The winding road – Ravica probes used in road construction.

August 26, 2009 by
Filed under: environmental monitoring 

Everyday I find new use for our Ravica Sensor probes!

BusseRoad2-465pxLast week I was working with a road construction company who was just awarded a contract to pave two runways at a local airport. Over all, this was a good size project and it had a few unique compliance requirements.

The company had to make sure that the outside temperature and humidity of the paving units was always below 89 degrees. If the temp went up above 89, an audible alarm and a flashing light would go off.

To be honest with you, I didn’t think we were going to be able to retrofit the paving units to supply this data. I mean, it’s not the most hospitable environment. Reluctantly, I conveyed my feelings to the customer. To my surprise, he informed me that each one of the paving units had a small building that managed the team. Each one of these buildings were fully equipped to handle the SensorProbes!

So, we spent an hour going over the requirements and hashing out the details. In the end, I recommend that they purchase a BitSight2, a Single Port Temperature and Humidity Sensor and  a Siren/ Strobe Light sensor for each 824_Exteriormanagement trailer. Since this is a hostile environment, we decided to go with the weather proof option for the Single Port Temperature and Humidity Sensor.

The compliance specifications required them to store this data for review. I recommended that they use Denika  to store historical data for reporting. With Denika they would be able to trend the temperature and humidity over time. They would also have the ability to set a threshold. In this example, it would be 90 degrees. Once that threshold has been violated, a syslog would be send to Logalot. This would provide all the needed data for the required compliance reports.

With Logalot they would be able to perform multi-level alarms. With this solution, they would be able to trigger the visual alarm and email or page multiple people instantly. In addition to the alerting, they would be able to search and report on the syslog data sent from the probes. I was able to show him how script could be triggered to do just about anything. In this case, we would be playing an audio file over an amplified speaker.

The client liked the solution and said that he would present it to the decision maker. I just heard from them and they are going to go with our solution!

JimmyD

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  • http://www.salespack.com Zach: Construction Equipment Parts

    I don’t have a great deal of knowledge in these types of environmental monitoring systems, but I’m impressed with their use.

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