Profilux Sms Module Released

[AQD_ottawa]

I could see this announcement getting lost in the PTC launch so here it is again

ProfiLux SMS module now launched MRSP -

(excluding sim card) = $599.00

Available mid June pre orders now being taken

 

[AQD_ottawa]

Dealers are now taking Pre orders

All paid pre orders qualify for the same discount as the PTC chiller

Offer lasts until end of June!

 

[Ken250]

Any word when the SMS units will be available?

 

[AQD_ottawa]

I am waiting for the release immenantly GHL now have everything and I think it is just in testing.

 

[Matthias Gross]

Right now I am working on the last details of the software

Everything is workking so far, just adding some nice add-ons...
We start shipping 15. Nov. 2008

Here is a picture (I got a SMS from my ProfiLux):

You see some text (can be defined by the user) and a status report (all sensors and probes).

 

[AQD_ottawa]

Thats great.

One question i get a lot can you change any paremters by sending a text or is it just monitoring?

 

[Matthias Gross]

this is a device to check all sensor readings, alarms and power cuts

additionally you can get a status report whenever you want (time based, by call, reaction on digital inputs, ...)

it is not an operating unit - how do you want to manage the approx. 1200 different settings which are given in the ProfiLux with a cell phone?

I can't see there any sense. However, if anyone has a great reasonable idea what to change remotely with a cell phone I will consider that.

 

[AQD_ottawa]

If it is possible to do then I would suggest having limited control, I appreciate all 1200 paremeters are not possible.

maybe the key ones

pH
Temp
light

then if you can add more fine, but i think if this was made available I think the unit would have great appeal.

Just a thought as a user rather than man on the ground

 

[TandN]

so this sms module is $600

 

[AQD_ottawa]

estimated price is now $549.00 but depends on what the Euro does in the next month

 

[MSHUR]

Matthias,
Would i need to get two modules for each controller or i can use one SMS two check data on both controllers?

mike

 

[kidney514]

If I was only allowed one, it would be to turn the pumps/filter off, It's nice to monitor everything, but If you are using a spill detector and it triggers or both sensor get trigger for unexplained reasond, I would want to be able to shutdown the pumps. Other than that, everything else can wait, but a spill is really bad.

 

[Matthias Gross]

Mike

as far as I know your both ProfiLux Plus II are linked over RS485.

That means: One SMS unit can access both devices, if they have different addresses.

The SMS module is able to communicate with several ProfiLux computers!

 

[Matthias Gross]

Kidney,
I personally would ask my neighbour to look after my tank if there was happening something strange and not trust that an action invoked by a cell phone will solve my problems ...

The firmware in the SMS module can be upgraded through the customers.
First we will release now a reliable version with the important and necessary features. If the experiences in the field show that some additional features make sense we will implement them.

 

[kidney514]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13530435#post13530435 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Matthias Gross
Kidney,
I personally would ask my neighbour to look after my tank if there was happening something strange and not trust that an action invoked by a cell phone will solve my problems ...

The firmware in the SMS module can be upgraded through the customers.
First we will release now a reliable version with the important and necessary features. If the experiences in the field show that some additional features make sense we will implement them.

I feel same about that, the only reason I said the pumps, is that mine is a 6000gph, and by them time I would get in touch with the neighbour, it will be empty! I always knew that the SMS device was a unidirectional informative unit, and not a control device. But anyways, like I said, it would be the only thing I would have liked to do with SMS, but I guess one can achieve that with programable logic instead......

 

[MSHUR]

Thanks Matthias, thats good to know...