More than 10 years ago ABE Elettronica was amongst the first pioneering companies to integrate in its equipment (TV Transmitters, Microwave Links, Encoders) a remote management system operating through modems (telephone / data / GSM / GPRS) to remotely control and monitor all of the equipment parameters and send notifications, for example via SMS text message, alarms and other system alerts.
Now ABE has developed a new control board, which will be implemented in all products, employing a LAN interface (Ethernet 10/100 Base-T – RJ45 connector) with the following functionality:
• web server securely protected with username / password (with 3 different control levels) able to read and set all equipment parameters.
• event logger (register all alarms, switch-on, faults, etc. with date and time log) with the capacity to store over 5,000 events that can be downloaded through the embedded web server.
• Control board software (firmware) remotely upgradeable.
• e-mail client to automatically notify, via e-mail (to pre-registered e-mail addresses) variations in the alarm conditions.
• SNMP AGENT able to send alerts (traps), read equipment parameters (e.g. the output power through the “get” command), manage the equipment (e.g. to reset through the “set” command).
The LAN connection between the ABE equipment and the control centre can be established through a GPRS or UMTS modem / router, a data link or an ADSL / PSTN modem.
As clearly emerges from the description above, among the remote management systems available in the market today, ABE has created, without doubt, one of the most complete, sophisticated and advanced system monitoring tools.