Be able to automatically text or page maintenance personnel immediately.
The TCS Alarm Monitoring System is used to monitor critical points in industry and generate appropriate messages to pagers, cell phones, SCADA/HMI, PLCs, or IT systems for fast and timely response to faults.
The Alarm Monitoring Controller (“the controller”) is web enabled and provides a simple user interface for configuration purposes. The controller’s own internal database provides a date and time stamped “flight record” of alarm messages and their acknowledgment response times via a web browser for fault diagnostic purposes.
The alarm monitoring controller’s communications ports (Ethernet TCP/UDP/IP, CAN, wireless 2.4GHz, RS232 or RS-422/485) give multiple combinations to provide access to either existing or new alarm monitoring points. The same communications ports are used to transmit alarm information to the desired monitoring point. 
Alarm data can be obtained directly from the plant’s PLC data tables. Then with set points and event state changes, annunciates can be activated or text messages sent automatically to cell phones or pagers. Remote input modules can be connected to the alarm monitoring controller to link analogue and digital sensors.
Wireless or RS-422/485 communications can be used to obtain alarm monitoring points from devices that require proprietary communications protocols by developing the communications protocols required directly into the alarm monitoring controller.
A web browser can directly serve up web pages to configure the system, display diagnostics showing the status of each of the alarms and verifying that the system is operational, monitor input points and view the data that has been collected in the “flight record” SQL database. Availability can be by Internet, Intranet or Extranet.
When the alarm monitoring controller is connected to the site automation network it can provide data directly to a PLC data table, SCADA / HMI, or IS database using OPC, DLL or ODBC technology.
When sending alarm messages to a cell phone, an acknowledgement response time may be set, requiring the receiver to acknowledge the fault by sending the message number back. The flight recorder updates the database with the time that the acknowledgment message was received for that specific alarm condition. If the acknowledgement is not sent within the predefined time then a backup number is automatically dialled. This will repeat until the acknowledgement is received or the fault is cleared.
To know more about the TCS Alarm Monitoring System or any other TCS product or service please contact us at TCS. We are happy to help.
