A west coast customer presented a challenging situation, they were responsible for taking meter readings at several remote hydroelectric schemes which were quite difficult to access, particularly during the frequent periods of wet and blustery conditions commonplace to the area.
A solution was derived whereby a small webserver was deployed on an ultra-low power embedded device, presenting the meter readings on a simple webpage with an extra function to automatically email readings at set intervals.
Due to the very remote and rugged locations, physical cabling was not an option and the local phone network strength was very low. With this in mind the webserver was configured to use only the smallest amounts of bandwidth to deliver its data with a ‘no-frills’ approach in order to make the most efficient use of the few Kilobytes per second available.
