Your SCADA outlived its vendor. Your best operator retires next year.
HillPoint keeps water and wastewater plants running: verified PLC program backups, an open Ignition/SQL layer on top of the RTUs you already own, alarm rationalization, and phased migrations off controls nobody supports anymore. You own your data and your code.
Start with a 15-minute discussion of your controls and operating requirements.
What HillPoint does for utilities ↓Nobody designed this system. It accumulated.
Twenty-five years of expansions, each automated by whoever won the bid that year. PLC-5s and SLC-500s past end of life. An HMI on Windows XP nobody dares reboot. Lift-station RTUs from a vendor that has been bought and sold twice since the panels went in. It all still runs. That is exactly the problem: it runs on luck and one person's memory.
The fix is a layer on top of what you already own, plus a verified backup of everything underneath it. No rip-and-replace capital project.
Support for your telemetry means a ticket to a company that has changed hands twice. Then a wait. Then a quote for a subscription.
One lead operator knows why Well 4 acts up in August. He is retirement-eligible. There is no backup copy of what's in his head.
The autodialer fires 200 times a night. Operators acknowledge without reading. The one alarm that matters looks exactly like the 199 that don't.
DMRs get keyed by hand from chart recorders and clipboard rounds. AWIA paperwork wants an asset inventory you'd have to write from scratch.
Vendor-neutral. Built on what's already in the panel.
HillPoint doesn't sell a proprietary platform or a monitoring subscription. It puts an open, documented layer on the systems you already run and hands you the keys. Allen-Bradley, Schneider, your existing radios and RTUs, iFIX, Wonderware, VTScada: whatever is in service is the starting point.
An open SCADA layer alongside your RTUs.
Ignition Perspective with a SQL historian, wired next to the RTUs and PLCs you already own. Standard drivers, MQTT where it fits. No rip and replace. Every tag stays readable by anything you buy later.
Verified program backups and disaster recovery.
A dated, restore-tested backup of every PLC and HMI program in the system, with the development software and comm hardware confirmed for each. When a processor dies, it's a restore, not a rebuild.
Alarm rationalization.
Cut the flood down to the alarms an operator should act on. Priorities, deadbands, suppression during known plant states. The midnight callout starts meaning something again.
Compliance reporting from the database, not the clipboard.
Daily numbers pulled straight from SCADA with SQL and Python instead of keyed by hand. Reports that take minutes, with the raw data behind every value when FDEP asks for it.
Phased migrations off end-of-life controls.
PLC-5, SLC-500, legacy PanelView, unsupported Wonderware and iFIX, moved to supported hardware in phases, sequenced around operations, with a tested cutover and a rollback plan. The plant keeps making water the whole time.
Monitoring and support.
Support after commissioning, with agreed remote access, monitoring scope, and response arrangements. Controllers remain off the open internet.
You own your data and your code.
Tags, logic, passwords, program files: documented and handed over. No proprietary lock-in, no subscription you can't leave. If you ever hire a different integrator, everything they need is in your filing cabinet, not ours.
Done in plants like yours.
For a municipal water utility: firmware upgrades, verified program backups, and a disaster-recovery plan across the plant's Allen-Bradley controls. Delivered without interrupting treatment.
Before HillPoint, Will spent years as the controls engineer inside municipal water systems: basin and wetland controls for a municipal water resources department, a PLC replacement at a small-town utility, water treatment plant controls and chlorine analyzer work.
References available on the call. Utilities talk to each other; ask around.
On-site support. Remote engineering.
HillPoint travels to your facility when the work needs to happen on site, with remote engineering and support between visits. Site access and commissioning are planned around treatment operations, with clear responsibilities and documented handover.
Bring the problem.
Discuss the affected equipment, operating constraints, and required outcome. HillPoint will help define the next step for SCADA integration, controls modernization, or recovery planning.
Schedule an initial project discussion.