The Netsense gateway solution incorporates the probe monitoring with wide area networking capability. The G2 gets a new release Wifi interface to enable WLAN connectivity without the requirement to cable a remote site. This enables the Netsense solution to become an integral part of a remote ICT requirement in industries such as mining, exploration, telecommunications, trasnport and any other business with isolated data aquisition or remote control requirements.

 

NetSenses smart fleet managment software provides a fully managed and monitored overlay to ensure all sites and gateways are operating as expected 24/7.

 

NetSense G2 gateway features:

 

WLAN 802.11N radio interface

3G WWAN quad band WCDMA

Dual Fast Ethernet interfaces

GPS interface

Multi USB,Serial interfaces

Power relay interface

Optional interfaces including serial bus, RFID, Low frequency radio

Onboard battery backup (upto 2 hour operation)

GRE tunneling

Network address translation

IP Firewall

Routeing

Telemetry monitoring/data aquisition and relay

Remote access and control software

Central managment and monitoring suite

 

 

 

Not only does the solution offer the following functions: 

The G2’s also offer Asset management capability:

  

RFID wireless interface, monitoring and recording – this could be very useful to your business for asset management and conforming to ITIL best practice. Each asset or managed device distributed to customer sites or in the stores is tagged with a passive RFID (each tag cost a few cents). The G2 probes can be placed on site, in cabinets and read the RFID’s in the comms room cabinet, or nearby to placement. This information is in turn uploaded to the central monitoring system and CMDB. Devices do not need to be connected to the network or even turned on to be able to track where the assets are or aren’t, all in real time.

  

This means that if a router is swapped out or returned to store – as long as it is tagged and close to a probe it will be registered in the database systems with location and reference ID, and thus all warranty and support records are automatically up to date at all times. No need to make sure the network management is setup, or manually doing swap out key entry, updating records etc.

  

Possible components:

  

  

Although it might not be viable to install probes in customer sites just for asset management RFID, it would make sense if all or some of the functions combined were implemented as a multi function solution. For example: combining network/environment monitoring, remote access, and asset management into one solution onsite can lead to reduced cost, value add and system efficiency. Remember this is separate from the network services, NetSense is completely self reliant and does not require the main network service to be present for it to operate and perform its functions.

  

NetSense G2 offers efficiency in the following processes:

  

The NetSense solutions are one of the first network and site monitorining solutions that can be offered as a cloud based service. This is because NetSense Probe and G2 Terminator fleet and administration applications can be run from the cloud. Providers can offer customers the remote site management and monitoring functions as a service without the requirement of servers or admin resource, logging servers, applications on customer networks or data centers. Customers simply add a NetSense device to each of their remote sites and recieve all valuable information and applications via the cloud and through managed web applications.