Xylem Shows Field Smart Technology at ConExpo

Xylem’s Godwin Field Smart Technology (FST) and Godwin PrimeGuard 2 controller provide contractors working in remote locations with crucial pump operating data that can significantly reduce or eliminate the need for expensive, onsite personnel to monitor pumps manually.

Michael Roth

March 12, 2017

Xylem’s Godwin PrimeGuard 2 is a fully programmable microprocessor engine control system that allows for inputs from flow meters, level transducers, pressure transducers or standard floats. Using the data from any of these systems, Godwin Dri-Prime pumps can be programmed to start/stop automatically with no operator intervention required. Used in tandem with PrimeGuard 2, FST is a premium solution for any contractor.

FST can monitor engine, motor, and pump operation conditions (such as operating hours, speed, engine temperature, and fuel consumption) as well as pump parameters such as suction and discharge pressure, sump level, and flow data. Pump data can be accessed remotely from any device in the world with an internet connection. FST enables the operator to remotely start, stop, and set engine speed, and alarms can be set to alert for operating or performance failures. For reporting purposes, pump data can be logged and documented, or even tied back to a SCADA system for ultimate system efficiencies and control.

About the Author

Michael Roth

Editor

Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.