Is Remote Monitoring System Worth the Investment

Remote device monitoring is the process by which it is possible to intelligently connect your company’s products to each other, and to the workforce. By remote monitoring here it is mean that the acquisition of useful information and data is sent from a device at a remote location back to the home office, the manufacturer or the tech support office.

You may be wondering as to what is all this hype about remote monitoring system? But actual fact of the matter is that such data enabled and intelligent, remotely located devices are capable of solving many business requirements as mentioned below:

1. It helps reduce the labour costs by shortening the support call durations. This is achieved by the help desk personnel being able to monitor the parameters right where they are.

2. It provides an important feature where it is possible to receive timely notifications of low inventory or consumables before they actually run out.

3. Furthermore it provides the important feature of understanding how the customer is using the product and its individual features.

4. However it is up to the company personnel to immediately act towards solving any alerts received on the system for maintenance or repair.

5. All this ensures that the system uptime and thus improves customer satisfaction.

Only smart and efficient organization can understand the usefulness and value of real time data collection to their organization. The fact that you have information regarding what your device is doing at all times like if it is working, or how it is being used etc., greatly improves the response quality and enables change and promotes informed decisions that can affect the entire company.

Such solutions are not easy to setup and the network infrastructure is also complicated and it is often a lingering question in the minds of such companies that would it be worth the investment. The answer to that is pretty obvious now that the feature provides outweighs the cost by a mile.
Advanticsys is a company that specialize in the field of industrial remote monitoring systems and is a well established company too providing many such solutions.

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Cellular Technology for Remote Systems Monitoring

Cellular technology can offer the perfect balance between cost effectiveness and simplicity for remote systems monitoring when establishing connection to a control centre. Cellular technology can be incorporated into a remote monitoring project whether it is a new setup or upgrading an existing one.

Opting for it:

Remote equipment monitoring is used in the field of industrial automation to keep the site administrators well informed. The factors that are monitored and transmitted across to the administrators include equipment health, usage levels, unauthorized access and even environmental conditions. The remote data thus collected is done via the management control centre which is connected via RS-485 or Ethernet, depending on the distance and type of management system used. But if the distance is slightly more and if cabling is not feasible then using cellular technology is a good option.

Advantages:

There are several advantages of opting for cellular technology over other options. For one there is no need to lay long cables over very long distances. Cabling can be quite difficult at times depending on the terrain and implementing cellular technology eliminates that.  The remote site that uses cellular technology can be monitored from enumerable locations besides the control centre thus providing flexibility of some level. This also gives you the option of connecting to your remote site and monitoring the parameters via a mobile device such as a cell phone or even a PDA.  Besides which it by far more cost effective and efficient method to monitor many sites at a time since it can be done from any location. To top it all there is no infrastructure to invest in since that is already provided by the cellular company.

Usage:

It does make a lot of sense to incorporate cellular technology into the monitoring systems in many situations like if the remotes site is isolated and if it is not tied to the existing infrastructure.  It is also good at times where you require high scalability and  have space limitations.
Advanticsys is a company that was established in 2009 and has a good background in information and communication technologies; where the specialise in the field of wireless sensor networks as well as other industrial remote monitoring systems.

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Cellular Air-conditioner Monitoring

The air conditioner market is becoming very competitive these days with more manufacturers offering various options at even more attractive prices. These manufacturers have one thing in common they try to provide a better service by reducing their maintenance costs. In fact many manufacturers have introduced a feature where they can monitor their Air conditioners over the cellular network. This enables the air conditioner manufacturers to centrally manage their products in the following way:

1. Supplying the operating data to the R&D department, to ensure that it is analyzed and the functioning of the product can be improved.

2. Notifying the engineering staff of potential failure in order to avoid and damage or losses.

3. Putting remote monitoring devices in place to maintain the air conditioners remotely thus saving business trip costs.

The air conditioner manufacturers are able to provide their customers with several value added services which include status analysis, running diagnosis and maintenance services. Since this is done remotely where there is no means of communications; the ideal means of communications that was sought after was the cellular communication. This is not only cost effective but is sufficient to send the data across. Thus remote sensors could be used to measure the status including the temperature and humidity, even vibration amplitude of the air conditioner. This information could be sent to the central location at the data center. This enables the manufacturer to monitor the air conditioners performance remotely.

MPC-374

MPC-333

MPC-330

Thus GSM/GPRS remote communication controllers such as MPC-143 can be used to satisfy the remote transmission requirements. This reduces the number of devices required and provides faster and easier installation, which leads to additional savings. The MPC-143 also have many additional features like battery management; it is possible for the remote monitoring device to charge the battery and use it to power the system in event of a black out. It also provides the feature of an integrated data-logger where the data is stored on the internal memory. In the event of a communication leak, the information remains stored providing security and reliability to the entire system. The SMS sending feature enables users to define events or alarms which could initiate the SMS sending system resulting in a quick response to malfunction.  Advanticsys is capable of providing such a system.

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Selecting a Remote Dataloggers – The Complete Solutions of Industrial Remote Monitoring System

A data logger is an electronic device that is capable of recording data over time or in relation to the location either with a built in instrument or sensor of via external instrument and sensors. These data loggers are often based on a digital processor. They are usually very small and battery powered as well as portable and equipped with internal memory for data storage. It is often possible in some of the data loggers that there is a feature to interface with the personal computer and utilize software to activate the data logger and view and analyze the data collected. There are also however models which don’t have such a feature and use a local interface like keypad.

Data loggers can be general purpose type or be very specific devices for measuring in a specific environment or application type. Usually the general purpose types are programmable. Electronic data loggers have replaced chart recorder in numerous applications. Data loggers have the ability to automatically collect data round the clock. In fact after being deployed they can be left unattended to measure and record information for the duration of the monitoring period. This provides a comprehensive and accurate picture of the environmental conditions being monitored such as air temperature and relative humidity. Moreover the cost of such remote monitoring equipment is on the decrease as well.

Often Solar power may be used as a power source for these remote data loggers. It is also required for these data loggers to function in tough environmental conditions where computers will not function reliably. Thus data loggers must be extremely reliable.

Advanticsys offers several data loggers for this purpose and has been in this industry since quite a while. The data loggers send saved data to remote users over Modbus TCP/IP, Modbus RTU, IEC60870-5-104:2000, SNTP and other protocols. They offer four different series for analog/digital inputs acquisition, including support for remote temperature monitoring system applications as well as industrial standard signals. However its main application is as remote temperature sensor in a wide variety of markets such as agriculture, water quality or any other environmental solution. They have the following data loggers to offer:

AIM – 8: 8-ch Analog Input compact Controller & Datalogger
DIN – 32: Modbus Over Ethernet 32-Discrete Input controller
MPC – 143: Datalogger GPRS/GSM LAN
MPC – 134: Datalogger GSM/GPRS controller with analog and digital I/O

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