"You no longer have to look for the data — the data will be looking for you!" ©

The Phoenix System is a turnkey remote monitoring system that enables you to monitor your information via the Internet. If you want 24x7 access to your remote or unattended equipment and would like to eliminate costly site visits, then FSI Phoenix is for you! FSI Phoenix is simple to install and simple to use.

FSI Phoenix Provides:

• continuous, reliable equipment monitoring
• worldwide, secure, 24x7, access to accurate information about your equipment
• a generic web-based portal that can be tailored to your liking & specific requirements
• fully configurable alarms and warnings
• automated alarm/warning notifications (SMS/email) to your mobile phone or PDA
• data acquisition and storage for immediate or future analysis

FSI PHOENIX ™ — System Overview

There are three major system components:

• Phoenix Monitor
• Phoenix Collector
• Phoenix Portal

A basic Phoenix System is illustrated in the following diagram:






Phoenix Monitor ™

The Phoenix Monitor is responsible for monitoring equipment runtime parameters and process variables. The Monitor provides a dedicated gateway between the customer's equipment and the Collector. Every Collector includes an integrated Monitor.


The basic Monitor currently supports up to 16 digital inputs and up to 16 analog inputs:

• 8 General Purpose Digital Inputs
• 8 Dry Contact Inputs
• 8 4-20mA Inputs
• 8 0-10VDC Inputs

The Phoenix system can be tailored to monitor just about anything. FSI can develop custom sensor solutions to meet your needs. The Phoenix Monitor can be easily installed to monitor an existing SCADA system. FSI Phoenix provides maximum flexibility and superior performance.

With an optional onboard relay, the Collector has the added ability of local control (activating a local alarm or horn or equipment shutdown.) The relay can be manually controlled from the Portal or automatically controlled by the Monitor.

The Phoenix Monitor can be installed in a few simple steps. For more information you can visit the Phoenix Installation Page.


Phoenix Collector ™

The Collector gathers data from up to 100 Phoenix Monitors. The Collector transfers all gathered data to the Phoenix Portal. The Collector can communicate with Monitors using a variety of wireless and wired connections. The Collector requires an Internet connection. The following four connections are currently available:

• Cellular Modem — CDMA / GSM
• Wired Ethernet Connection
• Analog (Dial-up) Modem
• Wi-Fi 802.11b/g Wireless Network

For additional security, the Collector can be equipped with an intrusion alarm that can be used to monitor the number of times the Collector door was opened, and for how long. This intrusion alarm can be wired to any other piece of equipment where access needs to be monitored.

The Phoenix Collector can be installed in a few simple steps. For more information you can visit the Phoenix Installation Page.


Phoenix Portal ™

The Portal is a custom web-application, recently developed using the latest technologies. This application is hosted on a high-speed server and installed according to all industry standards. The Portal provides you with secure access and secure storage of your data.

The Portal is responsible for storing, displaying, and analyzing the data that is transmitted from Collectors. Phoenix customers can access the data stored on the Portal 24 hours a day using any Internet connection and a web browser. No additional software is required. An additional web site is available to support viewing data on handheld devices such as cellular phones and PDAs.

Access all of your information from anywhere! ©

• Your Office PC
• Your Home PC
• Your PDA
• Your Smart Phone
• Your Cellular Phone

Dashboard view

Creating a Watch

Alarms

The user can also configure the Portal to scan the incoming data for errors and alarms. All error and alarm conditions are fully configurable by the user and error reports can be received in a number of ways:

• email
• text message to your cell phone or PDA
• voice message to your phone

You no longer have to look for the data — the data will be looking for you! ©


Data Storage

All data received from the Collectors is stored on the secure Portal server, where it is kept for up to five years. Data CDs or DVDs can be created for archival purposes.


Equipment:

We can tailor the Phoenix System to monitor just about anything!

• Existing or legacy SCADA Systems
• Remote buildings, storage barns
• Weather data
• Compressors
• Plant process alarms
• Any unattended equipment
• Standby generators
• Water and wastewater
• Laundromats
• Car washes
• Controlled temperature baths
• Battery chargers
• PCs
• Chambers ( Pressure / Temperature / Humidity / Shock / Radiation / Vacuum / Vibration )
• Clean room equipment
• Motors ( DC / brushless / stepper / servo )
• Detectors ( leak / air flow / gas / ground fault / radiation / tone / ultraviolet / vacuum / voltage )
• Meters ( ampere / audiolevel / capacitance / coercivity / conductance / decibel / ESR / oxygen / fluid flow / frequency / gauss / humidity / light / voltage / power / temperature / Watt )
• Gauges ( force / humidity / pressure / temperature )
• Furnaces
• Heaters
• Thermal Imagers
• Ovens
• Printing Presses
• Filters ( water / air / etc. )

Acronyms and definitions:

PDA	—	Personal Digital Assistants are handheld devices that were originally designed as personal organizers, but became much more versatile over the years. A basic PDA usually includes date book, address book, task list, memo pad, clock, and calculator software. Newer PDAs also have both color screens and audio capabilities, enabling them to be used as mobile phones, web browsers or media players. Many PDAs can access the Internet, intranets or extranets via Wi-Fi, or Wireless Wide-Area Networks (WWANs).
Cell Phone	—	Customers can use a cell phone to receive information from their equipment. Based on sensor readings and Portal settings, customers can receive notices generated by the equipment, or notices generated by the Portal. Notification can be received as a Voice Call or SMS (short message service) message. Your cell phone can be used to access the information about your equipment using a built in web-browser. The Phoenix Portal provides a special website for low resolution screens used in these devices.
Modem	—	A modem is a device that modulates an analog carrier signal to encode digital information, and also demodulates such a carrier signal to decode the transmitted information. The goal is to produce a signal that can be transmitted easily and decoded to reproduce the original digital data. Modems can be used over any means of transmitting analog signals, from driven diodes to radio. The Phoenix System can work with any modem, which supports a serial port interface. It can be a Cellular Modem, which will use a wireless cellular network, or a wired modem, which will require an analog phone line.
Ethernet	—	Ethernet is a frame-based computer networking technology for local area networks (LANs). The name comes from the physical concept of ether. It defines wiring and signaling for the physical layer, and frame formats and protocols for the Media Access Control (MAC)/data link layer of the OSI model. Ethernet is mostly standardized as IEEEs 802.3. It has become the most widespread LAN technology in use during the 1990s to the present, and has largely replaced all other LAN standards such as token ring, FDDI, and ARCNET. The Phoenix Collector can use an Ethernet connection with an Internet gateway to upload the data to the Portal. This requires availability of an Ethernet connection on, or near the installation site.
WiFi (802.11 b/g)	—	Short for 'wireless fidelity'. A term for certain types of wireless local area networks (WLAN) that use specifications conforming to IEEE 802.11b. It is a limited-range wireless networking protocol that uses radio frequencies in the 2.4 GHz range to exchange data at broadband speeds. Using a WiFi wireless card the Phoenix System can use a WiFi connection with Internet gateway to upload data acquired from equipment. It is a simple and useful way to provide the Internet connection to the Collector. This requires WiFi 802.11 b/g wireless network coverage on the installation site.
GP Digital Input	—	are logic-level, on/off inputs that can be used to monitor machine status, alarm signals, or any other logic-level digital signal.
Dry Contact Input	—	can be connected to open, de-energized relay contacts of a monitored device in order to accept an on/off indication of an alarm condition, a status signal, or any other 2-state parameter.
4-20mA Input	—	is an analog electrical transmission standard for industrial instrumentation. The symbol "mA" is standard SI notation for milliampere, or 1/1000 of an ampere. The signal is a current loop where 4 mA represents zero percent signal and 20 mA represents the one hundred percent signal. The reason zero is at 4 mA and not 0 mA is that this "live zero" allows the receiving instrumentation to differentiate between a zero signal and a broken wire or a dead instrument. This standard was developed in the 1950s and is still widely used in industry today, even though many attempts have been made to replace it with digital forms of communication such as fieldbus and Profibus. Its benefits of being a widely followed standard, low cost, its reliability and immunity to electrical noise keep it in regular use. Current loop is also much easier to understand and debug than more complicated digital fieldbuses. Using fieldbuses and solving related problems usually requires much more education and understanding than required by simple current loop solutions. Additional digital communication to the device can be added to current loop using HART Protocol.
0-10VDC Input	—	Is an analog electrical transmission standard for industrial instrumentation. The 0-10VDC output is common among sensor signal conditioners. The Phoenix system accepts up to eight isolated analog inputs, each consisting of a DC excitation (power), ground, and 0-10V analog signal. The analog voltage can represent pressure, temperature, water level, or any other sensor output that has a 0-10V signal conditioner.
Intrusion Alarm	—	is a dry contact input, connected to a momentary switch, which is located on the door of the equipment enclosure. When the door is closed — contacts are shorted, when the door is open, the contacts are not shorted. The Phoenix System detects this and generates a warning. Using one Phoenix Collector or Monitor you can monitor intrusions on up to 8 objects using dry contact inputs.
SCADA	—	is the acronym for Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition. The term refers to a large-scale, distributed measurement (and control) system. SCADA systems are used to monitor or to control chemical, physical or transport processes.