The DAN Website communicates directly with the Data Control Centre located in the field. The DAN website hosts all necessary software enabling end users to set up and maintain their measurement or control application, specify alarm conditions, SMS and email addresses for alarm notification and to view measured data. Communication between the DCC and the website occurs via commercial networks including CDMA, Satellite or landline whichever is most appropriate for the particular situation. Within this innovative monitoring system, DAN has incorporated significant novel concepts and technological advancements over existing competitive products. The incorporation of these items has required significant research and testing prior to their release.

The DCC may be located at a remote site where parameters are measured and/or a simple process is controlled. DAN units can accept almost any probed input and where necessary the website can derive measures from various inputs. The DCC has both analogue and digital inputs that support most sensors and probes and 3 digital outputs for performing on/off control operations. The DCC also has the ability to recognise and alert the web site should pre-set alarm conditions be met. Communications with the web site would be via the GPRS network.

DAN has developed and taken to market, a flexible remote monitoring system that provides the ability to gather data from any site including difficult to reach or geographically remote sites and make that data available conveniently on a central and secure web site on a ‘real time’ basis.  Site reporting criteria and alarm notification can be altered and current information accessed from anywhere in the world where access to the internet is available.  In addition, the system may be extended to incorporate local control, with control variables also being altered over the internet via the web site.

New generation data loggers like those provided by Data Acquisition Networks do not require you to go to the data logger to retrieve your data.

 DAN data loggers routinely send data from the field to your PC over the mobile phone or satellite networks so all you have to do is ‘log on’ and your data is available for you to review.

Data retrieval has never been easier!

When you buy a product you need to know there is a strong support team behind it with problem-solving and ’support’ capabilities.Data Acquisition Networks has very strong technical leadership that is able to custom design solutions for almost any industry. Heading up this team is Bruce Davis and Ian Schmahmann. Bruce has a strong industrial marketing background.  He has worked in senior management roles requiring “hands on” expertise in construction, project management, manufacturing, warehousing, logistics, technical development and sales marketing.  Bruce is a Degree qualified electrical engineer BSc Eng (EE), and a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (MAICD).  Recent senior management appointments have seen Bruce involved in implementing change in technically sophisticated and financially difficult environments. Ian Schmahmann graduated from Natal University in South Africa in 1976 with a B-Sc Electrical Engineering (Light Current). Since 1978, Ian has been professionally involved in the design and implementation of industrial measurement and control products and systems.  He has had the full range of experience in this field from hands-on bread-boarding and developing circuits through to leading teams of hardware and software design engineers as well as marketing products nationally and internationally. The DAN team can design your solution and provide the back-up support necessary to give you the confidence you need that your data logger will always deliver the data you need when you need it. 

Data acquisition over the centuries has taken many forms. Today you can still see people collecting data for personal and commercial use with pencil and paper in hand as you will see people travelling routinely to a remote location to retrieve collected data that needs to be processed in some form in order for it to be suitable for its intended use.

The challenge with collecting data has always been that the things we need to monitor are not always where we live. Quite often they are remote to where we live. Some of the things we need to monitor are at our place of work and we are not there 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Collecting and retrieving data from remote locations wherever we happen to be in the world at a time when the data is urgently needed has always posed a challenge and for many years was simply not possible.

Data Acquisition Networks Pty Ltd (DAN) and the products it supplies were born out of an acute understanding of people’s needs for real-time, accurate information that is delivered to wherever they may happen to be. Monitoring units supplied by DAN have many existing and potential applications. DAN units collect data and transmit it routinely to a secure website where it can be accessed by customers from anywhere in the world at any time of the day or night. Instantaneous data can also be delivered to a mobile phone within seconds of an enquiry being made. Alarms are sent by DAN units when ‘things go wrong’ and DAN units are also able to take limited corrective local action where that is appropriate.

Data Acquisition Networks has developed wireless transmitters and receivers for local data transfer.  Not just hardware, but intelligent combinations able to produce various outputs including via a RS232 port in a human readable format.  For probes that are located at distance from the gathering point or are located where wiring is too difficult, the DAN wireless system may provide the ideal answer.  Designed to link with the DAN data logging product, with an on site system or with both simultaneously, DAN wireless technology has advanced the transmission of data from where it is gathered to where it is needed to new heights.  And as is typical with DAN products, simplicity of operation is the key.

As the world moves forward into 2010, carbon emissions will have a significant impact on every company’s financial performance.  There is no doubt that monitoring and controlling the amount of carbon produced will become an important function.  It will be imperative that organisations from the largest to the smallest measure, calculate and record emissions.  Using DAN technology, the recording of inputs can be automatic, gathered from any point (even from moving vehicles) the data is sent to a web site where it is secure and available for viewing via the internet from any location.  In addition, inputs can be inserted into formulas providing final meaningful data as the raw inputs are received.

Conventional thinking about data loggers was to place a logger at a site and let it record the data. This was revolutionary for its time but not so now!

Data Acquisition Networks supplies a range of data loggers that capture data on a site and then transmit that data over the GPRS or satellite networks to a website where it can be instantly viewed by those with password access. This means data no longer needs to be retrieved from a site and it means data cannot be tampered with by those that might have reason to do so. It also means multiple people can view the data instantly from the comfort of their work desk.

Talk to Data Acquisition Networks today about how new-generation data loggers can add value to data monitoring.