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How many times have you heard or read the above statement over the pass few years? Operation experts across the country are proclaiming that careful, attentive managing of your Lift Stations will reduce your maintenance, employee over-time, and liability costs. But justifying the expense of manually monitoring and report generation or the purchase price of an expensive Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) system to perform this work automatically is a daunting task. And as true as the above statement is, most utilities simply can not afford to save money this way! That is until now.

By combining the almost unlimited capabilities of the Internet with the near universal access of Cellular Telephone, using over 50 years of experience in water and wastewater control and telemetry, the engineers at CrosStar have created the LiftStar Lift Station Monitoring System. Consisting of the LiftStar LS1000 Liftstation Unit and the CrosStar Secure Central Computer System, the LiftStar System provides advance features only found in expensive computer controlled SCADA systems for less than the cost of a simple alarm dialing system.

But the LiftStar LS1000 is not just a “Wireless Dialer”, but a subscription-based SCADA and Application service designed solely for lift station monitoring. Thus it offers advance intelligent pump and alarm monitoring out of the box that other systems can not. In fact, there are no local adjustments, configuration switches, or jumpers to set on the LiftStar LS1000. With the simple information you setup on CrosStar’s New Station Web page, and the station operation during the first week after installation, the LS1000 learns all it needs to know to properly monitor the station. Thus providing advance problem notification long before the station “breaks down” so another Sunday afternoon or night’s sleep is not lost and expensive employee over-time is avoided.

The CrosStar Secure Central Computer System, located at CrosStar’s offices in the mid-western United States, provides all the required computer operation for the system. Consisting of several interconnected server-grade computers in a secure location, with long term power backup, CrosStar has setup a redundant, hot-standby computer system that only the very largest of utilities could afford to install and maintain. Using state of the art software, the CrosStar Central Computer System receives all the communications from the installed LiftStar LS1000 units nation wide, stores the information per individual utility system, provides alarm notification to utility personnel, and maintains each utility’s web site with current data. Thus, CrosStar’s LiftStar system can provide the features, functions, and reliability of an expensive SCADA system to a large number of utilities for a very low monthly fee.