- Compatible with all SPARTON and TX Technologies monitoring units
- Windows NT / 2000 and touch-screen CTI interfaces
- Integrated datafeed to management systems
- Monitoring unit and transducer management
- Centralized network-wide Oracle database
- Dynamic user configurable thresholding
- Customizable user screens and reports
- Fully automated data backups of MUs
- Internal dispatch management tools
- Integrated map-based leak location
- Full LAN communication capability
- User customizable alarm filtering
- GUI point and click interface
A comprehensive view of your entire air pressure network
CAPS not only monitors network health, but also provides effective air pressure dispatching tools, offering comprehensive and fully integrated air pressure dispatching solutions. Informed air pressure dispatch decisions can be made based on automatically generated trouble lists that prioritize troubles across geographic areas. Centralized dispatching helps avoid double dispatches and saves money. Air pressure data collected after the dispatch provides accurate measures of technician efficiency and time tracking. Dispatching functionality in CAPS can include a system interface to your work manager.
The CAPS graphical air pressure network map uses outside plant GPS data to give field technicians an easy visual reference to trouble locations. The CAPS system provides two different user interfaces: a fully featured interface used by client machines on the company LAN, and a Craft Terminal Interface (CTI) that gives the field technician remote access to the system.
Through the CTI graphical interface, Craft can collect data and do analysis on alarms to create work packages for dispatch. Field technicians can either self-dispatch or pick up dispatches from the maintenance center.
Communication with field monitoring units (MUs) is via either modem or via the corporate LAN. Although alarms are sent directly from the MU to the server, CAPS periodically polls each monitoring unit, ensuring that all alarms have been received. CAPS immediately analyzes incoming alarms against user-defined thresholds. Extraneous alarms are filtered by checking the opening/ closing log (OCL) for maintenance, construction, or other work-related sheath openings. Further analysis of CAPS data can be done by the LoopExpert System (LES). Alarm reports are delivered to field technicians based on the alarm severity and the technician's pre-defined reporting criteria.
Reliable data is assured because CAPS proactively tests all MUs to verify that MUs are functioning properly and that their configurations are correctly set. Automatic remote backups of MU memory and configuration information on the CAPS server greatly reduce administrative resources.
CAPS communicates with any vendor MU using a common interface, simplifying management of a heterogeneous environment. As the size and scope of pressurized networks increase, so does the need for a scalable system to manage and maintain these facilities. When each central office monitors its own piece of the network, no comprehensive system-wide picture is formed, and organized network maintenance is impossible. With CAPS, a centralized server communicates directly with all MUs in the field, providing analysts with immediate feedback on current conditions across the entire air pressure network.
