SpYdaq ~ Low Cost Wireless Monitoring System

SpYdaq Low Cost Wireless Monitoring Solutions

spYdaq® is our low cost wireless monitoring and alarming system. This is a system overview, full details on the individual instruments can be found in the
wireless monitoring section

spYdaq® is a system comprising of a number of radio transmitting sensors that measure parameters and sends them securely using a licence free radio network to a central base station. The data are sent using a Manchester Encoded error correcting code with multiple transmissions which, when combined with Antenna Diversity, ensures there is no loss of data in normal use from a properly installed system. Up to 16 transmitters can communicate to a single base station with each transmitter capable of having up to three inputs: Temperature, Relative Humidity or Universal - Universal inputs can be configured to accept almost any type of measurement sensor . The base station collects the data from the transmitters and has a number of ways of recording the values:

CLOUD connection - An internal GPRS modem sends the values direct to our secure cloud servers via the mobile phone network.

RS232 serial port configured as a Modbus slave to any Modbus master.

USB - USB connection to a local computer running our spYmonitor-local web interface.
The base station contains enough memory to hold 15,488 sets of readings (up to three parameters per transmitter) and 255 alarm events. This should allow the system to operate for up to 6 days with a system containing 16 transmitters, each transmitting every 10 minutes in the event of the GPRS connection or local PC connection being lost.

There is also a USB port used for initial configuration of the base station using our spYconfig software.

The wide range of inputs offered by the universal transmitter design enables virtually any parameter to be measured and logged by connecting an appropriate sensor. Parameters that can be measured and logged are:

Temperature
Humidity
Pt 100
Thermocouple Types J, K, T, R, S
4-20 mA - Scaled in engineering units
Voltage
Contact Closure

The Basestation checks locally for alarm conditions with inbuilt audio and visual alarms as well as providing a switched contact output that can be used to trigger external devices. Alarming locally means that potential
trouble spots can be quickly detected and corrective action taken immediately, perhaps saving an entire batch from damage.

A live system can be seen by going to http://www.spydaq.com/user_login.php - Login by entering the word demo in all three fields.