Features in detail:
Network
In principle one can switch through to any connected unit
when in network mode. One then has access to the entire enquiry,
setting and log options, which one would normally have with an
individual VSM-02. For example, one can find out the measurements
taken by a remote VSM-02, switch the sensor disable facility on
or off, upload calibrating data and so on. To each VSM-02 unit you
can assign an arbitrary station name of up to 32 characters in
length. This is especially useful for identifying units in
larger networks.
In network mode there is the additional possibility to display
all measured values of all VSM-02 simultaneously and to have them
all protocolled automatically, if desired. Without exaggeration,
this really is an important step towards the goal of real cost and
consumption transparency in the industrial use of technical/medical
gases and compressed air !
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Configuration dialog for network protocolling |
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Table view of all measured values in the network |
Since individual VSM-02 units can be set up in many different ways
(e.g. show consumption in SCFM rather than in m³, use 32 °F for
standardization rather than 15 °C and so on), it is clear that some
care must be taken when directly comparing measured values from
different VSM-02.
In network mode, however, all necessary conversions are done
automatically, so that all measured values
are presented in the physical units set up in the configuration dialog
for network protocolling.
As a positive side-effect of measuring the standardized consumption
over a VSM-02 network there can also be seen the actual values of
line pressure, medium temperature and density (and be protocolled,
if wanted).
Of course the network measurements do not only show the actual
consumption, but do also query each units built-in long time
consumption counter. As mentioned above, the readout of the
consumption counter is also automatically converted in network mode,
if necessary, in order to always make direct comparisons
possible.
Direct comparisons, however, can lead to a just distribution of costs
between cost centers, one of the perhaps most important objectives
in plant management.
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