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Equipment Monitoring
Your business relies on equipment that costs many thousands of dollars, yet many of the adverse conditions that cause this equipment to fail remain outside the view of your alarm management system. Asentria products have the capability to monitor your communications and control equipment, and notify you when indications of problems arise. Asentria products offer many options for equipment monitoring, including:
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In order to determine which of our products best suits your application, briefly
review the topics below and then use the Product Selection Wizard
to identify the product that is right for you.
| Temperature | Humidity | Intrusion | Water Level | Smoke | Battery |
Serial Alarm Monitoring
Various types
of communication, control, and power equipment commonly issue alarm messages via
serial port. Asentria products allow you to set up user-defined “alarm
formulas” that define what constitutes a serial alarm message, and then send
alarm notification back to your Alarm Management System. (back
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Contact Closure Monitoring
Many legacy and non-network-based devices use contact closures outputs
to indicate alarm and system status. Using Asentria products,
you can monitor contact closures inputs from environmental sensors, cameras,
power systems, electronic equipment, door and window contacts (for intrusion
detection), and many other devices. (back to top)
Battery/Voltage Monitoring
Asentria products allow you to monitor and alarm on analog voltages
from +/- 75vdc or 0-5vdc. A common use is to monitor the voltages
on battery backup systems, however, other devices also output analog voltage
levels such as a radio signal strength output. Asentria products
support both onboard and external analog voltage sensors. (back
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Temperature/Humidity Monitoring
Humidity and temperature
can be easily monitored and alarmed on throughout remote equipment rooms and cabinets
using Asentria products. Both on-board and external sensors are available. We
have proprietary sensors which monitor temperature from 32" to 140", and
humidity from 20% to 80%. We also offer a mechanical temperature sensor which
can mount on a wall and generate a contact closure when the environment exceeds
a preset threshold. (back to top)
Water/Smoke Detection
Using Asentria contact closure inputs,
you can connect external water sensors and industrial smoke detectors to Asentria
products in order to detect water on the floor, or smoke in the air of your remote
equipment rooms. (back to top)
Intrusion Detection
Sometimes the missing
ingredient in your equipment monitoring includes sensing when doors, windows, or
cabinets have been opened. You can monitor when these access points
open or close using simple magnetic sensors connected to the contact closure inputs
on Asentria products. (back to top)
Control Output Relays
Output relays are available
on some Asentria products which are manually controllable or which can be triggered
automatically as an alarm action. Output relays allow you to activate sirens, cameras,
lights or other electronic devices in remote locations, which often saves the time
and expense of sending personnel to a remote site. (back to top)
Custom Scripting for
Alarm Interpretation
Sometimes custom scripting is needed to interrogate
intelligent serial devices or to evaluate multiple sensor inputs in order
to determine if an alarm threshold has been reached. Asentria products
support scripting of custom functionality modules to support special applications
such as these. (back to top)
Create a Faux-MIB for Legacy Devices
Custom scripting
can also be used to write an SNMP proxy front-end for legacy equipment so that the
alarm and status values of legacy equipment can be read and written using standard
SNMP via a faux-MIB within the Asentria product. (back to top)
Alarm Notification Methods
Asentria products
can transmit alarms via various methods, including:
- Modem
- Pager
- SNMP Trap
Alarm messages can go over the network and sometimes over a modem. SNMP
Traps are the most common form of alarm notification when integrating with a Network
Management System. To receive SNMP Traps, customers may utilize their
existing SNMP software, or Asentria AlarmManager software, which is now available
free. Some products do not support modem alarms or email alarms.
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Product Selection Wizard Several Asentria products may suit your needs depending
on the combination of environmental monitoring features and other options your application
requires. Select all the appropriate boxes below so our Product Selection
Wizard can help find the right product for you. (back to top)
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