While many larger municipalities have full blown SCADA systems monitoring their larger sites, there are many smaller sites and many smaller municipalities of under 1000 people that cannot justify or afford the cost of a SCADA system with an HMI computer, radios, and communications infrastructure. MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport) has opened a whole new …
Fortinet® Firewall and SCADADroid® A client of Reonix Automation successfully integrated over 20 SCADADroid® R2+ alarm dialers with Fortinet® firewall devices. This Fortinet® addition will protect the network of client SCADADroid®s and an existing SCADA system. This is an exciting development for SCADADroid®, as it adds to our growing list of easily integrated software. SCADADroid® …
What is VoLTE? Voice over LTE (Long Term Evolution) is a new protocol that allows voice calls to be made over the LTE datanetwork. You’re probably wondering how this was done before, since you currently are using the LTE network. Currently 4G phones are falling back on old technology to make voice calls and using LTE …
Objective Integration of Allen-Bradley® PLC communications with alarm dialers previously required specific software and/or hardware converters, but by assigning the CompactLogix™ or ControlLogix® PLC a Modbus client, the SCADADroid® alarm dialer can read messages easily using the Modbus TCP/IP protocol. Solution Programming the CompactLogix™/ControlLogix® PLC as a Modbus TCP client within Allen-Bradley® RSLogix 5000®. Refer …
SCADADroid® with MQTT- Providing Peace of Mind for Alberta’s Farmers Reonix Automation Inc. set about automating an Alberta farmers’ grain dryer. One of the core requirements of the application was providing a more hands-off approach, by relaying some of the crucial data straight to the customer’s hands. We were able to do just that… Through the use of a SCADADroid® Android ® application, and MQTT …
How Remote Monitoring can be Revolutionized by MQTT To speak to the issue of telemetry like MQTT, it must first be put into context. Why a protocol can revolutionize an industrial application depends on how industry will be conducted, and what tools will be used in the near and far futures –so as to avoid …