3G Cellular for Dispersed Air-conditioners’ Monitoring
As air-conditioner market becomes increasingly competitive, more and more manufactures want to guarantee their profits by improving their service and reducing maintenance costs.
Monitoring over 3G Cellular helps air-conditioner manufactures centrally manage their products by:
- Providing operating data to R&D, so that they can analysis it to improve product functions
- Noticing engineering staff potential failure to avoid unnecessary loss
- Remotely maintaining air-conditioners to save business trip costs
In the below project, InHand Networks help one of the biggest air-conditioner manufactures to create its remote monitor service system by using 3G technology.
In this project, the air-conditioner manufacture wanted to provide its customers with value added service including status analysis, running diagnosis and maintenance service. During the implementation, the manufacture encountered a lot of difficulties, for example, they should use a suitable networking method which can cost-effectively cover all the buildings installed their air conditioner.
According to the customer’s real need, we proposed the networking solution based on 3G mobile network. At the remote site, the PLC connected with several sensors which were used to measure the status (temperature, vibration amplitude, etc.) of the air-conditioner key parts such as the centrifuge machine. After initial calculation, the PLC would send the information to InRouter 711WH01 industrial cellular router, which first connected to the internet and then created secured VPN tunnel to the monitoring center through universal UMTS network. The monitoring center should have a public fixed IP which enable IR711WH01 routers to reach the data center. After created the VPN tunnel, the manufacture could easily observe the status of any air conditioner they wanted to.
To fulfill requirements of air-conditioner manufactures, InHand Networks provides not only complete solutions, but also wide choice of products:
1.InRouter 700 series are capable to work robustly in harsh outdoor circumstances, and they are especially suitable for unattended work places.
- Industrial design and easy installation
- Wide operating temperature: -25~+70℃(-13~158℉)
- Humidity: 5% ~ 95%, non-condensing
- Immunity to EMI
2.Support several VPN technologies(IPSec/PPTP/L2TP/GRE/SSL VPN etc.) to ensure security.
3.Preventive maintenance supports real-time data monitoring and historical data review, so researchers of air-conditioner companies can forecast possible problems and solve them ahead of time.
4.When some air-conditioner cannot run normally, engineering staff can diagnose it remotely. Only if the problems cannot be solved through network, engineering staff have to leave for field to solve them.
5.Considering other requirements of air-conditioner manufactures in future, InHand solutions provide enough possibilities for extensions of functions or features of air-conditioner. For example, if manufactures want to provide customers with suggestions of energy saving, they can add energy consumption analysis function to the original monitoring system.
