At Etanian, we help organizations to fulfill their strategic visions by offering the best-in-class data acquisition, communication, information and visualization technologies to transform their day to day operations.
We specialize in providing products, solutions and consultancy in remote and local data acquisition.
We distribute a number of award-winning and trail-blazing products from a number of world-leading organisations.
The telemetry solutions that we offer are unique in many ways, utilising many diverse yet complimentary off-the-shelf technologies that can be dovetailed to meet customers’ requirements rapidly and reliably at very low cost.
The combination of impartial advice and advanced solutions based on the latest proven technology allows us to bridge the gap between business and technology.
Data acquisition
For data acquisition, we distribute a variety of controllers from a number of manufacturers. This ranges from the fastest PLC to the most compact all-in-one controller with touch screen, on-board I/O, fieldbus interface and visualisation software. For simple applications, we also offer low cost controllers with or without embedded modem.
Communication
The communication products that we distribute are designed to help our customers managing their machines directly or indirectly over the Internet.
eDevice is the leading provider of low-cost modems and middleware that enables users to monitor any type of electronic equipment directly via the Internet. The remote devices can be reached via PSTN, GSM/GPRS or LAN. Each modem has full RFC compliant TCP/IP stack with FTP client for file transfers, POP3 & SMTP for mail, TCP socket access, FAT, embedded macro language. Moreover, the eDevice Embedded Web Server with dynamic HTML markup language makes it possible to remotely administer and control any equipment using a standard Internet browser.
Thanks to their usability and user-friendliness, eDevice solutions put harnessing the power of the Internet within the reach of all designers of new products or complete M2M solutions.
For systems where low operating costs is a main consideration, we also offer radio modems from Piciorgros and eDevice as alternatives to PSTN or GSM/GPRS.
Our system supports over 250 different serial or IP connection types (from standard all the way to proprietary protocols). Most drivers will connect to the third-party products directly; others require off-the-shelf PC cards to meet specific interface requirements.
The ability to act as gateway (slave) to higher-level systems is also an important factor if our system to be an integral part of an existing system. The protocols currently supported are SNMP Server, SQL-Online, OPC Server, Modbus RTU Slave, Open Modbus TCP, DNP3 and DEC-TCP.
Information
In any mission-critical system, one of the most important features is the ease and speed that users can assimilate the information gathered via the communications infrastructure. It is therefore of no coincident that our data acquisition system is event-driven so that critical alarms are notified to the users with minimal delay. Furthermore, the alarms can be classified and grouped together so that different priority and graphical representation can be assigned to each alarm element.
Furthermore, our software suite includes archiving, message control, performance analysis, maintenance manager and report generation to help users to administer more efficiently the information gathered by the Central Server in real-time, or via log upload from the Controller.
When it comes to connection to SQL-Data bases, ERP management systems, energy optimisation systems or PPS systems, our system is product-independent. From here all common database systems (such as Oracle, MS-SQL Server, DB2, Informix etc.) can be connected through standardized interfaces (ODBC/OLE DB). This means standard products such as SAP® are easily and quickly integrated. A database interface is engineered by a few mouse clicks. All necessary connections and even the charts in the SQL-database are automatically created.
For SAP/R3 we additionally offer a tailor-made high-performance interface.
Visualisation
Our system is based on Copa Data’s zenon HMI/SCADA software to provide the visualisation of plants, network and machineries installed in a factory, roadside kiosks or works.
There is a variety of dynamic and vector elements to choose from. Dynamic elements allow for variables to be displayed: from simple numerical values to bar graphs, indicating instruments, etc. Standard graphics such as bitmap, jpg and gif files can be integrated as easily as audio, video and HTML files. During runtime zenon can even be used as a fully- fledged web browser or for controlling surveillance cameras. The import of vector graphic files such as Auto CAD® or Windows Meta Files (.wmf) opens up very interesting possibilities. These files can be imported not only statically but can also be edited and even animated.
Furthermore, all kinds of ActiveX elements can be integrated into the pictures trouble-free.
For an optimal overview the zenon Editor also supports engineering in layers. Profiles save the screen layout of the specific views which can be called up at any time by the click of a button. This way, only those functions which are truly needed are offered to the user, and the user works with his preferred screen layout.
Recently, zenon has been integrated with Eplan’s Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) software. This enables Eplan users to automatically engineer the control and visualisation parts of the system without highly specialised engineers. During the design process, engineers can directly access zenon from the Eplan platform. Similarly, the Eplan viewer or indeed the full Eplan suite can be accessed directly from zenon during runtime to track alarms and debug systems. This powerful exchange of data between the two systems improves workflow from design to maintenance and makes automatic engineering possible.
The zenon HMI software also runs on Touch panels, PDAs or mobile phones that support Mircosoft’s Windows CE, Pocket PC or Mobile Edition operating system. We distribute Touch panels made by Vipa which are supplied with zenon Run Time installed as standard. The Touch panels can be equipped with fieldbus interfaces, embedded PLC and I/O expansion as options.
