Networking permanently installed units
Up to 255 units can be networked with optional RS232/RS485 converters, resulting in a network
of up to 1200 m in length. For mobile measurements up to four devices can be
quickly connected with simple cables (without converters) to form a local cluster, which is treated
by the software just like a regular network, too.
Over a central PC, which is connected to the network, there are in principle
all measured values of all networked devices
accessible at any time.
So it is possible to get a live survey of
the actual standardized consumption in the separate departments, for example.
Of course one can monitor as well the line pressure, the medium temperature, the medium
density and so on. All measured values can simultaneously
be protocolled.
All protocol functions of the software, which were already described for
an individual, permanently installed VSM-02, are also available in an
extended version, which can protocol the measured
values of all (or selected) networked devices.
It is natural to use permanently installed VSM-02 in order to
find a just cost distribution between cost centers.
Sometimes a weekly
or monthly control tour will be all that is needed for this purpose. Of
course no PC is required to read and note the displayed consumption values
on such a tour.
On the other hand networked measuring devices in combination with a
PC do offer
such a high, unprecedented degree of consumption transparency
that almost all of our bigger customers use the devices in this way.
No more tedious control tours, but instead the possibility to have a
central, instantaneous survey over all consumption activities throughout
the plant, virtually in the very moment in which the
consumption is caused (!).
Leakages, consumptions during idle times, unefficient machines and much
more become visible at once! Measures to stop the waste can therefore
be taken immediately rather than much later,
after the avoidable costs have had time enough to cumulate.
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