Technological Infrastructure for Asset Monitoring Systems

The knowledge of the condition of the assets allows companies to make wise decisions about the different activities that are executed on the equipment; maintenance, operation, disposal and renovation, in order to have greater competitiveness with high reliability. Monitoring systems are always the fundamental enabler to get to know the precise condition of the assets. However, sometimes the information provided by these systems is not used properly; either because it does not reach the appropriate sites to be used or because the monitoring system is isolated from the management systems or because the system is not operational, and nobody has noticed it. This paper presents the results of a monitoring platform implemented in ISA INTERCOLOMBIA and shows the basis for a present architecture, designed for the future with a view for interoperability, flexibility, low cost and easy expansion for the different systems that intend to integrate in the future. The establishment of this architecture guarantees the use and integration, with the different information systems, of the data. Consequently, data is converted into useful information for the business objectives.