Wireless beacons deliver improved machine monitoring
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Low power wireless specialist, IDC, has announced that it is providing improved, cable-less machine monitoring and enhanced safeguarding with a new range of wireless-enabled stacking beacons. The new beacons allow central machine monitoring of all machine types, existing and new, including those that for reasons of cabling complexity were previously considered impossible to network.
IDC's wireless stacking beacons are manufactured by DG Controls (Deegee), which manufactures the UK's largest range of visual and audible warning equipment. Each Deegee lamp stack has an intermediate section provided, and this is fitted with a module enabling any standard Deegee lamp stack to be wireless enabled using the IDC module.
The ZB100 OEM module offers links for two operating modes. The first enables the state of the beacon lamps to be monitored over the wireless network to wireless Gateway, which is connected to a central PC using standard Ethernet or USB connection. This mode is intended for machinery control systems using existing signal towers installed by conventional cabling. Simply by installing a wireless module to each beacon stack, the beacons can report the state of each lamp over the wireless network to immediately notify plant supervisors of problems. In addition to machine status, IDC's PC software can also provide real time analysis of the plant for management and maintenance departments.
