Alumnus Edward Pultar (PhD 2011) recently announced his company’s latest developments, using the brainchild he and his brother created, Valarm (“Versatile Asset Locator And Remote Monitor”), a powerful software platform for collecting geo-located sensor data:
- We’re helping an upstream Oil & Gas company monitor their water resources. This fall we teamed up with Esri to perform water monitoring for effective water management. These remote environmental monitoring units are now monitoring how much water a natural gas company has available in their reservoirs at any time.
- How do you monitor the amount of water you or your customers are using? We recently deployed water flow monitors for the North Platte Natural Resources District (NPNRD) of Nebraska. The deployment will help the NPNRD save time, money, and the environment since it cuts out driving to thousands of water meters every year. Now with the real-time sensor data the NPNRD can do more analysis and more effectively manage water!
- How do you put a decades-old wine grape harvester into the cloud? Check out how Valarm added telemetry to Scheid Vineyard’s harvesting machines for optimizing precision agriculture.
- Has remote environmental monitoring changed recently? Here’s a story on the old and new of remote monitoring for farmers.
Editor’s note: For more about Valarm, see the January 16, 2013 article “Alumnus Develops Mobile App to Monitor Anything, Anywhere” and the May 20, 2014 article “Valarmy at Esri PUG 2014.”
