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Cost-effective remote monitoring
Published: July 2005
‘Intelligent maintenance’ software which facilitates remote Internet monitoring and control of equipment and assets has been developed by t-mac Technologies. The company says that users can have a t-mac system fully installed and running in a matter of minutes for under £700. The t-mac system can help facilities managers reduce costs in three key areas: protecting materials and equipment; reducing labour costs and lowering infrastructure expenses. There is no longer any need to visit a site to monitor critical conditions first-hand or hire employees to manually monitor systems from a central location. Through constant monitoring, t-mac can offer damage limitation, reducing equipment maintenance costs by identifying and diverting potential hazards at a very early stage. Data is transmitted by general packet radio service, Ethernet or telephone line over the Internet and at regular intervals to a central server. Warnings are made if conditions fluctuate outside predefined limits. It can report on conditions such as indoor and outdoor temperatures, operation of heating and air-conditioning systems, boiler efficiency, humidity, pressure, flow rates, HVAC&R controllers, power failures, lighting levels and many more. Information collected by the t-mac system is stored in a central database and accessed through a secure web page. Users do not have to log in to every individual unit to view its collected information. Each t-mac talks to the secure server and consolidates information to a single point of reference. The system is listed on the Carbon Trust’s Technology List. File:
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