Monitoring & Alarm Notification - What makes RLE’s Falcon FMS so unique?

(Revised and now includes additional inormation and a link to the live Falcon FMS Delta View floor map to provide a better representation of its capabilities.)

Simply put, its features, functionality and price. Pound for pound, no other monitoring and alarm notification system in the world offers the capabilities as RLE’s Falcon FMS at its price-point.

Digital and Analog inputs - The Falcon FMS is designed to provide visibility of, and alarm notifications from, integrated sensors and equipment. It accepts dry contact signals; on/off signals (i.e.: summary alarms from equipment, motion sensors, door sensors, smoke and gas detectors, water sensors, etc.), 4-20mA signals; signals with a range (i.e.: temperature, humidity, amperage, airflow, pressure, etc.). Proprietary sensors, wiring and wiring connections are NOT required and the Falcon FMS is designed to accept 3rd party sensors. This allows the Falcon FMS to accept thousands of sensors including existing sensors that may already be installed on site to provide visibility to conditions from anywhere and anytime. When conditions exceed acceptable limits, the appropriate personnel receive alarm notification to help provide a timely response to help resolve conditions that may be of concern or even potentially lead to down-time.

Take control - If control is important to you, the Falcon FMS’s relay outputs can be manually controlled through the web interface or triggered by events from the status of integrated sensors and equipment. Common uses for the relay outputs include: rebooting equipment remotely, shutting off a valve when water is detected, and triggering an IP camera to capture images based on activity within and area. (Yes, up to ten IP cameras can be integrated into the Falcon FMS!) Recently, we had a customer install the Falcon FMS to monitor and provide images from a computer room that had five rows of cabinets. Their concern was access to the cabinets. The customer installed magnetic door sensors on each cabinet door and then IP cameras at the end of each row. If a cabinet door was opened, the Falcon FMS would trigger the appropriate camera to capture images of the event and then sent the images to the appropriate person responsible for the room. A schedule was configured on the Falcon FMS to only trigger the capture of images between 5 p.m. and 7 a.m. The schedule allowed the Falcon FMS to ignore alarms during regular business hours when the site is already being closely monitored.

Intelligent protocols - But even more impressive is its ability to accept and alarm on information from integrated intelligent protocols including SNMP, Modbus and BACnet. The ability for a monitoring and alarm notification system to accept SNMP, Modbus or BACnet protocols is generally reserved for management systems that usually cost tens of thousands of dollars, require factory or certified installers for setup, and have the costs associated with a system that requires custom programming. The ability to monitor up to thirty devices communicating SNMP, Modbus or BACnet is a standard feature of the Falcon FMS.

Cost effective - The Falcon FMS is commonly installed and configured by the end user, keeping the total cost of ownership even more reasonable than it already is. Since there are no license fees, maintenance contracts or recurring costs, money that would be spent with other monitoring systems (just to keep them up and running) can be used to enhance and expand your Falcon FMS solution.

More than just a basic web interface - RLE’s patented Delta View allows an image file to be uploaded to the Falcon FMS and then the sensors overlaid on the image to provide a comprehensive view of the condition and status of all integrated sensors and equipment. If you have more than one location, Delta View can be used to display installed Falcon products at an unlimited number of locations and provide a color indicator representing the status of each Falcon product and links down to a single location or site, all without any additional costs or software. Delta View is a standard feature on the Falcon FMS. The graphical display showing the status of sensors and equipment can be completely managed by the end user, viewed with a mobile device and is even worthy for a large screen display in an operations center.

RLE's live Falcon FMS demo on the FMS product page of www.rletech.com has a link to the Delta View Floor map. For a direct link to the Delta View floor map, visit https://23.24.146.52/ When prompted for a user name type; falcon (all lower case). A password is not required and the password field should be left blank.

Colored items (status points and boxes with values) on the Delta View floor map that have a black outside border are simulated points for this drawing. Colored items without a black border (shown in the boxes below) are live sensors and equipment that provide additional information when moused over or the points (circles) are clicked on.

A stand-alone system - The Falcon FMS can be accessed and configured with a web browser, provide alarm notification to specific personnel when conditions exceed acceptable limits, provide views from up to ten integrated IP address (commonly used for IP cameras), provide if/then, and/or logic control, log information from integrated sensors and equipment and even display the calculated PUE/DCiE based on the values from up to 32 sensors to help identify how efficient your location is.

Expansion capabilities – The Falcon FMS is designed to be scalable and provide a solution for unique applications. The FMS will accommodate eight inputs, has two relay outputs and will accommodate up to 30 devices with up to integrated with SNMP, Modbus or BACnet protocols. Internal expansion cards can be added to allow the FMS to accept up to 104 hardwired inputs and 34 relay outputs.

The Falcon FMS integrated - Its functionality doesn’t stop with being a stand-alone monitoring and notification system. In addition to accepting SNMP, Modbus and BACnet, the Falcon FMS can integrate into a management system using the same protocols. This not only helps with future expansion, as budgets allows, but also simplifies the issues of convergence in the event that there is older equipment with protocols not designed to integrate into management system requiring Internet protocol. This protocol conversion even makes the Falcon FMS an attractive solution for those who would like to aggregate numerous sensors, signals and protocols and then translate the information to a single protocol for simplified integration into a management system.

Although primary purpose of the Falcon FMS was to provide alarm notification with remote visibility to the current conditions, basic control from off-site and simplify the signal convergence into management systems, due to its features and functionality, the actual limitation of the Falcon FMS is generally determined by the imagination of the user.

How will you use yours?

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