Built as one system, not assembled from parts
Aegis Sentinel designs and builds both halves from our Melbourne workshop: the hardware, the firmware, the cellular delivery and the DataScape platform behind it. That matters because remote monitoring fails at the joins. When a site goes quiet, the question is usually whose problem it is — the logger, the SIM, the network or the portal. Here there is one answer and one number to call.
We build specifically for remote sites, which shapes every design decision. Power comes from inside the unit. Data collection, storage and communication are all in one enclosure, sized to last years rather than months in the field, without mains supply and without a technician revisiting to keep it running.
What it's used for
Around 6,000 DataCell devices report into DataScape across more than 60 customers. They fall into four broad areas:
- Corrosion and cathodic protection — rectifier output, test point potentials, drainage bonds, and synchronised interruption for close interval surveys. More on CP monitoring
- Water networks — flow and pressure management, reservoir and tank levels, leak detection across reticulated networks, tanker filling and hydrant management.
- Wastewater and environment — sewer levels, blockages and overflow alarming, rainfall and stormwater catchments, trade waste monitoring.
- Industry and utilities — electricity, gas and water metering, sub-metering of industrial processes, generator exercising, temperature monitoring for refrigeration.
The common thread is a measurement somewhere inconvenient that somebody currently drives to. If you can measure it, we can collect it, store it and tell you when it moves.
What changes when a network is monitored
- Fewer visits. Site inspections become the ones that need a technician, not the ones the schedule demands.
- Faults found when they happen. Alarms go out by SMS or email the moment a threshold is crossed, rather than at the next quarterly round.
- Records that stand up. Every reading is timestamped automatically. No transcription errors, no gaps, no reconstructing a year of readings before an audit.
- Decisions on evidence. Trends over months show which assets are actually degrading, rather than which ones were visited most recently.
For most customers the service pays for itself inside the first year on avoided site visits alone.
Supported here
Hardware is designed for Australian conditions — coastal salt air, roadside pits, flood-prone easements and outback heat. Support comes from the people who designed it, in this timezone.
We work with utilities, government and industrial operators to cut operating cost, reduce consumption and keep assets in service longer.
