SMC-300 Site Management Controller

A flexible, feature-rich solution for reliable and immediate alarm notification from a remote site allowing support staff to know when, where and why a problem has occurred, so they can provide prompt corrective action well before comfort or safety is affected.

The SMC-300 captures, buffers, and prioritizes alarms from devices on a local LonWorks® network and then automatically dials-out and routes the alarms to local or remote computers or pagers based on configurable priority, alarm type and schedule.

By dialing-out to a remote computer that is running Circon’s Visual Integrator 3, the SMC-300 provides a reliable and economical approach for central monitoring of remote sites. Visual Integrator 3’s comprehensive alarm management functions include displaying alarms the moment they are received, logging alarms in history database and forwarding alarms by email to any email-enabled device.

The SMC-300:

• captures, buffers, and prioritizes alarms from devices on a LonWorks network.

• works with all Circon 300-series devices and any open, interoperable LonWorks device that supports the LonMark® standard alarm network variable of type SNVT_alarm.

• automatically dials-out and routes alarms to multiple destinations over the inexpensive and ubiquitous public standard telephone network.

• monitors up to 250 devices on the local network and generates an alarm should a failure be detected.

• sends periodic heartbeat notifications to verify that it too continues to function.

• includes a modem and SLTA-10-equivalent network interface in single compact enclosure, allowing a network management tool such as Circon’s Network Integrator 3 to dial-in to perform site maintenance activities, saving the time and cost of unnecessary service calls.

• includes a battery-backed hardware clock, making SMC-300 ideally suited as the network’s master time source, saving the cost of an additional special purpose device.

• is password-protected; without the valid password the SMC-300 will not allow the remote computer dialing-in to access the network.

• LonMark certified with Modem Controller functional profile #5091.

• Easy-to-use LNS® plug-in software simplifies configuration.