemical balance trends while eliminating manual sampling errors.
Predictive Performance
Continuous historical logging of pH, ORP/Redox potential, and temperature enables predictive chemical dosing and advanced water quality modeling. By analyzing chemical neutralization curves and ORP consumption trends over time, plant engineers can accurately forecast chemical reagent depletion, predict electrode fouling, and schedule probe recalibration at the exact point of need. This data-driven approach prevents over-dosing of costly alkaline or acid neutralizers, stabilizes output water quality, and optimizes the lifespan of water treatment assets.
Compliance Assurance
Continuous automated logging from IP68 submersible combination sensors establishes an unalterable, audit-ready digital ledger of effluent acidity, alkalinity, and oxidation levels. Replacing periodic manual grab samples with real-time telemetry delivered straight to the Ellenex Software Platform allows plant managers to effortlessly prove compliance with EPA, NPDES, and regional environmental discharge permits. Dynamic threshold alarms instantly alert staff if pH levels drift outside legal limits, enabling rapid automated valve shut-off to stop non-compliant wastewater discharge before expensive environmental fines or regulatory shutdowns occur.
Battery-Powered pH Monitoring With LoRaWAN® Or NB-IoT/LTE-M Connectivity For Remote Industrial Water Treatment Units.
Core Operational Capabilities
Potentiometric pH and ORP sensing via combination glass electrode with temperature compensation Sensing Element
LoRaWAN / NB-IoT / LTE-M
IP68 Weatherproof Sensor
IP66 UV-Protected Enclosure
Up to 10-Year Battery Life
Cloud / API / SCADA Integration
Enhancing pH Monitoring in Remote Industrial Water Treatment Units with NB-IoT or LoRaWAN technology
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Effective pH monitoring in remote water treatment facilities is a critical component of ensuring water quality and safety, ultimately contributing to the global aim of sustainable water management.
Industrial Outdoor LoRaWAN Gateway Specifications
For customers deploying the LoRaWAN package, the high-performance industrial gateway provides complete self-managed coverage. It is pre-configured to forward packet data to the Ellenex Platform.
System Architecture
The integrated Solution telemetry platform is designed around a dual-LPWAN (Low Power Wide Area Network) hardware architecture, giving operators the flexibility to deploy either LoRaWAN or cellular-based (supporting NB-IoT and LTE Cat M1) network configurations depending on local infrastructure and regional topology. Both communication technologies represent the cutting edge of industrial IoT, designed to penetrate challenging physical barriers and achieve multi-kilo meter propagation distances while maintaining extremely low electrical current draws.
The Ellenex telemetry pipeline follows a streamlined 4-step end-to-end data flow designed to give customers total choice over their network infrastructure and software platform:
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Sensor: The single Ellenex battery-powered field device directly measures physical parameters, digitizes analog signals, applies factory calibration parameters, packages telemetry into AES-128 encrypted payloads, and manages low-power sleep modes within a unified unit. Learn More:
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Wireless Infrastructure Options:
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Option A (LoRaWAN Option): Transmits sub-GHz radio packets to an Ellenex Pre-Configured Outdoor Gateway. The gateway acts as a transparent Layer-1/Layer-2 RF-to-IP bridge. Learn More
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Option B (Cellular NB-IoT / LTE-M Option): Transmits encrypted telemetry directly across licensed 3GPP cellular networks to public mobile base station towers. Learn More.
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3. Network Core & Data Routing Layer: Encrypted sub-GHz packets are securely routed from the gateway to the Ellenex Network Server (LNS). The LNS manages crucial network functions—including device authentication, payload decryption, and frame deduplication—ensuring clean, secure sensor data is seamlessly delivered to Ellenex Software Platform.
4. Data Processing & Platform Visualization: All telemetry is ingested, decoded, and visualized seamlessly within the Ellenex Cloud Software Platform. The software transforms raw sensor data into actionable insights through real-time dashboards, historical trend analysis, threshold alerting, and device health management.
Connectivity & Visualisation Platform
With its advanced features and ease of use, Ellenex’s software platform enables effective monitoring and management of remote operations—ensuring efficient, sustainable, and reliable resource management.
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Encrypted ultra-low power communication protocol.
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Advanced device inventory.
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Integration of APIs for enterprise systems.
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Multi-tenant role-based access control.
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Data export and import.
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White-label platform for enterprise runs on private accounts.
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Variable alarm setting for high and low thresholds and multi-channel alerting.
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Sampling and transmission interval configuration.
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Transmission condition configuration.
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Other configurations and customizations available on request.
Ellenex's software platform is a comprehensive, user-friendly solution specifically designed for remote monitoring and management.
The platform offers a robust range of features tailored for off grid, distributed, and critical operations, including:
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Real-Time Data Visualization: Monitor live operational status, levels, and key metrics across all your locations from a centralized dashboard.
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Customizable Alerts & Notifications: Receive instant warnings for threshold breaches, sudden drops, or anomalous activity before minor issues become costly failures.
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Historical Data Analysis & Predictive Analytics: Track consumption patterns, analyze usage trends, and forecast future demand to optimize maintenance and supply schedules.
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Seamless System & API Integration: Easily feed raw or aggregated telemetry into your existing enterprise software, SCADA, or ERP systems using Ellenex’s secure Open API.
Key Benefits
Ellenex Software Platform Dashboard
Individual Device Details & Data Analytics View
Parameter Configuration and GPS Location View
Device Management Interface
Historical Data & Performance Analytics
Remote Command and Downlink Control Log
Ellenex Asset Monitoring App
Custom alert and Notification Setup Interface
Data Export and Reporting Interface
Webhook and Data Forwarding Interface
Sensor Calibration and Formula Configuration
Integration Options
A core competitive advantage of the solution is its complete pre-configured, plug-and-play design. Both the cellular and LoRaWAN (with local gateway) variants arrive fully configured and ready for connection to the Ellenex platform out of the box, eliminating the complexities of local software setup, sensor programming, or manual network registration.
The end-to-end package includes the following integration characteristics:
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Zero Technical Hassles: No extra power tools, driver setup, or developer configurations are required. Deployment is completed in under 5 minutes.
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Pre-Configured Gateway Provisioning: The industrial outdoor gateway is pre-commissioned to automatically bind with the Ellenex LNS stack. Once powered via PoE or DC, it immediately discovers sensors, decrypts the payloads, and relays them directly to the centralized cloud dashboard, seamlessly routing data to the Ellenex Platform.
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Pre-Configured SIM & Connectivity: For NB-IoT deployments, the transmitter is shipped with a pre-configured 4FF Nano-SIM card and active carrier subscription, ready to transmit on regional networks immediately upon power-up.
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Unified Fleet Visualization: Once powered on, both device variants automatically check in and populate their respective live measurement streams to the user’s centralized mobile app or web dashboard.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does the pH Monitoring in Remote Industrial Water Treatment Units Solution compensate for temperature fluctuations when measuring pH in open treatment basins?
The pH Monitoring in Remote Industrial Water Treatment Units Solution sensor head incorporates a combination glass electrode equipped with internal automatic temperature compensation (ATC). Because temperature directly alters hydrogen ion activity and glass electrode output slope, the sensor measures water temperature (0-50 °C) alongside potentiometric potential in real time. The internal processor applies mathematical temperature corrections before transmitting digitized, fully compensated pH readings (~2-12 pH) to the Ellenex Software Platform.
How does simultaneous ORP (Oxidation-Reduction Potential) tracking aid industrial water treatment processes in the pH Monitoring in Remote Industrial Water Treatment Units Solution?
In addition to pH, the combination sensor measures ORP in millivolts (-1000 to +1000 mV), providing a direct indicator of oxidizing or reducing conditions in the water. This dual-parameter tracking allows operators to monitor the breakdown of organic pollutants, verify active disinfection stages (such as chlorination or ozonation), and track heavy metal precipitation reactions inside industrial neutralizing tanks.
What cable and mounting options are available for deep treatment tanks or riverbank installations?
The sensor assembly features a heavy-duty, submersible cable available in standard 3-meter or 7-meter lengths, with custom lengths configured on request. The IP68-rated, corrosion-resistant sensor head can be fully submerged into deep holding basins, suspended from flotation buoys in lagoons, or fixed onto outfall channel mounting poles. The transmitter housing achieves an IP68 rating, allowing it to withstand extreme outdoor weather and temporary flood submersion.
How are field technicians notified if acid or caustic chemical leaks alter effluent pH levels?
The Ellenex Software Platform includes a customizable multi-channel alert system. Facility managers can define dynamic high- and low-level threshold boundaries for both pH and ORP values. If a chemical feed pump fails or an acid surge occurs, breaching predefined limits, the platform immediately pushes real-time alert notifications via SMS, email, or app notifications to on-call operational teams for rapid intervention.
What wireless connectivity option is recommended for isolated water discharge points lacking cellular coverage?
For off-grid treatment lagoons, mining tailings dams, or remote river monitoring stations lacking public cellular signals, the LoRaWAN variant (-L) uses sub-GHz radio frequencies to stream packets across long distances to a local, solar-powered Ellenex Outdoor Gateway. Where public mobile coverage is available, the NB-IoT / LTE-M variant (-N) connects directly to cellular towers without local gateway infrastructure
