SCS Engineers and Corso Systems win 2019 Firebrand Award for SCS RMC

SCS Engineers, Long Beach, California, and Chicago-based Corso Systems announced they jointly received a 2019 Firebrand Award at the annual Ignition Community Conference (ICC) held Sept. 17-19 in Folsom, California. According to the companies, the firms won recognition for SCS’s Remote Monitoring and Control, or SCS RMC, program—a next-generation visualization and control system for landfills and pipelines.

The pilot project featuring this system took place at the San Timoteo Landfill in San Bernardino County, California. The county needed a landfill enterprise solution that was easily accessible online and mobile-enabled, the companies say. SCS and Corso used the SCS RMC program to provide a flexible, scalable platform integrated with Ignition 8 and Ignition Perspective. The options include 3D imaging from drones and virtual reality. SCS uses aerial data from their drones to compose topographic mapping, 2D images, 3D renderings, GIS, thermal, near-infrared (NIR), and methane leak detection for waste facilities.

After flying the San Timoteo Landfill, uploading the imagery and mapping the facility, they embedded both the 2D images and 3D rendering into Perspective. The team can take those rendered images and apply them into a Microsoft HoloLens VR headset as well, which allows decision-makers at San Bernardino County to “walk the site” from their offices, the companies say. Now, landfill executives and operators can view their sites remotely from any device.

Other benefits include:

• Internal and regulatory reports are completed automatically extracting data from the system, reducing operations and management costs and minimizing human error.
• The county receives instant notification of malfunctions and can troubleshoot these notifications remotely.
• The system is Java-free to comply with the information technology systems.
  

A video on the 2019 ICC Award website explains how the system works and what landfill owners and operators can expect. Detailed information about SCS’s drone and remote monitoring and control are available at https://www.scsengineers.com/services/scsetools/remote-monitoring-control/.