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Netshield unveils latest device that offers full IoT enablement
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Netshield South Africa has announced the latest iteration of its NVIROMON , the Netshield NVIROMON-ULTI-1S , an intelligent IoT enabled environmental monitoring and control gateway .
The NVIROMON-ULTI-1S now provides users access to a device that offers full IoT enablement , traditional SNMP manageability , enhanced intelligent features to support monitoring and management of connected devices and sensors within any monitoring and control environment . This enables a customer to merge and migrate from traditional SNMP managed environments to an industrialised IoT environment .
“ This product is an environmental monitoring and control gateway that services today ’ s phenomenon of collaborative sensing and intelligent control , at the point of presence of the installation ,” said Inus Dreckmeyr , CEO at Netshield South Africa . With its small form factor , taking only 1U rack space , it is easy to add into an existing environment .
“ The true benefit of the NVIROMON-ULTI- 1S is that it is enhanced as an intelligent gateway and is able to control local events , send alerts and relay all events – either singularly or simultaneously – through IoT based and / or SNMP protocols to your IoT , cloud or private networked database-based servers , for storage and big data analysis .”
Critically , the new NVIROMON-ULTI-1S boasts , among others , enhanced features in five key areas – environmental monitoring , security , fire systems , air conditioning / HVAC and power systems .
With improved functionality , more capabilities and connectivity for a larger selection of sensors ( up to 150 wired and wireless sensors ), the NVIROMON-ULTI-1S gives full monitoring and control of all your environmental monitoring devices , including environmental conditions such as temperature , humidity , fire and even flooding detection .
Enhanced security can be evidenced in heightened integration with your access control , the system can monitor and control multiple access doors to environments such as server rooms , highly secure sites and buildings . The device identifies users through connected access controllers such as biometrics , keypads and RFID , and the integration of IP cameras enables snapshots and recording of events . All of which can be monitored and actioned remotely , remote control is made possible by referencing localised or remote access databases , identifying if the individual has the clearance required to enter the environment .
Another new feature includes fire system monitoring that can now integrate into third party fire panels , but still maintaining the option of adding optional fire detection sensors and optional solid-state suppression technologies . The fire system monitoring system can send notifications of alerts and events to centralised monitoring stations .
From a power perspective the device can be linked to UPSs , PDUs , generators , rectifiers , monitored surge protection elements and other alternative power systems , to monitor and read the statuses of these devices , once again relaying alerts and events to centralised monitoring stations .
“ In the event of an alarm , or an environmentally triggered event within your datacentre , the system will first establish the user-defined severity ,” added Dreckmeyr . “ This can be set as either critical , major or minor , and react according to the users ’ defined pre-set procedure . Based on the configuration of the system , it can send automated escalating out-of-band messages , such as emails and / or SMS ’ s , directly to your IT teams and then escalate alerts based on the failure of receipt acknowledgements .” •
Inus Dreckmeyr , CEO at Netshield South Africa
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