ADCA Transforms its Quality Monitoring with a Dedicated IoT Platform

Discover how ADCA revolutionized the quality monitoring of its cathodic protections: a tailor-made IoT platform capable of centralizing over five million data points per year, offering instant visibility, both on-site and remotely.

Context & Challenges

ADCA already had an initial IoT platform, but it was reaching its limits: inflexible, difficult to deploy at end-customer sites, and unable to easily display large volumes of data. Their ambition was therefore to transition to a more technical and professional solution, capable of growing with their needs.

Client's Activity:

ADCA designs, produces, and markets cathodic protection systems aimed at preventing corrosion in buried pipelines. Their activity leads them to instrument clients' equipment with IoT sensors for real-time quality monitoring.

Support Model:

DEEP provided end-to-end support: functional and technical framing, development of a containerized platform, cloud or on-premise deployment, and then operational maintenance (MCO) for end-users.

Damien CAPAÏ - General Manager at ADCA

Mission Objectives:

  • Centralize and ensure data reliability: Aggregate all field sensor readings into a single point to facilitate analysis.
  • Real-time visualization: Enable teams and clients to easily view curves and key indicators.
  • Scalability & portability: Make the platform quickly deployable in the cloud or on client infrastructures using Docker containers.
  • Predictive maintenance: Generate automatic alerts to anticipate breakdowns and quality deviations.

The Support Process

Business workshops were conducted to define quality indicators, target data volume, and data export requirements.

This involved creating a micro-services architecture, implementing a progressive loading algorithm to display over 5 million data points, and using Docker packaging to ensure consistent deployments.

The platform was installed at ADCA and then at the first end-clients, with 24/7 supervision and continuous evolutions provided via Digora's managed service.

Client Benefits

  • Controlled Quality: Instant visibility into the performance of cathodic protections.
  • Reduced Unplanned Downtime: Automated alerts allow intervention before a breakdown impacts production.
  • Time Savings for Technicians: Remote consultation and diagnosis, reducing on-site travel.
  • Sustainable and Evolving Platform: Containerized architecture ready to integrate new features proposed by end-users.