Monitoring System Example
Remote Environmental Monitoring System for Critical Facilities
Continuous monitoring and escalating alarms for unattended, mission-critical sites.
Sciotex built an environmental monitoring and disaster prevention system for mission-critical facilities such as cellular and internet switching stations. It measures and logs temperature, humidity, airborne particulates and vibration, and when any reading leaves its configured range, a redundant auto-dialer works through a call list until someone acknowledges the alarm.
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Example Overview
Environmental Monitoring for Mission-Critical Sites
What is a remote environmental monitoring system?
A remote environmental monitoring system measures conditions such as temperature, humidity, airborne particulates and vibration at sites where people are rarely present. It logs them continuously and alerts staff when a reading leaves its safe range. At an unattended critical facility, it is the first warning of a cooling failure, contamination or physical disturbance.
For switching stations, an undetected problem can take down service for thousands of users. This system was built so that an out-of-range reading always reaches a person: limits are set by an administrator, alarms escalate through a configurable call list, and the system recovers from its own faults.
At a glance
- Measured
- Temperature, humidity, air particulate count and vibration
- Sites
- Mission-critical facilities such as cellular and internet switching stations
- Alarms
- Text and voice notification through a redundant auto-dialer
- Reliability
- Watchdog timer, automatic reboot, data archived to a second PC
- Remote access
- Remote control and remote reboot
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How It Works
How the Monitoring and Alarm System Works
The system runs a continuous loop of measurement, comparison and escalation, designed so no alarm goes unanswered.
Sensors sample temperature, humidity, particulates and vibration.
Data is recorded and archived to a second PC.
Each signal is checked against administrator-set limits.
A redundant auto-dialer works down the call list by text and voice.
Staff acknowledge and review past events and live data.
What the System Does
Software Built for Unattended Sites
Critical sites cannot depend on someone being there. Every feature serves one goal: problems reach a person, and the system keeps running.
Configurable sensors
Sensors can be added, removed and configured as a site changes.
Escalating notification
Text and voice alarms continue down the list until acknowledged.
Self-recovery
A watchdog timer reboots the system automatically after a failure.
Remote control
Staff can view data, control the system and reboot it remotely.
Hardware and Software
System Capabilities
The system combines measurement, logging, alarm logic and remote access. See the data acquisition guide for how monitoring systems like this are designed.
| Sensors | Temperature, humidity, particulate count and vibration; configurable as needed |
|---|---|
| Alarm logic | Administrator-configured acceptable ranges |
| Notification | Text and voice through a redundant auto-dialer and configurable call list |
| Data viewer | Past events, past data and current data |
| Security | Multi-level password access |
| Reliability | Watchdog timer, automatic reboot, archiving to a second PC via modem |
Designed to stay up
An alarm system is only useful if it is running when trouble starts. This one was built to recover on its own:
- Watchdog timer with automatic reboot on failure
- Redundant auto-dialer that escalates until acknowledged
- Remote reboot and control from another location
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