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EXECUTIVE BRIEFING · GROOTE SCHUUR HOSPITAL · DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
Digital Transformation Strategy
From isolated Industry 3.0 SCADA silos to a living digital estate across 3 Cape Town campuses — Observatory · Mowbray · Rondebosch — sensor to cloud.
INDUSTRY 3.0 · 1980 — 2015
Siloed SCADA Estate
- Proprietary protocols · vendor-locked HMIs
- Data graveyards — no historian, no context
- Reactive, run-to-fail maintenance
- Zero cross-site visibility · paper logbooks
TRANSFORM
INDUSTRY 4.0 · EDGE → CLOUD
Open Microservices Fabric
- Open protocols — MQTT · REST · NATS · mTLS hub & spoke
- Edge analytics — vibration FFT & delta-T flagged in-flight
- Predictive maintenance — work orders raised before failure
- One glass cockpit for chillers, lifts & maintenance
500 msSENSOR POLL CADENCE
16ESP32 EDGE NODES
3 + 1SPOKES · BROKER HUB
11BUILDINGS · 3 CAMPUSES
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SLIDE 02 · PHYSICAL LAYER
Chiller Plant Blueprint — hydronics & instrumentation
4× TRANE CHILLERS4× COOLING TOWERS8× PUMPS40+ INSTRUMENTS
GROOTE SCHUUR HOSPITAL · MAIN BUILDING
Plant Room B1-07 — Live Schematic
HYDRONICLIVEREAL PHOTO

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CHILLER UNITS
4× Trane centrifugal · 850 kW
CHW PIPING
Blue=CHWS 6.8°C · Red=CHWR 12.4°C
PUMP VIBRATION/TEMP
Tri-axial accel + CT clamp · 4-20 mA
PUBLISHING ANTENNA
ESP32 · 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi · MQTT QoS 1
SECONDARY CHW PUMPS
Primary/secondary loop · VFD
SMART SENSORS
ESP32 EDGE
PLANT BRIDGE PI 5
CLUSTER PI 5
CENTRAL BROKER
LIVE PLANT PHOTO · NEW MAIN BUILDING
CLICK REAL PHOTO AGAIN TO RETURN
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SLIDE 03 · WIRELESS SENSING LAYER
Wireless Vibration Sensing — pumps ▸ OEM module ▸ Pi 5 bridge
8 × TRI-AXIAL OEM SENSORS2.4 GHz PROPRIETARY RFSENSOR MODULEDIGITAL · DIN RAIL
PUMP BANK · MAIN BUILDING · DATA FLOWS LEFT ▸ RIGHT
Wireless Vibration Architecture & Data Flow
VIB · ISO 20816500 ms SAMPLEMQTT ▸ PI 5
8 VIB SENSORS
SENSOR MODULE
PI 5 BRIDGE
CENTRAL BROKER▲ 8 SENSORS × 2 Hz
VIB SENSORS8
OEM MODULE1
RF CHANNELS8
SAMPLE RATE500 ms
2.4 GHz RFMQTT PUBLISHUPSTREAM
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SLIDE 04 · EDGE CONTROLLER DIGITAL TWIN
ESP32 Dual-Core Edge Controller — sense ▸ FIFO ▸ publish
DUAL-CORE LX6 ×2RX + TX ANTENNAWIRED + RF I/OIP65 ENCLOSURE
EDGE CONTROLLER · MAIN BUILDING · DATA FLOWS LEFT ▸ RIGHT
ESP32 Digital Twin · Wired + Wireless Sensor Integration
Core 0 · SENSEFIFOCore 1 · PUBLISH
CORE 0 · SENSE
FIFO
CORE 1 · PUBLISH
TX ANT ▸ PI 5 BRIDGE▲ 32 PKT/S · QoS 1
CORES2
ANTENNASRX + TX
WIRED INPUTS8
RF CHANNELS8
WIRED I/ORF RXMQTT TX
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SLIDE 05 · BRIDGE GATEWAY LAYER
Bridge Gateway · Pi 5 — 8 µservices · local broker · hotspot
QUAD-CORE A768 MICROSERVICESLOCAL MQTT BROKERWi-Fi HOTSPOT
PLANT BRIDGE GATEWAY · CHILLER PLANT ROOM · DATA FLOWS LEFT ▸ RIGHT
Local Broker · Protocol Bridge · Technician Hotspot
RS485 · ETH · WLANDOCKER COMPOSE
MOSQUITTO · LOCAL
NATS-SYNC
CAMPUS CLUSTER PI 5
CENTRAL BROKERLEGACY ▸ BRIDGED72 h BUFFER
µSERVICES8
QUAD CORES4
INPUT STREAMS3
HOTSPOT6 CLI
LEGACY ▸ BRIDGEMQTT INSPOKE ▸ HUBHOTSPOT
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SLIDE 06 · EDGE & CLUSTER LAYER
Distributed Edge Network — hub & spoke · sensor to broker
HUB & SPOKERPi 5 ×4mTLS PUBLISHNATS SYNC
ESTATE TOPOLOGY · HUB & SPOKE · DATA FLOWS UPWARD
Sensors ▸ Plant Bridge ▸ Campus Cluster ▸ Central Broker
VLAN 40 · FIELDVLAN 50 · CAMPUSVLAN 60 · ESTATE
SMART SENSORS
PLANT BRIDGE
CENTRAL MQTT BROKER · HUB
CLOUD APPSMODBUS/BACNET ▸ BRIDGE ▸ BROKER
EDGE NODES16
µSERVICES4
SPOKES3
HUB1
FIELD I/O ▸ BRIDGEWLAN MQTTCAMPUS FABRICSPOKE ▸ HUB
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SLIDE 07 · ENTERPRISE LAYER
Unified Enterprise Glass Cockpit
SSOUNIFIED API
IoT HUB · DIGITAL TWIN ● LIVE
PLANT LOAD71%
COP5.42
TWIN ENTITIES212
LATENCY38 ms
LIFT STATUS ● LIVE
● L1THEATRE WINGL6→L2 · 2 PAX
● L2MAIN COREL2→L8 · 4 PAX
● L3MAIN COREE-32 · HELD
● L4MOWBRAY LINKMRO · 02:00
◆ EMERGENCY TRIP INTERLOCK · CARS RECALLED ON FIRE ALARM
LAST ENTRY · 14:22 — "L3 DOOR RETEST OK" — T. NDLOVU
E-ENGINEERING CMMS AUTO-WO
P1WO-2417
NEW
Pump P-02 bearing replacement
TRIGGER · VIB 4.7 mm/s ▸ ISO ZONE C · DUE 24h
P2WO-2413
DISPATCHED
CH-02 condenser fouling
TRIGGER · COP 4.91 ▸ -8% · TECH EN-ROUTE
P3WO-2408
COMPLETED
CT-03 basin clean
CLOSED 11:40 · 1.6 h
BEARING ×4SEAL ×2CONTACTOR ×1ANT ×6
JDJ. DUBE · HVAC
TNT. NDLOVU · LIFTS
SPS. PATEL · ELECT
CENTRAL MQTT BROKER · HUB
IoT HUB
LIFT TRACKER
CMMSSSO · OIDC
▲ THRESHOLD BREACH · P-02 VIB 4.7 mm/s ▸ WO-2417 AUTO-RAISED
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SLIDE 08 · GEO-DIGITAL TWIN
Estate Geographic Twin — 3 campuses · 11 buildings
OBSERVATORYMOWBRAYRONDEBOSCH
CAPE TOWN SOUTHERN SUBURBS · HUB & SPOKE
Estate 3D Campus Map
◆ WEBGL · THREE.JS
DRAG TO ORBIT · SCROLL TO ZOOM · CLICK BUILDING
LIVE SATELLITE
SELECT BUILDING
Building:—
Campus:—
Coordinates:—
Status:—
Edge Nodes:—
11
BUILDINGS
3
SPOKES
1
BROKER HUB
21 m
ELEVATION
OBSERVATORY-33.9378S 18.4708E
New MainOld MainL-BlockHRDMaternityEngineeringOPDCarinusClarendon
MASTER SPOKE38ms
MOWBRAY-33.9436S 18.4819E
Legrotties Creche
SPOKE42ms
RONDEBOSCH-33.9628S 18.4792E
William Slater · 1 Klipfontein Rd
SPOKE45ms
ADDRESSES
📍 Main Road, Observatory, Cape Town, 7925
📍 Mowbray, Cape Town, 7700
📍 1 Klipfontein Road, Rondebosch, 7700
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SLIDE 09 · MAIN SERVER LAYER
Main Server Digital Twin — 5 containers · all campuses publish inward
DOCKER HOST5 CONTAINERSCENTRAL BROKERSUPABASE DB
MAIN SERVER · IT DATA CENTRE · ALL CAMPUS CLUSTERS PUBLISH HERE
Docker-Containerized Estate Platform
24 CORES · 128 GBSSD RAID-102× 10 GbE
OBS · MOW · RON BROKERS
CENTRAL MQTT BROKER
SUPABASE DB
APPS · 3D TWIN
CONTAINERS5
CPU CORES24
RAM128 GB
ESTATE UPTIME99.98%
CAMPUS PUBLISHDB PERSISTAPP FEED
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SLIDE 10 · EXECUTIVE CLOSING
The Business Case — ROI & roadmap
24-MONTHESTATE-WIDE
PROJECTED RETURN · 24-MONTH MODEL
-18%ENERGY COST/m²
-41%DOWNTIME
+31%ASSET LIFESPAN
9 moPAYBACK
DEPLOYMENT ROADMAP
PHASE 0 · COMPLETE · WE ARE HERE
Strategy & Architecture Planning
Estate audit · hub & spoke design · vendor selection
PHASE 1 · NEXT
Observatory Plant Instrumentation
8 vib sensors · OEM module · Pi-5 bridge
PHASE 2 · PLANNED
Hub & Spoke Broker Estate
3 spokes · central MQTT broker · unified API
PHASE 3 · PLANNED
Mowbray & Rondebosch Buildout
Legrotties + William Slater
PHASE 4 · PLANNED
Predictive AI · Chiller Optimizer
ML setpoints · −7% COP target
PHASE 5 · PLANNED
Estate Twin Certification
ISO 23247 · BIM integration
"Every chiller cycle, every lift trip, every work order — one living digital estate."
GROOTE SCHUUR HOSPITAL · INDUSTRY 4.0 PROGRAM · 2025
