The principle
Machine to Machine (M2M) provides automated communication between remote machines or machines that have difficulties communicating naturally and your business’s information systems.
Receive vital information from your machine assets depending on parameters you have defined and make your decisions in real time.
Using M2M, you control, share and remotely manage your remote equipment simply.
Data acquisition
Webdyn connects your equipment to the Internet or to your Intranet using smart Internet gateways. The Webdyn hardware platform is composed of an extremely compact board that includes all the network and industrial interfaces.
Data processing
The collected data is archived, formatted in a log and made available to Web services. Alarms are reported to on call staff by email or text message.
Data transmission
Data is transferred to your business’s information systems using static (RTC, Ethernet) or mobile (GSM, GPRS, Wifi) telecommunications networks. Transmission is based on standard Internet protocols and Web services.
Data centralisation
For machine assets, the data collected from different gateways is shared, formatted, stored and made available to your client applications.
Data viewing and use, remote control
Data viewing and use
The collected data is integrated into your applications (PGI, GCL, GRC)
Alarm recovery and processing
Parameter updates
Real time action
Using terminals: PC, PDA, Pager, Pocket PC, Landline or cell phone.
Viewing is by email, text message or customisable HTML page accessible from a basic web browser.
Examples of functions
Machine to Machine (M2M) solutions offer many application possibilities (telemetry, remote management, etc.):
Traceability: Data collection, regular logs, history, etc.
Status information: Remote meter readings, stock management, etc.
Location data: Delivery, vehicle, etc. tracking
Remote control: Control command, parameter or set point updates
Remote maintenance:
Preventive: regular equipment monitoring and drift monitoring using the log
Curative: remote troubleshooting, repair assistance, automatic sending of incident data to on call staff
Remote surveillance: Alarm reporting, email or text message notifications, installation security, heartbeat
The benefits
The receipt of vital information in real time from your machine assets allows you to fulfil your business’s competitiveness and cost control requirements.
Increased competitiveness
– Automatic reporting of equipment, stock, etc. statuses
– Computerised database updates: Integration with ERPs
– Remote machine asset management: troubleshooting, parameter updates
– Actions triggered in real time: resupply, repairs
– Increased equipment availability and reliability
– Better real time information
– Improved reactivity to equipment malfunctions
– Increased equipment and associated service availability
– Increased productivity
– Better customer satisfaction
Better profitability
– Reduced losses due to equipment down time
– Reduced management and maintenance costs
– The collected data, especially during real time stock checks, can be used internally by the business to improve its services or sold to service providers as a marketing tool: consumer habits, service use conditions.
– Cost control
– New value-added services
Fields of application
The number of machines capable of communicating data is almost infinite: in Europe it is estimated to be 13 billion units. Webdyn’s M2M solutions allow any type of equipment to communicate, here are some examples:
Heating and air conditioning: heat, cooling management, preventive maintenance, etc.
Telecommunications and audiovisual: transmission, infrastructure management, remote PABX management, etc.
Automation: control/command, remote PLC programming, variable speed drive configuration, equipment monitoring, etc.
Building management systems: elevators, doors, etc.
Local authorities: display panels, public lighting, parking meters, automatic watering, etc.
Energy environment: water treatment and distribution, gas and electricity distribution management (pipeline, etc.)
Office equipment: printers, copy machines, meter readings, automatic invoice generation, etc.
Security: site surveillance, motion detection, access management, etc.
Transport: traffic light management, vehicle location, etc.
Enter the “ethernet” or “modem” connection type:
For an ethernet configuration, make sure the IP parameters are compatible with server access according to the concentrator local network configuration. For an ethernet connection, the configuration must be compatible with the concentrator’s local network topology so that it can access the servers. This configuration is done from the “Networks” configuration page (see section 3.2.2.3: “Networks”).
For a modem connection, the modem configuration must be correct before a connection can be set up. This configuration is done from the “Modem” configuration page (see section 3.2.2.4: “Modem”).
The parameters for the servers to be configured are at least the following:
Therefore the following fields need to be configured: “Interface”, “Type”, “Server type”, “Address”, “Port”, “Login” and “Password”.
The other fields can be left at the default values subject to the directories having been properly created beforehand. See section 3.1.2: “Configuration files” for more details.
Wait. The concentrator will reboot using its factory configuration.
