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Industrial Ethernet systems
News Release from: Digi International | Subject: Digi Connect ME
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 12 October 2005
Remote monitoring via wireless or
internet
Sensonics uses Digi Connect ME Embedded Modules to rapidly develop industrial remote monitoring for predictive maintenance systems
When industrial instrumentation specialist Sensonics wanted to quickly and cost-effectively add remote monitoring to its DN36 Spyder monitor and new Spydernet plug and play monitor, it found that the Digi innovative Connect ME embedded networking modules offered the ideal, off-the-shelf solution Sensonics is a global player in the design, manufacture and supply of monitoring instrumentation and predictive maintenance systems for a wide range of industries
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 11 Dec 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Its DN36 Spyder and Spydernet, with Digi Connect ME modules, can now be used to monitor industrial devices via a local area network or from virtually anywhere via the Internet.
"As soon as I heard about the Digi Connect ME, I realised that it offered us a cost-effective and very compact means of adding TCP/IP connectivity to our monitoring systems," said Nigel Stevens, chief software engineer at Sensonics.
"I was going to request a sample for testing, only to find that our general manager Russell King had already ordered one.
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The Connect ME was quick and easy to integrate into our product design, creating an important value-add to our remote monitoring systems," Stevens continued: "Using the NET+Works 6.0 development tools it took no more than 20 minutes to add an e-mail alert facility.
In addition, our customers can use the web-based configuration and control tools without the need for any specialist or additional software".
The Digi Connect ME offers high-level functionality and a compact package little bigger than a standard RJ45 connector.
It is a simple means of building robust and intelligent Ethernet connectivity into devices with at its heart the 32-bit NetSilicon NS7520 microprocessor.
Sensonics used the NetSilicon NET+Works 6.0 development platform to ensure rapid integration of the Connect ME and achieve a fast route to market for the new products.
Designed for monitoring a wide range of rotating machinery, including turbines, motors, pumps and fans, the Sensonics DN36 Series offers dual channel monitoring, providing "mix and match" measurement options such as vibration, displacement, temperature, speed and eccentricity.
It offers two alarm levels per channel to drive common relays for the safe tripping of plant.
The new plug-in and play Spydernet product provides a cost-effective solution for remote monitoring of vibration or process channels and is capable of monitoring eight standard ICP or current mode accelerometers as well as 4-20mA process inputs.
Sensonics is also looking at using the newly-developed Digi Connect Wi-ME embedded module to add wireless connectivity to the DN36 Series and Spydernet.
Fully pin compatible and interchangeable with the wired Connect ME module, the Connect Wi-ME offers fully customisable and secure 32-bit 802.11b wireless functionality without the need for any further development.
It will enable Sensonics products to provide remote monitoring of machines without the need for a potentially expensive wired local area network.
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