Archive for May 2008
Data loggers with revolutionary features
People have been recording data almost since time began. Over the centuries the methods of monitoring and recording data have changed significantly. Automation, security and the ability to access data from anywhere have become sort after features.
Data Acquisition Networks provides a range of data loggers that probe inputs 19 times every second and then transmit that data every hour or as often as is required and then present the data to those authorised by them simply logging onto the website through any web-enabled PC It’s as easy as that!
Your data can never be accessed by anyone you don’t want to have it, it is collected routinely without you having to rely upon others to collect or retrieve it and it is sent routinely and presented to you whenever you need to get it. REVOLUTIONARY data logging!
The Power of Data
Using a data logger from Data Acquisition Networks enables you to use data to better manage your way through to successful business outcomes.
DAN data loggers offer the facility for derived data which means you are able to use any two or more probed inputs to derive or calculate an outcome. The best part is the DAN website derives the outcome for you so when you log on all the data you want is there for you to see.
Data loggers can save your business
When you take the time to put a data logger in place that you have purchased from Data Acquisition Networks you are taking an action that could ultimately save your business.
Data loggers from DAN have alarm functions that tell you when things go wrong and can give sufficient warning for you to be able to take corrective action. In the event of a customer or regulatory authority having a problem with your product, data loggers supplied by Data Acquisition Networks also provide evidence of due diligence. DAN data loggers are very unique in regard to data storage and security. Data from a DAN data logger is sent to a website where it is stored in a data vault where it cannot be altered. DAN stores the data for 90 days or you can make arrangements for the data to be sent directly to you for your own storage. Alternatively, by logging onto the DAN website via your password access you are able to ‘cut and paste’ the data into Microsoft Excel and store it yourself.
Data Acquisition Networks data loggers have many unique and valued features that can help save your business.
Data loggers that offer data security
Many data loggers either provide a chart recorder that anyone can look at or provide a facility to download data to a connected PC. These loggers offer little if any security of your data.
DAN data loggers store data on a website where it can be viewed only through authorised password access. The administrator of the system can issue new passwords or revoke and discontinued passwords as often as he/she likes.
Some passwords can have restricted access and privileges. Some users may only be issued with a password that enables them to see a portion of the data whereas others may have full access.
DAN data loggers offer the most exacting and practical data security you will find in any data logger and yet at the same time, DAN data loggers make accessing your data as easy as switching on any Internet enabled PC.
What sort of alarm do you want from a data logger?
Data loggers that recognise alarms are invaluable in the conduct of almost any business.
Data loggers supplied by Data Acquisition Networks have an in-built alarm function. Through the ‘log on’ facility on the website DAN customers are able to input there alarm and ‘reset’ conditions. Irrespective of where a DAN data logger is in its reporting cycle, the moment an alarm condition is identified a message is sent via email and SMS to ‘key’ people.
DAN data logging systems allow up to five mobile numbers for SMS and 5 email addresses. These numbers can be easily clicked in and out by the system administrator and when an alarm message is sent, the system automatically records it was sent and received.
DAN data loggers are continually taking data monitoring thinking to new levels.
New age data loggers provide ‘derived data’ instantly
Historically, data loggers have required someone to retrieve data, massage it into a usable form and then undertake tedious calculations to get the information that is required. No More!
Data loggers provided by Data Acquisition Networks all have the capability to instantly provide data in the form it is required by ’deriving’ or ‘correlating’ raw data from two or more monitored inputs and present the derived or correlated data instantly.
Why? Well the explanation is simple. Because Data Acquisition Networks supplies data loggers that transmit data to a website, the power of the website enables the data to be used immediately it is received. When a user logs on they can instantly to see the raw data and the calculated data in a form that is usable. There are an increasing number of applications where this facility is valued.
Contact Data Acquisition Networks today if you would like to understand how you can get a far higher level of performance from your data logging equipment. Data loggers supplied by DAN are amazingly inexpensive and highly cost effective in comparison to more traditional data logging products.
Data loggers with password access provide multi-user visibility
Data collected from a site is used in a variety of ways. Often, when a data logger captures data it is purely captured to be a record that is reviewed infrequently or when things go wrong. Alarms can be sent from data loggers and often, the absence of an alarm is a simple reassurance your ‘system is working properly’ and that is all that is required.
For other installations however, there is often more intense and more routine scrutiny of the data and sometimes, by a variety of people. People are realising the benefits of understanding data and making decisions based upon information. It seems that with an increasing frequency, data logging customers seek data transparency. Data loggers supplied by Data Acquisition Networks offer that benefit. Conventional data loggers typically require someone to visit a site, download data and then distribute the data to those that need to be informed. All too often the data is ‘old’ by the time it is received. With DAN product data is sent routinely from the data logger to the website. Passwords that can provide varying levels of access are allocated and everyone with a password can log on, see the data and be aware of the up-to-date data.
This facility is just one of the many that set the data logging equipment provided by Data Acquisition Networks apart from more conventional monitoring equipment.
Contact Data Acquisition Networks today if you would like to understand how you can achieve more dynamic use of you collected data.
Data loggers provide graphic display of data
Data Acquisition Networks has recently launched as an enhancement to its data logger website with the introduction of a management console that enables customers to view data retrieved from the field in various graphical forms. The facility allows the user to set up views and include information that is relevant to their particular needs.
A user on the DAN system simply needs to ‘click-on’ web console and the images instantly materialise. To update data the user simply needs to hit the ‘refresh’ button.
If you would like to speak to a DAN representative and see a presentation of the web console simply contact sales@danmonitoring.com or telephone 1300 973 180.
Data loggers deliver field data to your desk when you need it
Data Acquisition Networks (DAN) provide data loggers that deliver data to your desk from the field as often as you want to receive it. To retrieve the data all you need to do is log on to the website through your password and the data is there for you to review.
The data logging systems provided by DAN all have an in-built facility to allocate passwords at different levels of authority. The selected administrator of the system can change alarm conditions whilst other users may only be able to view the data or sections of it.
When alarm conditions are changed the DAN system logs that change. Who made it, the time it was made and what the change was! With DAN data logging systems you need never fear parameters can change without your knowledge and you can always be certain that from the comfort of your desk (or anywhere else for that matter) you can log on to the website and instantly be assured that your system is working properly. One DAN customer boasted that from the comfort of his hotel room on the Champs Ellysee he could log on and see the temperature of his chicken shed in country Victoria and know instantly if everything was OK on his commercial poultry farm. (Footnote – some people just need to take a holiday & rest!)
Data Acquisition Networks are making data monitoring easy!
Data loggers move into new monitoring markets
Conventional thinking about data loggers has meant they are generally specific-use. That is, a customer buys a data logger to do a specific job and that is the only application that data logger can be applied to.
Data loggers designed by Data Acquisition Networks can take almost any input from almost any industrial probe. DAN data loggers can take up to 6 inputs plus a ‘counter’ so a variety of probes can be used with a single DAN data logger.