AIN ECAN Forum presentation notes

Phase 2 of the ECAN Water Monitoring Trial was a discussion forum on the trials. Over sixty people attended the day from many organisations including district/regional councils, irrigation companies (MICO, Rainers etc), consultants (IRRICON, URS etc), interested groups (Federated Farmers, DEXCEL, MFE etc), and sections within Environment Canterbury. We gave a 30 minute presentation to the group on datalogging and data collection. The notes from this presentation is now available to be viewed online. Click on the link above to take a look.

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ECAN Water take trial

Advanced Information recently participated in Environment Canterbury’s (ECAN) Water data usage collection forum. This was held on the 5th of May 2005 and follows on from the water usage telemetry trial that has been running over the last 6 months.

The objective of the forum was
‘To present information on the flow meters and data loggers so that we are all informed about the technology currently available to enable irrigators to comply with water and logger requirements in consent conditions’

Advanced Information Networks presented in the final session of the day on Dataloggers, Telemetry and Software Development. We were fortunate to have John Williams from M2M Tech in Auckland there to help us with our presentation. We have worked closely with John over the last 3 years providing monitoring systems to end-users. John was able to share relevant examples to the industry from systems at the Northland Council where he has installed XE8000 SMS Controllers.

The day went very well and I think those who attended it found it useful.

AIN-ECAN Water Take Trial Live Data and Notes

Advanced Information Networks is currently taking part in a Water Take Monitoring Trial by Environment Canterbury.

The XE8000 SMS Controller logs the rate of water take and the volume to ensure compliance with the ECAN Resource Consent. The data is transmitted back to a web-based database and is viewable live on the Advanced Information Networks website.

Advanced Information Networks is pleased to announce that data logging clients can now generate custom graphical views of their logged data.

Advanced Information Networks allows devices to log data to the web from remote and mobile locations via GSM networks. In addition to AIN's XE8000 SMS Controller, other devices are logging data via our Machine to Web Gateway. Clients are able to access this data online from a web browser and can download logged data to view in a spreadsheet or for offline manipulation and reporting. Clients using the web data logging service can now also login to the client area to see graphs of latest data and to generate graphs for specific time periods.

Several other changes have been made to the client area to improve usability and navigation and to incorporate suggestions from some of our clients.

We thank our clients for their feedback and welcome your comments on these new changes and any further suggestions.

The enhanced News section has been released. As well as news related to Advanced Information Networks, this section of the site will highlight news stories on related technologies.

SMS Server Monitoring PC Software

AIN is developing Server Monitoring PC software that provides server and network monitoring with alarm notification via SMS messaging and email. This is currently released for beta testing and is expected for release Q42004.

GSM and SMS Products New Zealand

Next Day Group Ltd (www.nextday.co.nz) have been appointed as an online distributor for the sale of XE8000 SMS Controllers and XE8300 Expansion Units. Their GSM and SMS Products New Zealand Online Store can be accessed at: gsm.next-day.co.nz

XE8300 8 Input Expansion Unit

The XE8300 8 Input Expansion units offers additional inputs to the XE8000 SMS Controller. Inputs may be individually configured as 0-10V, 4-20mA, or Digital. The digital inputs are voltage tolerant, and they may be connected to clean contact type sensors. 256x oversampling of the 10-bit ADCs to give an effective resolution of 14-bits. Two expansion units may be connected to the XE8000 to allow a maximum of 20 inputs.

Users of the XE8000 SMS Controller may now measure the run-time of it's inputs. Time is accumulated to a resolution of 1 minute whenever an input is in an alarm state. Run time metering is available for inputs on the XE8000 and any connected XE8300 expansion units.

PC Software that allows logged data to be downloaded from the internal memory of an SMS Controller was released today. This software is available to owners of SMS Controllers through the Advanced Information Networks Client Area.

Event Logging to Email

A new service has been released to allow Advanced Information Networks powered SMS Controllers to log events to email. Alarm Notification messages can be send to the Machine-To-Web Portal which are then sent on to the System Administrator as an email message.

Testing today proved the XE8000 SMS Controller was compatible with Siemens MC35T and TC35 GSM Modems. A range of GSM modems are compatible with the XE8000 including the ETM9000, Siemens M20 and Wavecom GSM Modems.

Wavecom WMOD2 compatibility and support was added to the Advanced Information Networks XE8000 SMS Controller today. The XE8000 SMS Controller also supports ETM9000 and Siemens M20 GSM Modems.

SMS Controller Demonstration

Advanced Information Networks is pleased to announce the release of our SMS Controller Demonstration, highlighting remote data collection using wireless technology.

Our SMS Controller logs temperature hourly. The SMS Controller sends all unsent readings to the the Web Server by SMS on a daily basis. Current local temperature can be requested by an SMS command from a mobile phone. The current temperature will be sent back to the mobile phone, and any unsent temperature readings will be sent to the Web Server. Recent temperature readings can be viewed online at: www.advancedinformation.net/sms_solutions.html