Programmable Wireless Remote Monitoring System - Insite
Insite, a programmable global alert and monitoring system (PGAMS), is a fully integrated monitoring and tracking device that delivers alarms and information to your cell phone as text messages.
SMALL FACTORY and OFFICE APPLICATIONS
Remote Factory Equipment Monitoring System
Monitoring and Control for Intelligent Manufacturing
Remote monitoring and control are crucial in decentralized manufacturing environments. This is evidenced by today"s distributed shop floors where agility and responsiveness are required to maintain high productivity and flexibility.
Insite has been developed to help support remote diagnostics and maintenance systems in supporting globally integrated manufacturing activities. The development of a remote diagnostics and maintenance system (RDMS) provides manufacturers and users with great flexibility in conducting manufacturing activities.
Insite can be used to manage many of the systems found in an office, factory or warehouse.
Below are a few installation ideas:
In the above installation, Insite is used to monitor the security alarm system.
It also uses the telemetry inputs to convert a pressure transducer signal for oil-tank level into a 'Gallons' readout. When polled for a reading, Insite may give the following response:
"Insite telemetry 2: Oil level Warehouse: 20 gallons"
Not shown, a pressure switch could be used to give a message to the oil replenishment company when the level of oil gets below a critical point. For example the following could be automatically sent from Insite to the oil company, a neighbor and your cell phone in another State:
"Insite warning: low oil at 45 Icy Cove Rd., Snappydale...unattended (303) 123-4567"
A switch function monitors the emergency generator pilot lamp indicating it is running. The Fuel tank level for the same generator is also remotely monitored. These functions can be set up to message ONLY the personnel responsible for the respective system.
Another switch can be connected to a server output that alarms when say the broadband carrier is lost, indicating a potential loss in sales or customer support. The following Insite message can go straight to the I.T. manager's cell phone and also the local duty Service Engineer:
" Acorp broadband carrier lost....10th fl. 4310 Maple St. server".
All messages are time-stamped and on the record.
If say in a data center, there is HVAC failure or Power failure, an alarm can go out to the HVAC service crew, or the emergency generator repair company. When Temperatures are back to normal, or power is restored, a message can go out to management or their email address as a record.