Lewisburg Sewer Authority Technology Upgrade

Back in March, the Lewisburg Area Joint Sewer Authority brought in for repair a workstation that monitors the plant. Attempts were made to fix the computer, but it was discovered that the motherboard was damaged and replacement was impractical for such an old computer. It was decided that a complete replacement was the best action so we quoted and sold them a workstation based on Intel workstation building blocks.

Catch: It needed to run Windows XP until the new software was ready. Not an issue with Intel workstations, they provided the hardware and drivers necessary.

One issue was the data contained on the old computer. It was needed by the engineers that designed the monitoring software. We were able to install the RAID card and SCSI drives in a loaner and send it and the new workstation to the engineers. They were able to boot the loaner and extract all the data as well as set it up on the new workstation. A special I/O card was used as well as a software liscense hasp. Both devices were able to function in the modern workstation.

After some minor changes onsite, the system was operational, allowing the staff to monitor the system from the control room and the lab.

Computition was also selected to upgrade the front office computers and server. LAJSA selected custom-built Computition workstations and a NAS (Network Attached Storage) to replace an aging Windows 2003 server. With careful configuration, we were able to support their old Okidata dot-matrix printer.

In less than 2 days, Computition was able to completely transition their office computers and server to the new equipment. The office was only without their business information for a couple hours during the transition.