Remote - Fall 2016 - 22

SCADA - Products & Services SignalFire Telemetry Introduces Wireless Tank Level & Temperature Monitoring Float Stick System SignalFire Wireless Telemetry has introduced the Sentinel Float Stick System that serves as a wireless communication link in the remote monitoring and control of tank levels and temperatures for offsite data processing. Consisting of a magnetostrictive level probe with integrated temperature sensors and mated with a SignalFire Sentinel wireless node, the Sentinel Float Stick System creates a wireless connection between a sensor and Gateway where sensor data along with nodediagnostic information is available via a Modbus RTU or TCP interface. Reported values include product level, interface level, temperature, and status. Powered by internal lithium batteries or optional C1D1 rated solar package, the system has a ½ mile range. With a rugged design for demanding outdoor environments and operating temperatures of -40ºC to 60ºC, the Sentinel Float Stick System is designed for Class 1 Division 1 intrinsically safe operation and proven as a viable wireless tank level monitoring solution in oil fields. In addition to monitoring tank levels, the Float Stick System integrates a temperature sensor to measure fluid temperature. Automatically configurable to a star or mesh network the Sentinel Float Stick System is available with single or dual floats for level and interface measurements. For installation convenience, configurations include a flexible or rigid magnetostrictive level probe. Advantech Launches RS-485 Wireless I/O Module with Cloud Connectivity and IoT Protocol Advantech's IIoT Automation Group has launched its complete series of 2.4G WISE-4000 IoT Wireless I/O modules, which will revolutionize the way data is gathered from remote or difficult to wire locations. With the WISE-4051, Advantech provides a complete wireless I/O solution that includes RS-485 port, analog, and digital signal models. This combines the three core functions of data acquisition, processing, and publishing into a single I/O module to meet the needs of a wide range of industries such as environmental monitoring, machine monitoring, and smart cities. The WISE-4051 is a wireless Ethernet I/O module which can be used without the need of a gateway to provide information. With integrated digital input and RS-485 in the same module, the WISE-4051 provides a flexible combination of I/O to acquire digital signal and data from Modbus/ RTU slave devices. The RS-485 port can also support data log functions from Modbus/RTU slave devices with time stamp, preventing data loss compared to traditional transparent Ethernet COM ports (virtual COM of serial device server). It makes data more reliable during communication providing high efficiency data acquisition for smart factories and smart city big data acquisition solutions. Compared to traditional transparent Ethernet COM ports, data should be polled from the master controller whereas the WISE-4051 can automatically push data to the cloud. The WISE data logger can send time stamped information to a Dropbox account, or a private cloud depending on the configuration, and it can also buffer the devices data so that in the event of network failure, no data is lost before it is sent to the administrator. The new private server function allows the all the WISE modules to push data to specific web server by the RESTful web service and MQTT protocol with WebAccess. The helps reduce the effort of acquiring big data. B-Scada Announces New Product Line B-Scada is releasing two lines of wireless sensors - one for residential and commercial deployments and another line of heavy duty wireless sensors for industrial and smart city deployments. What's so exciting about the new sensor lines? The light duty (S-series) sensors not only boast a significantly longer signal range than comparable wireless sensors, but they are also designed to be both affordable and easy-to-use. They are pre-configured for plug-and-play installation, bypassing the configuration difficulties associated with similar light duty sensors. B-Scada's heavy duty (V-series) sensors will also be announced, scheduled for full release this Fall. The V-series sensors are enclosed in a NEMA rated casing to allow them to operate efficiently in all weather conditions and difficult environments. They leverage the LoRaWAN communication protocol to communicate wirelessly over extraordinarily long distances, and boast a modular design that allows up to four 0 to 20 mA sensing probes to be connected simultaneously, allowing them to monitor virtually anything, including: pressure, temperature, humidity, flow rates, velocity, vibration, CO2 levels, pH - any number of analog measurements that are output at 0 to 20 mA. 22 www.RemoteMagazine.com http://www.RemoteMagazine.com

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