Communication & Control Systems

A. Remote Site Monitoring & Control System

Failure of equipment and long recovery time would mean increase in operational cost and reduction in profit. As it is not always practical to have redundancy in all the equipment, whether technically or financially, equipment failure is inevitable. Maintenance program and response to fault call for system located in geographically distributed remote area are always time consuming and costly. Worse of all, false alarms generated by the equipment not only waste the time of the maintenance crew but also incur heavy cost to the company.

Does that mean that we are always keeping our finger crossed, hoping that there will no failure for today and hope for the same for tomorrow? Of course, the answer is NO. With Remote Monitoring and Control System, or RMCS in short, you can have a full view of the system operational status, monitor the important parameters and control them, if necessary. This is can be done even the system is located in a far and remote site that is without any physical communication means.

Communication to the remote sites can be of any means. Physical connections such as Local Area Network (LAN), Wide Area Network (WAN), leased line are just one of the many communication medium. For the sites without any physical connection, the RMCS can also use GSM, PCN, WI-FI, WI-MAX etc as a communication medium.

With RMCS, you can integrate many different system together and operate them under one single platform. Security system, building automation system, fire detection system, HVAC etc can be integrated to RMCS, even they are from different manufacturer. This unique integration, control and management products unlock the full potential of building services, bringing capabilities and functions to optimize building performance and streamline site supervision.

The beauty of the RMCS is that it does not only monitor and control a single site but multiple sites – real time! Now, the operators can monitor and control a system or a group of systems remotely. The operator is able to view status, alarms, change parameters, configure and control the system real time through RMCS. Thanks to RMCS, company can now concentrate on new business development without being tie down by high maintenance and repair cost.

Companies with many geographically distributed remote sites, for example, telecoms cell sites, power sub stations, campus environment, multiple buildings, many building locations spread across country etc., will definitely benefit from the deployment of RMCS.

For a more detailed description of RMCS, please download the followings:

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Product	Brief Description
Commander	Commander is a link between devices and an IP network. Commander has a 10Base-T Ethernet port supporting a range of IP protocols, including DHCP, SMTP, HTML, IPBUS and BACNet.
Commander Alarms	The alarm handling capabilities of Commander include alarm distribution and routing, event history, SNMP trap notification, e-mail notification, and the monitoring of values.
Commander Control	This document describes the operation and configuration of the data acquisition and control based modules within Commander.
Commander Networking	This document describes the operation and configuration of the Ethernet based modules within Commander.
Compass	Compass is a distributed protocol conversion system, and allows control systems from several different manufacturers to be linked together to form one complete building control system that can share values over a network.
Compass Alarms	Different systems produce different alarms – the Compass driver converts these alarms to a common ‘Alarm Message’ format, and can then deliver the alarm message in a variety of ways.
Compass NetLinks	If more than 63 points are required or the distribution of Compass Points over a large area, it is possible to link Compass Network’s together using NetLink Compass Points.
Compass Network	Compass Network is made up of nodes, called Compass Points, and each Compass Point connects a particular device or system to the network.
Compass Objects	When a Compass point needs to share a value with the device that it is connected to or with another Compass point on the network, it does so using *objects*. This document describes Compass Objects in details.
Compass Point Types	There are five different types of Compass Points in available. This document describes Compass Points and Interface Types in details.
Compass Transfer	Compass Points can pass values from a system to others via the Compass Network. This is performed using Transfers within each Compass Point. Transfers normally work as pairs. This document describes Compass Transfer in details.
Obsys	ObSys is a PC-based software package that connects to different control systems, communicates with each, and provides graphical views of information from the control systems for the user. ObSys can also be used to pass information onto the higher building-wide network, and add extra functionality to individual control systems.
Obsys Alarms	Different systems produce different alarms – North Building Technologies Ltd. drivers converts these alarms to a common ‘Alarm Message’ format, and can then deliver the alarm message in a variety of ways.
ZIP	ZIP is a data acquisition system. The individual ZIP Modules connect to sensors and actuators, and provide local control. The ZipMaster adds extra functionality, such as alarm generation or the transfer of values to other systems.

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