The FZ300 alarm autodialer unit picks up available alarm and status signals from industrial equipment control panels. If an alarm or status change occurs the wireless monitoring unit transmits the signal to the monitoring website where the condition is recorded and then distributed to as many email addresses, cell phones via text message, or pagers as you like.
Ideal for monitoring many types of industrial equipment and processes, the FleetZOOM monitoring solution provides alarm autodialer remote monitoring to make sure your equipment is in top form at all times. Remote monitoring ensures critical equipment is ready while extending life and reducing maintenance costs.
When the status of your equipment changes, notifications and alarms are instantly sent via SMS to cell phones, pagers, PDA's and by e-mail. The included monitoring web site service provides configuration tools, live status, event and alarm history, maintenance and service logs, as well as mapping to show the location and status of all of your equipment sites on one easy to use web site!
Provides live information from the autodialer about the monitored equipment. Displays all monitored signal statuses, alarm autodialer DC battery voltage, wireless signal strength, ambient temperature are displayed.
Live data visualization from the autodialer enables equipment owners and operators to spot trends before they become problems and confirm equipment health and performance. Calendars to the left of the graph enable an easy to use date selection tool to narrow or expand the range of displayed data.
The autodialer provides both summary and detailed statistical reporting for every event type and compiles total equipment run time and all other signals monitored at the equipment over any selected date range. Report data can be exported with a single click using the icons above the report into a variety of formats: spreadsheet, text, csv, xml, html. Additionally reports can be printed directly from the website with the single click of the print icon.
The examples above are just a few equipment monitoring system web portal features. Please contact a product specialist using the button below to learn about all of the equipment monitoring system features the solution provides.
A wireless alarm auto dialer like the FleetZOOM FZ300 keep owners and personnel responsible for industrial machinery and equipment constantly up to date with equipment status and alarm reports from their entire fleet. By integrating the alarm autodialer into the into the piece of monitored equipment, the unit is able to transmit data about the equipment to a monitoring website and then dispatch update notifications through email, SMS, pager or any other communication medium appropriate for the application. Wireless alarm auto dialer systems have a variety of I/O (input/output) to accommodate different electrical interfaces or sensors on the equipment to be monitored. These include digital inputs which monitor any signal that is either on or off such as dry contacts (relays), TTL or other digital (on/off) voltage thresholds, and sometimes direct physical interface to remote annunciators, such as those commonly used on standby generators. An industrial alarm auto dialer can also measure analog signals, typically voltages or currents, and trigger alarm notifications if the monitored signals fall outside of a configured normal range. Finally, digital outputs in the form of output control relays are available on some models of wireless autodialers. These outputs enable the industrial auto dialer to remotely control the piece of equipment it monitors. This remote control can be used to remotely start a genset, to turn a pump on or off, or just about anything else where a benefit is realized from auto dialer monitoring.
While digital inputs only detect two signal states, these two states can have different meanings depending on the application. Common digital input states include on or off, high or low, alarming or normal, and running or stopped. The meanings of these signals are arbitrary. It's the electrical signal level that is important to the RTU (remote telemetry unit) in its determination of status for the monitored digital signal. An auto dialer alarm is triggered from a status change on the digital inputs is detected. Even thought a digital input used for remote monitoring can detect only two states (on or off or sometimes high or low- referring to the voltage level of the signal), additional useful information can be derived from these signals over time. On a security system a digital input can monitor a door switch, triggering an autodialer alarm whenever the door is opened unexpectedly. For a security application such systems can be used as an emergency auto dialer to notify interested personnel of any condition deemed important by the facility managers. On a pump station a digital input is used to monitor when the pump is running or off. With statistical features, an advanced industrial autodialer calculates the total pump on time, the number of times the pump turned on and off. Also, the duty cycles of the pump motors can all be tracked over timeframes such as the past day, week, month, year. Additionally the reporting features of a FleetZOOM wireless autodialer enables the user to export this data or run the statistics over a specific date range of interest, such as a reporting period mandated by a regulating body or a range used for service billing or auditing.
Analog inputs on the FleetZOOM FZ300 interpret electrical signals from sensors or transducers that provide a voltage or current which varies proportionately to the quantity of what the sensor is measuring. A good example is a fuel level sensor for a fuel tank. On a standby generator, a fuel level sensor is used to output an analog signal continuously sampled by the alarm auto dialer. This analog signal tells the autodialer the fuel tank level and enables it to keep track of fuel burn rate. It can even estimate how many engine run hours are left before the generator runs out of fuel. In this case the genset fuel level acts like a generator hour meter in reverse, counting down how long the generator can run before it will need fuel. Since auto dialer systems notify interested personnel whenever an important status change occurs, many auto dialer system features can be combined to provide a form of closed loop feedback. As the generator runs and depletes the tank, once it reaches a certain fuel level, a fuel service can be notified that automatically dispatches a crew to refill the tank for the generator needing additional fuel. If the fuel level reaches a critically low level, a supervisor can be notified so an alternative fuel service can be called to refuel. The whole time while the genset is running, data acquisition of the fuel burn rates is stored by the system for reporting and later analysis of efficiency providing autodialer scada features. This fuel efficiency data can be exported into a variety of formats enabling equipment owners to evaluate the performance of their equipment and spot trends before they become major problems.
Digital outputs on the FZ300 provide a means to remotely control industrial equipment. These digital outputs are typically dry contacts or relays that can switch an electrical load on or off remotely. While most of the time the remote control features are used infrequently, there is no technical limitation to the number of times they can be used per day. A common use for an industrial alarm autodialer digital output is remote control of a landfill flare. In a landfill gas system the landfill flare used to burn Methane gas may need to be shutdown or restarted due to severe weather, or if a landfill gas to energy plant at the facility is coming online or going offline. Landfill operators are increasingly interested in their greenhouse gas emissions as they explore incentives for alternative energy programs. They may use data from flare shutdown reports in combination with other collected monitoring data to calculate carbon offsets, and finally the aggregation of data across all of their sites to validate carbon credits and total carbon footprint.
Industrial equipment owners and operators depend on continuous remote monitoring of their equipment to provide the best possible service at the lowest cost. Advanced wireless alarm autodialers like the FleetZOOM FZ300 provide key features to improve the efficiency of almost any industrial service depending on equipment. Now, thanks to improvements in wireless technology, an easy to install and low cost wireless monitoring system can be used to meet their needs.
Key features of the alarm auto dialers are totally wireless operation, no phone lines are needed as is the case with conventional telephone autodialers. Auto dialer cellular models use the existing cell phone networks to send and receive data. A web based monitoring interface is provided with the FleetZOOM FZ300 and is capable of many reporting metrics of interest to equipment managers, but is also easy to use and install thanks to its design. An internal battery backup on the RTU (remote telemetry unit) enables operation during power outages while an onboard temperature sensor enables the system to double as a temperature alarm auto dialer which notifies interested personnel about environmental conditions in addition to power loss at the site monitored. The system provides daily updates by email or text. It gives immediate notification of any alarms or events. Users can access the remote monitoring system from anywhere, be it a home, the office or any place with internet access. The web-based configuration features provide flexible options for the sensor and transducer setup, while the online reports and history files make exporting data for all the events and alarms a snap.
As a manager of industrial services that rely on equipment, consider the benefits of a wireless alarm autodialer. FleetZOOM provides a complete alarm autodialer, remote monitoring solution.
The FZ300 is a compact cellular transceiver for monitoring industrial equipment that sends live data to the equipment
monitoring web portal, providing real-time status and alarms.
The FZ300 features 14 digital inputs that interface with dry contacts (relays) on the equipment control. In addition to alarming on status changes, the system keeps track of equipment run time and all events.
No software to buy, install or maintain; all mapping and data features are accessible over the FleetZOOM monitoring web site from any computer with Internet access.
Proactive service reminders are automatically generated and sent as equipment reaches service intervals based on run-time. Service logs and manuals available over the monitoring web site reduce paperwork and automate record keeping while providing up to the minute service records for all of your monitored equipment.
