GPRS Telemetry
The GSM/GPRS technology quickly conquers the professional telemetry applications market and gets the advantage over the radio modem solutions being commonly used up to now. The wide areas of applications include an environment protection, water-sewage systems, agriculture, forestry, power and gas industries, utilities, remote reading of media consumption and object security. The basic benefits of wireless GSM/GPRS systems usage in an remote monitoring and control are low costs, short time of implementation, unlimited distance between the objects, insensibility to lay of the land and natural obstacles (e.g., forests or high buildings), lack of complicated antenna systems and capability to announce the alarm events directly to the mobile phones of responsible persons. The GPRS technology provides direct and secure access to the information using mobile devices (phones, PDAs and computers). Additionally, there is no bottleneck effect in the central station in case of complex telemetry systems. An HDSPA router used in the central station normally provides up to 1.8 Mbit/s throughput, and even up to 10 Mbit/s with the fixed link to the network operator. The event-driven transmission (when the object itself is sending data under defined circumstances) allows fast and simultaneous sending the information about state changes of the arbitrary located objects to the central system, even in the case of very large installations with hundreds of monitoring points.
GPRS Telemetry – BENEFITS
Fast access to the information
- on-line supervision without establishing connection
- possibility of inspection at any time of any object in any distance
- immediate messaging on important changes, events and alarms
- monitoring and control capabilities with mobile devices
- remote object data accessible via Internet
Safety of devices, installations and systems
- quick alarming on threats and failures
- preventing failures before they happen
- remote diagnostics of distant objects
- access security
- supervision of warning lights operation
Cost savings
- decreasing the number of failures, loss reduction and shortening of repair time
- reduction of trips to distant sites
- better security of devices and installations
- more effective diagnostics
- optimising of logistic actions
Growth in Customer satisfaction
- remote diagnostics
- short failure detection and repair time
- preventing failures before they appear
- remote reading of meters
- assuring the continuity of raw materials, consumables or products delivery
Compliance with regulations
- lift monitoring
- gas sensor monitoring (garages, boiler rooms)
- emission, imission and sewage monitoring
- cold stores monitoring
Environment protection
- air and water purity monitoring
- early detection of dangerous leakage or harmful emissions
- failure prevention in sewage pumping stations
- sewage treatment plants monitoring
- ground water and river levels monitoring
- energy consumption reduction