Plexus Controls is a leading Canadian designer and manufacturer of wireless monitoring and control products including solar and battery powered mesh systems. Plexus offers smart technologies to a variety of commercial and industrial customers at a lower cost of ownership than our competitors. We are redefining remote monitoring and control solutions through new IoT products. Fast Set Up Many of our products include built in sensors or can easily be … Read more
Plexus understands that monitoring and managing your manufacturing processes is key to industrial companies optimising their performance. This type of system can ensure process integrity and allow companies to flag both data and network alarms through email and text messages. The data management system provides a comprehensive and centralized map based system for your remote management needs by securely time and date stamping all data and saving in a local data … Read more
Plexus Controls is pleased to offer low cost wired industrial monitoring solutions to customers that have a high concentration of data points to collect in the same location and typically have power available.. The systems provide companies the opportunity to collect multiple data inputs, and provides data logging with date & time stamping. In addition, the system offers a full graphical interface as well as local and remote alarm notifications … Read more
The Internet of Things (IoT) is becoming a popular topic of conversation in the workplace as it has the potential to impact how we work. But many people don’t know what the Internet of Things encompasses and what it means. What is The Internet of Things? The Internet of Things is a concept of connecting any device with information to the internet and to each other. This can include everything … Read more
For industrial and commercial markets there many technologies available to measure the liquid level in a well, tank or container. These include: Electric tape (manual, top down to surface) Single/multi float switches Capacitance probes Immersed pressure sensor Immersed tube connected to a compressor and pressure sensor Ultrasonic sensor (top down to surface) Laser sensor (top down to surface) Weight (gravimetric level measurement) The best choice for a particular application depends … Read more
Monitoring systems are designed to control and manage equipment at facilities that often have multiple machines and processes. . These systems can help companies automate processes, while managing data from sensors to help with efficiency and overall safety. Monitoring systems can provide employees with notifications for a variety of things, including when something is about to or has gone wrong. The systems can help companies identify and resolve issues before … Read more
Sensor systems are designed to monitor and control a variety of large facilities and versions of machinery used in manufacturing plants and factories. These systems can automate activities and manage data from sensors to imporve machine safety, efficiency and effectiveness. As the number and complexity of these systems increase a key part is to enable automatic alarms and notifications. This reduces the staff needed to run processes and operate the … Read more
With the growing markets and hype around the Internet of Things (IoT) a number of companies have brought out wireless modular products to meet the demand for telemetry networks. With no clear standards or leaders, these companies have tried to design the winning technology and most universal platform that system companies will adopt and use to build their next generation IoT wireless monitoring systems. Some designs started from scratch (eg … Read more
Graphical user interface (GUI) is a human-computer interface, meaning a way for humans to interact with electronic devices, that uses graphical icons, visual indicators and menus that can be manipulated by a mouse and sometimes keyboard. GUIs were introduced to the market in response to a simplified way to interact with electronic devices, in contrast to the older traditional way , which required commands to by typed on a computer … Read more