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Alarm Monitoring
     Eagle Automation Corporation is a leader in remote monitoring and control systems including automatic meter reading (AMR), alarm point monitoring, and remote equipment control via the web.
     Our automated, remote monitoring systems allow you to reduce operating costs and redirect critical resources from the tedium of manual reading to more value-added functions.  Perhaps more importantly, our automated solutions are on-call 24 hours/day, 7 dyas/week, constantly monitoring your equipment and reporting important information.
     The low-cost, reliable system for remote monitoring, data collection, and control.  Just hook it up and log on.  The Eagle Alert Remote Monitoring System checks inputs from equipment remotely and provides automatic notification of alarm events by fax, page, and/or e-mail, all for a low monthly service fee.
     Coupled also with our frequently-asked Eagle Reports , you can also monitor measurements and alarms any time.  Please visit our Eagle Reports page for more details.
     If you would like to know which solution(s) best suits your needs, please review the content below. If you would like to download a free copy of how Eagle Automation can provide Alarm Monitoring for you, please click here.
 
Eagle Alerts
     Define registers and access readings from the Eagle Alert website.  All of the Eagle Alert units conserve power by having the radion on only during the short transmission period.  The units come equipped with an antenna, gel-cell battery, solar panel re-charger, and mounting hardware.
       A lithium-powered version is available with an expected battery life of 1500 transmissions (or up to five years).  All products are approved by UL/CUL for installation in Class I, Divsion 2 hazardous locations.  If you would like to see a comparision sheet with the specifications of the Eagle Alerts, please click here.  Eagle Alerts are also great because they are covered by the Aeris network throught the United States, Canada, and Mexico.  With our satellite version you can also use your Eagle Alerts anywhere in the world.  If you would like to see our coverage maps, please click here.
 

Automatic Meter Reading

     The Eagle Alert AMR6 reports utility meter readings daily with up to six digits of index resolution.  The AMR6 counts contact closures from the mater and stores a cumulative reading in non-volatile memory.  During installation, the unit is set to match the meter's reading to allow for occasional verification of accuracy.  Meter readings are reported daily using a nationwide wireless data network and posted on Eagle Reports.  You can configure the AMR6 to store the reading at a particular time that may be different from the reporting time to ensure that meter readigns from multiple meters are comparative.  
     Eagle Alert provides an inexpensive means of collecting data from commercial and industrial gas meters in both urban and rural locations.
     The system communicates gas readings using wireless technology to the secure Internet.  Using the user-friendly interface, information can be viewed from anywhere you have a web connection.  The data can be transferred seamlessly to your business system. Monthly gas reads are primarily used to track the commodity in the system and to provide for custody transfer.  Eagle Alert provides for accurate custody transfer and allows you to eliminate the costs associated with sending a person out to remote locations to take reads.  In the unbundled gas market, Eagle Alert provides feedback on actual daily usage of individual customers to gas marketers so that they may adjust their customer's daily nominations resulting in better balancing across the gas supply system and reductions in severe penalties for missing nominations.
     Currently, Oklahoma Natural Gas is using Eagle Alert to monitor their gas meters.  "Now, a few minutes after nine each morning, all of our meters read and send to [Eagle Automation's server in [Corpus Christi], Texas.  By 9:30 am, the data is posted to a file that can be easily retrieved through the Internet.    We directly import this file to our measurement and accounting systems and post it on the web for customers and gas brokers to view," explained Chris Spriggs, Operations Engineer for Oklahoma Natural Gas.  ONG is also using Eagle Alert for daily retrival of corrected volumes from electronic correctors.
 

Alarm Point Monitor

     The Eagle Alert APM4 product reports the state of up to four digital inputs, two of which can accumulate even counts.  The APM4AM can accept analog or digital signals.  Channels 1-4 are selectable as analog (+/-5V or +/-60mV) or digital.  Channel 5 and 6 can be an accumulator or a digital channel.  APM4AM is capable of receiving Pipe to Soil Test point inputs directly without additional impedance or signal conditioning.
     The units can be set to report when under "alarm" conditions or at pre-configured "health check" intervals.  The health check interval can be as often as ten times per day, as infrequently as once a month, or can be completely turned off.  You can configure alarm conditions in a variety of ways. 
     Configuration parameters for each input allows for alarm masking, filtering, or event configuration.  Automatic alarm notifications can be sent via fax, page, and/or e-mail. 
     We also have available the new satellite Eagle Alert which allows remote monitoring of equipment in any location 24/7.  The APM4AM-SAT is a satellite version of the popular cellular-based APM4AM.  Set up and use of this new device matches the functionality of the APM4AM.  This new unit used the Inmarsat D+ Geosynchronous Earth Orbit Satellite (GEOS) system for communication.  Inmarsat is a financially stable organization that provides ship to shore communications via satellite to 150,000+ shipping vessels around the globe. 
     Satellite technology is an excellent way to supplement installations where 100% cellular coverage is not available.  In North America, Eagle Automation makes it easy to use a combination of cellular control channel and satellite communication to minimize capital costs.  For international use outisde of North America, the APM4AM-SAT is the ideal way to capture data and alarms from your field equipment.
     The APM4AM-SAT monitors many different kinds of equipment including cathodic protection equipment (rectifers, test points, and critical bonds), city gates, compressors, storage tanks, pumping stations, pressure, flow, temperature, and much more.  In addition to monitoring inputs from equipment, the Eagle Alert APM4AM-SAT provides automatic notifications of alarm events via e-mail, fax, page, and/or voice notification.  With secure access, data can be viewed on the INternet from anywhere in the world, day or night.
     The APM3AM-SAT is capable of monitoring analog and discrecte inputs and can accomodate up to 6 inputs.  It is powered by a lead acid battery charged by a solar panel or AC charger.  For corrosion applications, it can be used with rectifier interfaces, test point filters, and surge protection.  UL/CUL approval is pending for installation in hazardous locations.
 

ISeries ICP

     Eagle Automation Corporation's Eagle Alert i-series ICP is a satellite based remote monitoring device that provides scheduled and by exception inbound reporting as well as two-way communication for on-demand reads and activating/deactivating ancillary equipment.  The device can be field upgraded to include a MicroMax GPS80 current interrupter enabling the collecting of IR-free cathodic protection (CP) reads in the most efficient, economical way possible.  The ICP uses the OrbComm satellite system and enables equipment monitoring and control in very remote locations.  It is ideal for international use.

     The ICP monitors many different kinds of equipment in the cathodic protection industry including rectifiers, test points, and critical bonds.  It is also ideal for monitoring equipment in a number of other industries.  The ICP provides automatic notifications of alrm events via e-mail, cell phone, or pager.  With secure access, data can be viewed on the Internet from anywhere in the world, day or night.
     The ICP unit is available in 2 and 4 analog channel versions.  Both versions have 6 digital inputs and 6 digital outputs.  For CP applications, analog inputs are available with filtering and surge protection.  The ICP is easy to install since all configuration of the device takes place via the satellite system, so there is no need for a laptop computer in the field.  It accepts customer supplied AC or DC line power or DC solar power.  In the event of power loss, an internal rechargeable battery provides backup power.
 

Rectifier Interface

     An optional Rectifier Interface is available to provide signal conditioning and surge protection between the Eagle Alert APM4AM and the rectifier in a cathodic protection system.  The Rectifier Interface allows the signal from the rectifier to be turned to the desired lovel for alarm configuration.  It also clamps power surges above 90 volts. 
 

Serial Data Terminal-Modbus

     The Eagle Alert SDT8MOD intergrates Modbus-compatible instruments via an RS232 connection and reports up to eight register readings on a flexible frequency.  The SDT8MOD can be configured to communicate in either ASCII or RTU Modbus.  The unit can send up to two register readings per transmission.  The SDT8MOD accepts contact closure input from an external device for alarming purposes.
 

Vibrating Wire Piezometer Monitor

     The Eagle Alert APM4VW automates the monitoring of vibrating wire piezometers, which measure pore water pressure in soil and rock.  Piezometers enable engineers to monitor the flow of water through or to obtain an estimate of strength and stability of soils and rock.  Piezometers are also used to determine safe fill rates, slope stability, dewatering systems used for excavations, vertical and sand drains, earth fill dams and embankments, and containment systems at land fills and tailing dams.  The device monitors two virbating wire pressure/strain transducers with thermistor termperature inputs.  There are two sets of inputs on each vibrating wire: a piezometer frequency reading (level) and a thermistor temperature reading (level correction).  Units can be set to report under "alarm conditions" or at pre-configured health check intervals.
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