Data monitoring

Data monitoring helps you continuously collect, monitor, and analyze telemetry to ensure the safety and reliability of your installation. Remote processes telemetry from machines such as an industrial oven or a water pump and ensures that this data is clearly available for management and troubleshooting.

What is Data Monitoring?

Data monitoring means that your telemetry is constantly retrieved and analyzed. This telemetry travels from a machine to a PLC via a communication protocol. The PLC sends the data to a router and from there to a remotely managed output location or to your own cloud via a data transfer protocol such as AWS or Azure IoT Hub.

How Does the Data Flow?

In practice, the flow looks like this: a machine (for example, an industrial oven or a water pump) generates telemetry. This telemetry goes via a PLC and a communication protocol such as BACnet, Modbus, or OPC UA to our routers. The routers forward the data to a remotely managed output location, or — if you prefer — to your own cloud solution or local solution via data transfer protocols.

What Can You Do with the Data in the Portal?

In the remote portal, you can view telemetry in various configurable graphs and dashboards. You will also find automatically maintained logs there, and you can set up alarms. Remote offers configurable alarms: when an alarm is triggered, users can be notified via Email and Phone.

Communication Protocols and Expandability

If your cloud solution or local solution is not yet supported, it can usually be implemented. This also applies to additional communication protocols. The most important terms and components in this process are: telemetry, PLC, communication protocol, routers, data transfer protocol, AWS, Azure IoT Hub, cloud solution, local solution, and communication protocols.

Who Manages it?

Remote handles the setup and management of data monitoring and the associated notifications. In the portal, you manage alarm thresholds yourself and determine who receives what in case of an alert. Remote also maintains the logs so that you always have insight into historical events and trends.

1. Data monitoring — overview of possibilities and functionality
2. remote portal — where you view graphs and logs
3. routers — hardware and connectivity
4. Remote — about Remote and our approach
5. BACnet, Modbus, OPC UA — commonly used communication protocols (see portal for integration)
6. Logs and alarms — automatic logging and notification via Email and Phone