Case study · Energy and utilities
Remote oil and gas pipeline monitoring with Instaroute
Rugged cellular links along pipelines, carrying sensor and SCADA data from remote valve and pumping stations.
The challenge
Pipelines cross long, remote stretches. Pressure, flow and leak sensors at each station have to report continuously, and valves must respond to commands from the control room.
Stations are hard to reach, so equipment has to be reliable and manageable without a visit.
How Nexapp solved it
Speaks the site's protocols
RS232/RS485 serial ports, a Modbus RTU/ASCII/TCP gateway, DNP3, IEC 60870-5-101/104 and MQTT, so existing controllers and meters connect without replacement.
Cellular links that stay up
Instaroute 4G and 5G routers with dual-SIM failover between two operators, and outdoor IP65 units that mount where the signal is best.
Encrypted end to end
IPsec tunnels on NexappOS with hybrid post-quantum key exchange (ML-KEM), on by default, back to the control centre.
One console for every site
Instaroute SDWAN Lite 2.0 shows the health, signal and data usage of every router, with zero-touch set-up and canary firmware rollout, wave by wave.
What changed
- Station data reaches the SCADA control room continuously.
- SCADA traffic is encrypted end to end.
- Stations are monitored and maintained remotely.
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