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Remote Monitoring
It is most often the case that what we need to monitor is remote to where we work. Data Acquisition Networks remote monitoring units bring the data to your desk routinely and reliably. Whether you want to monitor the temperature of a motor, the depth of a dam or the salinity of an estuary, DAN remote monitoring units can do the job for you inexpensively.
DAN monitoring units have been designed to be able to receive input from any industrial probe. Each unit has 6 analogue inputs and 1 counter input and offer battery back-up in case of a power failure. Each unit transmits data to a website where it can be viewed and stored.
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Remote Data Logging
DAN data loggers offer a number of benefits over more conventional data logging systems and more than often do so at a fraction of the cost. DAN data loggers are most applicable wherre:
- There is a need to make routine or regular site visits to a remote location in order to maintain or adjust on site monitoring equipment
- There is a need to gather information from and/or change control parameters in geographically remote locations or in locations which are difficult to access
- There is the need to respond to alarm conditions if a site is unattended
- There is a need to maintain records or log equipment performance due to legislated requirements
- There is a need for production supervisors to monitor processes where the process is continuous
- There is a need by senior management of multi-site organisations to compare performance between sites
- There is a need to gather data from sites where access is restricted
- There is a need to gather data from a vehicle that is constantly on the move
Data logging using a Hosted Managed Service
The need for gathering information from remote sites has been growing steadily. Around the world, the use of outsourced managed services, or in the context of DAN’s development ‘HOSTED MANAGED SERVICES” is clearly on the increase. A recent survey conducted by IDC a large US based survey organisation, showed that the use of hosted managed services in the VOIP market is increasing at 282% per year and by 2008 will be worth US$7.8 Billion in the US market alone.
Unlike those that develop more capable systems by adding to existing technology, DAN has developed a new technology from the ground up while incorporating those elements of existing technology which fit the structure and provide a level of reliability.
The challenge of remote data logging
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.