Overview

Many different types of equipment and devices use dry contact outputs to send alarm signals to remote panels, remote monitoring systems, and building management systems. Communicating the status of these dry contact systems is important in a complex Enterprise network or automation industry to protect the mission critical installations of expensive equipment.

The BitSight8-x20 is the next generation dry contact device from Ravica. The BS8-x20 is based on Ravica's BitSight8 with an advanced 60 dry contact inputs. It comes in a 2U rackmount box. The BS8-x20 gives you complete control of your enterprise infrastructure security.

Architecture

At the core of the BS8-x20 is the BitSight8, which is then married with the 60 dry contact system. This offers support for remote monitoring and management of various external devices. This integrated system enables connection and monitoring of devices like HVAC systems, Security Equipment, UPS, Generators, Industrial Equipment, etc. The BS8-x20 embedded web server makes the addition of these devices easy.

The BS8x-60 comes with 8 full auto sense RJ45 ports for connecting any of our intelligent sensors. An additional 60 2-wire dry contact ports are provided, giving a total of up to 68 dry contact ports. The specially designed 2-wire dry contact ports are easy to use and allow you to make your own dry contact cables quickly and easily.

The BS8-x20 is a completely embedded host and comes with a proprietary Linux-like Operating System. It is equipped with a TCP/IP stack, internal web server, email, and full SNMP functionality. SMS notifications can be sent via a 3rd party email-to-SMS gateway. The BS8-x20 is virtually a 'plug n play' device, and is extremely easy to use and maintain. The installation process is simple. Additional power supplies or batteries are not needed when optional sensors are added.

Intelligent Sensor and Dry contact Integration

The BitSight8-x20 works with every intelligent sensor in the Ravica family. You can connect any of our sensors, in any combination, to monitor temperature, humidity, water leakage, airflow, security, detect AC Power Line Voltage, measure Digital Voltmeter, control relays, and many more. Our sensors include an integrated data collection and graphing package to spot trends in the airflow, temperature, and humidity.

A new feature in the BitSight8-x20 is the integration of a relative humidity and temperature multi sensor module comprising a calibrated digital output. The sensor includes a capacitive polymer sensing element for relative humidity and a bandgap temperature sensor. Both are seamlessly coupled to a 14bit analog to digital converter and a serial interface circuit on the same chip. This results in superior signal quality, a fast response time and insensitivity to external disturbances (EMC). By having both temperature and humidity sensors in a single sensor, the BitSight8-x20 can have up to a maximum of 8 temperature and 8 humidity sensors. This extends the capability of the BitSight8 to maximum of 16 sensing parameters.

Installations

The installation of BS8-x20 is simple and easy; just plug in the device to your network and assign an IP address. Use the IP address to access the web-based interface through your browser. The web-interface gives you the freedom to configure the dry contacts and set alarms, to keep you informed.

Integration with Network Management Systems

The BS8-x20 is fully embedded with SNMP, which means a tightly integrated solution with any of your SNMP based network management systems.