ARC Informatique and Ubiquicom join forces to bring location awareness and safety to SCADA application

ARC Informatique is an independent provider in HMI/SCADA software. With its core product, PcVue®, the company has been contributing to the evolution of the automation industry for 30 years. The PcVue solutions range provides a flexible solution for supervising industrial processes, utilities and infrastructure. Based in Milan, Italy, Ubiquicom is an award-winning technology company specialised in the design and development of products and solutions for the positioning and tracking of people and assets in unconventional contexts and using unconventional technologies.

The two companies at the forefront of technological innovations chose to collaborate and combine their skills to offer a unique mobility solution. This partnership manifests a joint effort to instil mobility at the heart of supervisory systems – a deliberate move from ARC Informatique in order to step into the field of Internet of Things (IoT) by interfacing with established networks such as LoRa, Sigfox, etc.

New features for Indoor & Outdoor Positioning Services

Based on the real-time monitoring of biometric and environmental parameters, Ubiquicom adds an upper layer application to the PcVue Geo Map Control with its Locator Suite.

Easy to configure and performed via Web services, these new features allow the detection and tracking of people and assets directly displayed as PcVue markers (which can be symbols) in a geographical map. This detection and tracking is efficient whether indoors and outdoors regardless of the network´s type and available communications (GSM, WiFi, Bluetooth, BLE).

Through this collaboration, ARC Informatique reaffirms its ambition to provide an innovative mobile offering for SCADA. Founded in 1981 and certified ISO 9001 and 14000, the company is establishing an international presence through direct technical and sales offices in the US, Europe and Asia.

PcVue solutions provide a flexible solution for supervising industrial processes, utilities and infrastructure. It meets industrial standards of reliability, security and performance while maintaining the user-friendliness of an office application. It spans requirements from single-user standalone applications to complex client-server systems with redundancy.

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