One of the major benefits of the PCO¹ is the quick and easy connectivity to Building Management Systems (BMS). A variety of add-on cards and gateways are available to communicate data via the most popular protocols (a description of each serial interface available is here).

BacNet^TM

LonWorks^®

Modbus^®

JCI's N2 Open^®

Trend/Novar.

Carel protocol on RS232 MODEM

SMS text messages for GSM Cell phones

TCP/IP Ethernet^TM (FTP, HTTP, SNMP). 

Alternatively, a Carel supervisory software developed specifically for pCO¹ is also available. The system runs on any Windows^TM based personal computer and features a web server, allowing data communication via HTML pages and easy web browser access. Alarms, trends and events are stored on the hard drive for review; the system features also dial-out and dial-in capabilities to send emails, faxes or SMS text messages to GSM cell phones in the event of failures. For a live demonstration of the product (Pl@ntVisor) click here, otherwise click here for more information.

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