HOW DOES IT WORK?

Remote Control & Monitoring

The object of our system is to enable the end user and system engineer to have easy to use remote control of almost any small to medium domestic, commercial or industrial installation system at an affordable price. Remote control can save energy and money by having the convenience to switch and change settings and get readouts of what is happening. Monitoring in commercial use opens up many possibilities to help the user.

With remote commercial locations, it reduces the number of service visits and can feedback required information to engineers.
In industrial applications, this can save an enormous amount of time for the system operator and maintenance engineer.
This is not new, but most of the equipment on the market is made for very small or very large systems. The object of this product is to use an easy to program Crozet M3 logic controller as the interface to your system with our M3 to web interface. System readings can be charted on selected outputs with the option of displaying graphs to show trends.

• By using a standard CTs and a maths block in the M3, electricity usage can be monitored.
• By using a water meter with two temperature sensors and maths block, wet energy can be monitored.
• By using electronic depth gauge, pulsed oil flow meter or 0-10volt output meter, tank stored fuel can be metered.

(Please note that these readings may not be used for sale of energy, they are for internal usage only)

Comms

There are two options with reguard to comms, either Pay As You Go or fixed IP sim. With Pay As You Go, the cost is slightly less but you can only update inputs when the equipments sends in reports. This interval is whatever you set the report interval timer at unless there is alarm triggered in the system. With fixed IP you can send in updates as often as you like which will get through within a few minutes together with a return update. If you need to make regular changes, this is probably the best option to choose.

Website and Server Reliability

On the website there are three levels of customer access:

• Engineer access - full access to change control parameters
• User Access - to change selected output settings
• User read only

The telcon and server program has been built by our partners, Ravenbridge Ltd, to a standard generic website. However, if you require a personalised website, our other partners, iResoultions Website Design Ltd, will bbe able to assist you.

There are two options for the web access:

• Use our server, accessed through your password protected web page, at a monthly rental for the service
• Use your server with a program designed for your use with an annual licence fee

The programmed java box for the site end can be outright purchased from Electair.

Reliability

As with all web and mobile phone linked systems, there is a possibility of loss of communication. However, we have three cross linked servers in different locations to handle local outages at our end. This system polls each site in order to send and receive updates.

Mobile phone networks are now very reliable.

Crouzet systems have proved very reliable. When the Crouzet is programmed it is possible to build in default values that the system can default to if signal is lost for set time.

IMPORTANT NOTE: It is very important not to use this system to start equipment that could cause injury or risk of fire.