- Creates a single archive data from Probe Point values transferred to an FTP server
- Accommodate data files from multiple loggers
- Single file allows for easy data analysis, enterprise wide data base usage, Web presentation of data
- Two methods for activation: Continuous Run or Event Initiated
- Data Filtering selection for precise control over data archived
- Heartbeat feature for proof of operation
M2M Probe Sweep (MPS) is a Windows application which generates a single archive data file from FTP files originating from one or more remote Logic Beach IntelliLogger™ data logging systems. The resulting archive ‘Destination File’ is of CSV format and can be accessed using Excel or more powerful database applications for statistical data collection, remote equipment performance monitoring, custody transfer and other long term data collection needs.
MPS is an ideal way to collect data from a multitude of IntelliLoggers and consolidate that data into a single archive data file, which may be used for Enterprise-wide web pages, alarming and on-going data archiving.
Detailed System Operational Overview
In typical operation, one or more IntelliLogger's will periodically, based upon event or time, FTP the most recent Probe Point readings to a PC running an FTP Server. These FTP files will be received by the FTP server and saved to PC disk. M2M Probe Sweep will then launch or activate and extract the user defined data from the recently received FTP file(s) and append it to a continually growing CSV ‘Destination File’.
M2M Probe Sweep can be run in two different modes of operation:
- Continuous Run; M2M Probe Sweep runs continually and periodically checks for new FTP files with follow-on processing of the data.
- Event Initiated; M2M Probe Sweep is launched via a ‘command line’ action by the FTP Server, or other applications, when the Server receives a new FTP file.
M2M Probe Sweep runs on a stand-alone Win 2000 or XP PC which also has an FTP Server
installed and a network connection.
Operation may be best explained by example of a typical operating sequence.
IntelliLogger(s) source Data via FTP
One or more remotely located IntelliLoggers run autonomously, executing a Program Net that includes a period (time based) or event triggered FTP of the “Most Recent
Probe Points” values to a PC running an FTP Server.
These “Most Recent Probe Points” are the chronologically last Probe Point readings sampled by the IntelliLogger during its Program Net execution. Upon an event (e.g. periodic time trigger, alarm, etc) at the IntelliLogger location, a data file containing the most recent readings will be FTP’d to the FTP Server and be written to
the “Incoming FTP Folder” shared by all of the IntelliLogger’s.
M2M Probe Sweep action
M2M Probe Sweep can be configured to periodically scan for new FTP files based on
time or upon receipt of an Event Notification from an FTP Server. Either way, upon activation, it will examine the Incoming FTP folder for new files.
If a new file(s) is detected, M2M Probe Sweep will open the FTP file and extract the data matching the M2M Probe Sweep ‘Filtering’ criteria which specifies the desired Probe Point data to extract and archive. The filtered and extracted data will then be appended into a new row of the Destination CSV file and the Destination file will be closed/saved.
Use of the Filter function provides control over exactly what Probe Point data is added to the Destination File. If multiple files are identified in the Incoming FTP folder when M2M Probe Sweep runs, the oldest file (based on the file date/time i.e. not the date/time appended to the filename) will be processed first.
After successfully appending the data to the Destination file, M2M Probe Sweep will
either delete the FTP file or move it to an FTP Archive folder (a user setting within M2M Probe Sweep specifies Move or Delete and the Archive folder path) so that only
unprocessed FTP files remain in the Incoming FTP Data folder. Any remaining files will then be similarly processed… oldest file first. M2M Probe Sweep operation continues in concert with the FTP Server indefinitely or until ‘Sweeping’ is stopped by user intervention.
