Remote asset control system offers easy use

The free Fusion configuration package allows a single engineer to design and maintain a total asset management system.

The Controlstar System provides a comprehensive solution for building and maintaining remote asset control and management telemetry systems.

These products provide powerful user-friendly asset management solutions, with minimum engineering and support costs.

The core of the system is the 'Fusion' configuration package, this free issue tool allows a single engineer to design and maintain a total asset management system.

Fusion is a highly visual design tool, which uses a pick and place approach to create an integrated system for the Controlstar System products.

The Controlstar unit is an autonomous site control unit.

It supports a range of communication methods with the upper level Scada systems.

The Controlstar has a powerful PLC function which is visually programmed using straightforward function blocks.

The detailed operation of these function block control algorithms can be viewed online using the Scada.

The Controlstar can also be equipped to take feeds from two CCTV cameras, the compressed images allow this capability to be used over low-bandwidth communication links.

The images are directly displayed in a Scada window.

The Controlstar also supports a local Scada either for intermittent connection or a permanent MMI station.

The Micro-Controlstar is a solar-powered unit.

It is designed for small sites (down to monitoring a single measurement).

As with the larger Controlstar the Micro can operate using GSM, dial up circuits, or radio.

For distributed sites where cabling is a problem, multiple Micros can operate locally over a radio, with one unit acting as the master for long distance communications to the central office.

The Micro can also act as a peripheral to the main Controlstar, again using radio.

The aggregator/server provides the hub of a system.

It is composed of a communications front end, and an embedded IBM Cloudscape Relational Database.

It acts as the server for Scada clients.

The Controlstar Systems Scada software provides all the standard facilities of a Scada.

It is a client to the Aggregator that can co-exist on the same machine or be connected either directly over Ethernet or remotely over a dial-up circuit.

The Aggregator supports multiple Scadas over all methods of connection.

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