Netshield has released its next-generation Inline GSM Power Monitor IOT Gateway, which allows services businesses to remotely monitor for business disruptions, including power outages, temperature changes, humidity, flooding and door contacts, on their clients' sites.
The device is aimed at business-critical environments where the delivery of services depends on third-party facilities such as utility power and building HVAC systems for cooling.
The device includes kettle-type connectors (C13/C14) at both ends, to through-feed power to critical devices. With this addition, it can monitor a number of optional extra environmental factors beyond power, and with the inclusion of a REST API, it can be incorporated into a variety of third-party event management applications.
Inus Dreckmeyr, CEO of Netshield South Africa, says this is the ideal device for organisations that have support service-level agreements in place with customers.
"Once deployed inline, through-feeding enables the power to be fed to critical networking devices such as remote equipment, ATMs and cabinets. It will then dynamically alert administrators and deploy event management software, via the IOT protocol MQTP, when there is a power disruption, spike in temperature, flooding, changes in humidity or a door left open."
He says this enables organisations to react and respond to potential service disruptions by informing their clients of support issues as they happen. This saves on the costs associated with support personnel making calls to establish the source of a problem and eliminates the need to dispatch technical callout staff on issues such as power failures on remote sites.
The Netshield Inline GSM Power Monitor has several features, including utility mains power detector, GSM unit with a micro SIM socket, an internal GSM antenna, an internal Lithium-ion polymer rechargeable backup battery with up to two days' battery life, charger and sensor interfaces.
Through "phantom feeding" of power directly to the sensors from the gateway unit, alerts can be sent in the event of anomalous behaviour. For example, administrators can set acceptable ranges for temperature and humidity, and when there is a deviation from this range, the unit will send an alert.
In addition, a unit can be set up to send information to any telemetry port in the cloud or a private environment. The integrated REST APIs allow the database to be prepared for integration into event management systems, ticketing systems, call centres, ITSM or any requesting third-party API environment. The units can also be managed through a custom-built dashboard, or in the absence of a monitoring tool, a customer can ask Netshield to develop a dashboard tailored for their environment.
Finally, the product has status indicators and front-mounted LED indicators to show network and functional statuses.
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