Re: How suitable would Xap be for monitoring Gas + Electric?

["Paul Bendall" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kevin,

Do you have details of how you monitor the zones for electircity, gas
and water? What sort of sensors do you use?

Paul

--- In xap_automation@xxxxxxx, "Kevin Hawkins"
<yahoogroupskh@...> wrote:
>
> Just to mention that xAP hardware can also help here.
>
> There is a device called the xAP Netiom
>
> http://www.phaedrusltd.com/system/index.html
>
> This provides a lot of I/O (inputs , outputs, serial, counters,
> latches) as well as a web interface and all the I/O is xAP enabled.
>
> One of the useful aspects for this application is the counters and
you
> can attach the pulse output type energy meters to an input and have
> the Netiom count those pulses for you.   Then you can either report
> them every 'n' increments via xAP or have an application that just
> reads them.  Effectively you have a network readable meter, meaning
> you don't need the PC available 24/7.
>
> I use this approach myself for several zones of electric and both
gas
> and water.
>
>   K
>



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