Remote Generator Monitoring & Alerting

Remote generator monitoring and alerting systems provide real-time performance data, automated reporting, fault diagnostics, and proactive maintenance insights that help commercial and remote facilities reduce downtime, extend generator life, and lower operating costs.

Remote alerting technology gives you 24/7 online access to your generator’s health, ensuring it's always ready to start when you need it. In many situations, it can make the difference between a simple repair and a catastrophic breakdown when the machine is needed most. Using internet-based monitoring systems, remote generator monitoring can provide several benefits that make it indispensable to most commercial and some retail applications.

Real-time monitoring

A significant benefit of remote generator monitoring is its real-time nature. With a remote generator monitoring system, there is no need to send out a technician to physically inspect the machine at regular intervals to ensure performance and reliability. Real-time statistics are available at the click of a button.

Long-term performance monitoring

An understated benefit of remote monitoring systems is their capacity to provide long-term quantitative data about the performance and reliability of a power generation system. This long-term data can be essential in helping technicians to track the wear and tear of specific parts of the system, allowing technicians to identify, maintain, and repair problems before catastrophic failure.

Proactive issue detection and repair

In the same vein, remote monitoring allows for a proactive approach to issue detection, maintenance, and repair. Vital fluid levels, heat, and energy output are tracked consistently, allowing technicians to identify the beginnings of an issue prior to the point of a drop in performance.

Automated reports

Using a remote generator monitoring system, it is no longer required to manually inspect the system at the same regular intervals that may be necessary without one. The system automatically produces day-by-day performance reports, allowing for unparalleled security and ease of use. These reports document run hours, load levels, alarms, and system events, creating a service history that supports warranty claims and compliance requirements. They also make it easier to identify usage patterns, such as frequent low-load operation, that can shorten engine life if left uncorrected.

Reduced downtime

Without a remote generator monitoring and alerting system, a mechanical failure in a remote area may not be discovered for hours or even days. In the event of a failure in a monitored system, however, technicians are alerted to the problem immediately and dispatched quickly to complete a repair. This dramatically reduces the amount of time that a system will stay down, enabling operations to continue with minimal to no substantial interruption. Remote monitoring can also capture fault codes and event histories, giving technicians exact diagnostic data before arriving on-site, so the correct parts and tools are brought the first time.

Increased reliability and reduced costs

A remote monitoring system allows technicians to identify minor issues before they become critical ones. Many issues that may arise within a generator are not immediately apparent to the naked eye until they have progressed to such a point that the machine is overheating, experiencing power dips, or failing. Small issues are easier, and not to mention cheaper, to repair than these major disruptive events. As a result, remote monitoring is a small price to pay for lower overall costs throughout the machine’s life cycle and improvements in overall reliability.

Don’t wait. Choose the right remote generator monitoring system with GenTech.

At GenTech, we have utilized our decades of power generation experience to become industry leaders in the design, implementation, and upkeep of remote generator monitoring and alerting systems. Whether it’s for a weekend cabin getaway or a major rural industrial operation, you can count on us to be there when you need us most and quicker than anyone else, through our premier remote monitoring systems. Contact us today to learn more.