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Control Solutions’ i.Report provides IP based remote monitoring via the cellular network for wide area wireless coverage. The i.Report initiates periodic data point logging and event based reporting similar to i.CanDoIt®.
i.Report functions as a web client, logging into a specially configured server. The i.Report uses HTTP Get requests to provide data to the server. The page returned by the server contains configuration information for i.Report.
Web browser access to data from i.Report is provided by the central server rather than the device itself. This approach makes the most efficient use of air time.
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LogMyData Web Portal Features
• Optimized for remote alarm monitoring and notification
• User configurable alarms and notification messages
• Multiple users and multiple user groups for notifications
• Notification via email, SMS text message, Voice phone calls
• Voice calls use advanced text to speech technology to read your alert to you
• Alert escalation when alert requires acknowledgement (user configurable)
• Map and annunicator views of system summary
• Daily status reports and online history log
• Notification of unresponsive devices (lost connection)
• Data collection for trending, CSV data file export, online graph plotting
• Connect via wired Internet, cellular GSM/GPRS, satellite (coming soon)
LogMyData.Com ... the server side of Remote Monitoring
The goal of LogMyData® is to close the loop and put your m2m devices in touch with your enterprise - regardless of the size of your enterprise. Our vision is that signing up for a remote monitoring account should be no more difficult than signing up for an eBay® account. We think remote monitoring should be accessible and affordable even if you have just one site to monitor.
There are typically two questions that remote monitoring seeks to ask: (1) Is anything wrong? (2) Is something about to go wrong?
Event based remote monitoring will constantly look at data points that provide answers to those questions, and notify you via email or cell phone when you need to know.
The other application for remote monitoring is long term trending or performance monitoring. Nothing is really wrong one way or the other, but you want to see some history. Trend monitoring will periodically record data points and archive them in a database. You access that database at your convenience via a dedicated web site.
Control Solutions' LogMyData.Com has invested in the development of its own web portal for global use in a variety of applications. LogMyData also works with third parties who are developing their own specialized portal. If we see that your application falls into one of those specialized areas, we will refer you to them. Most general applications are served well by our own web portal.
LogMyData.Com is willing to provide monitoring services for just a few devices or thousands of devices. We provision our servers in top data centers around the country. Our servers are well connected, well protected, and backed up indefinitely.
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Introducing LogMyData®
What is LogMyData.Com?
LogMyData.Com is a Device ISP resource created to support the Internet connectivity of “things”. The majority of the ISP’s currently in existence are geared for people surfing sites like eBay and Google. Machine to machine communication for remote monitoring is typically limited to private intranets and specialized applications. The goal of LogMyData.Com is to bring broader access to the Internet connectivity of "things".
The mission of LogMyData.Com is to bring together Device ISP resources that provide connectivity allowing users with basic web browser skills to monitor remote equipment. When we say equipment, we mean sensors and actuators, pumps and motors, current loops and dry contacts. We do not mean monitor your web server or CPU usage like so many of the “remote monitoring services”. We monitor things put together with nuts and bolts, things that make noise, and things with horsepower.
LogMyData will send you emails, or text messages to your cell phone, when an event you want to know about has occurred. LogMyData can even automatically call you with a voice message to tell you what has occurred.
Who is LogMyData.Com?
LogMyData.Com is a division of Control Solutions, Inc., Minnesota USA, created to support the Device ISP requirements for monitoring “things” via the Internet. Control Solutions manufactures a line of Internet enabled embedded monitoring and control products. Much of the time, these products are used in private intranets. This means our customer has built their own specialized server. We asked ourselves, "How does one go about remote monitoring when you don't have an IT department with the resources to build a custom server?"
Our vision is that signing up for a remote monitoring ISP account should be no more difficult than signing up for an eBay account. LogMyData.Com is working with various resources to realize this vision.
How These Devices Are Used
The remote monitoring devices are intended for wide area deployment. The server receives periodic data log updates and event driven alarm notifications from the devices. The server will in turn issue notifications to the notification list via email and/or SMS text message. You log into your account on the web portal to view a status summary of all your devices, or to look at details about any one remote site. You also make changes to monitoring criteria via the web portal.
Control Solutions’ i.Report is designed to perform data logging and alarm reporting with all data traffic initiated by the wireless device. The i.Report uses HTTP Get requests to a specially configured server to report data. This approach maximizes efficiency of wireless air time. It also provides the highest level of security since i.Report will not accept any incoming Internet traffic. Only replies to initiated traffic are recognized.
What's unique about LogMyData.com?
Extereme Flexibility!
If you have a sensor that generates an industry standard output, LogMyData can monitor it. Do you need to apply a special algorithm to derive useful data from your sensor? Our monitoring devices are programmable. Write a Basic program using the Script Basic built into some devices, or graphical programming for the PLC capability in others. Does your device talk Modbus or LonWorks or BACnet? LogMyData can monitor it! Does your device talk some funky proprietary ASCII protocol over RS-232? LogMyData can monitor that, too, with a little help from a script written in Script Basic. Although the LogMyData web portal is geared toward mostly receiving data from remote sites, it can push data back out, too. Via the web portal, you can change setpoints, do a remote start on a generator, clear counters, or even upload a new Basic program.
LogMyData monitors any of these:
• Sensors that generate 4-20mA or 0-10VDC signals
• Switches, relays, dry contacts
• Three phase power up to 480VAC and 6,000 amps using WattNode Modbus
• Modbus RTU or Modbus TCP devices (LogMyData device can be master or slave)
• LonWorks devices
• BACnet MS/TP or BACnet IP devices
• Any RS-232 ASCII serial device at standard baud rates
LogMyData devices are programmable (varies by model)
• Script Basic for writing generic Basic programs
• Graphical programming for PLC capabilities
LogMyData offers flexible notifications
• SMS text messages
• Standard email
• Voice call notification
• Alert escalation and acknowledgement configurable by user
LogMyData offers flexible data retrieval
• Online data graphs
• Export CSV files ready for spread sheet processing
• Query from your server, get XML formatted data
LogMyData notification rules are flexible
• Template based rule configuration
• Notifications sent immediately upon alert
• Notification generated by web portal if monitoring device stops reporting
• Notification generated when preventive maintenance due
LogMyData includes service records
• Preventive maintenance tracked automatically, based on run time
• Arbitrary service records may be entered by users
• Every alert notification may have user notes attached to response
LogMyData includes flexible controls pushing data back to remote devices
• Change setpoints or send data to any register in the monitoring device
• Do a remote start on a generator
• Reset counters
• Upload a new Basic program
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