For most industrial monitoring solutions, alerts via email, text and voice calls are effective. But when on-site personnel need to be made immediately aware of potential threats to IT infrastructure and business continuity, audio-visual alarm beacons are the optimum alert method.
An audio-visual alarm beacon can easily be added to Jacarta’s iMeter Lite, iMeter and interSeptor Pro-XP monitoring devices, available from ESIS.
The beacon comes as standard with an orange lens but red and green lenses are also available on request.
It features two volume levels, which can be changed via the internal DIP switches. It can also be supplied as light-only for use in settings where audio alarms are not suitable.
The beacon connects to the host device via an interface cable, which can be custom made up to 30m in length for ease of installation.
Deploying a beacon with the iMeter and iMeter Lite
Connecting an alarm beacon to the iMeter and iMeter Lite is straightforward, as the RJ45 sensor input ports also function as relay output ports.
The comprehensive alerting matrix on the devices allows users to trigger the beacon for specific alarms and conditions. For example, the beacon can be set to only trigger in the event of a certain sensor type reaching a critical threshold.
By using different coloured beacons, users can quickly see what sensor has triggered the alarm. For example, temperature alarms could trigger a red beacon, while water leaks a green beacon and other conditions an orange beacon.
All sensor types can activate a beacon, including the iMeter and iMeter Lite’s virtual sensors. These virtual sensors allow the device to monitor other network equipment via SNMP and ping tasks. This opens up options such as triggering a beacon if an SNMP-enabled UPS enters a low-battery state or if a server does not respond to pings.
The iMeter Lite also features an internal buzzer which can alert users to potential threats. The internal buzzer is significantly quieter than the external alarm beacon, so is best suited to small requirements or as a backup alerting method.
Deploying a beacon with the interSeptor Pro-XP
The interSeptor Pro-XP features 2 sets of dry-contact output terminals.Sensors connected any of the sensor ports can be configured to trigger either of the the dry-contact outputs. Users can decide which of the connected sensors trigger the alerts and can also ‘postpone’ beacon activation so it only sounds after a sensor has been in an alarm state for a certain period of time.
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Article courtesy of Jacarta.
