Cloud SensDesk

Features

Features

• Dashboard: Single webpage with readings from all sensors.
• Alarms: Sends an e-mail alert or a text message upon sensor malfunction / value out of its safe range.
• SensDesk Mobile: Status overview in a mobile phone app for iPhone and Android.
• Simple configuration: HW group products can be connected to the portal with a single click.
• Both the portal and the mobile app are provided free of charge, no monthly fees.
• Up to 10 devices (IP addresses / SIM cards) can be connected to a single account.
• There is no limit to the number of sensors per account.
• Sensors data history is kept for 3 months.
• Device or link failure notification (Heartbeat) for each device.
• No installation, GSM and LAN sensors can be connected to the portal with a single click.
• Sensors can be displayed on a map and filtered by location.
• Detailed remote configuration of GSM devices (Ares family).
• Charts of values for a specified period.
• Only HW group products that support the HWg-Push protocol can be connected.
• Fast response – sensor readings are updated every 15 minutes, or within 30 seconds if the reading changes (configurable).
• Portal outputs can be connected to other systems (M2M solution, IoT platform).

Monitored events

• Sensor value – value out of the specified safe range
• Sensor disconnected – device is accessible but the monitored sensor is disconnected
• Device disconnected – device is not available in SensDesk.com for more than 30 minutes

Supported devices (LAN and GSM sensors)

• Ares 12: GSM/GPRS thermometer with text messages and E-mail
• Ares 14: Remote sensor monitoring over GSM (GPRS)
• HWg-STE plus: Web thermometer with two digital inputs for dry contacts
• HWg-WLD: Water flood detection in a 2D area
• HWg-PWR 3/12/25: Smart M-Bus gateway for energy consumption monitoring
• Poseidon2 3266: Remote sensor monitoring over LAN
• Poseidon2 3268: Ethernet I/O control and sensor monitoring system
• Poseidon2 3468: IP thermostat with 230V/16A-rated relay outputs
• Poseidon2 4002: Data center environment monitoring
• HWg-SMS-GW2: GSM gateway for sending SMS alarms from other products

Typical applications

Typical applications

• Air-conditioning monitoring: Monitoring air-conditioning units for IT equipment
• Remote environment monitoring in IT: Power supply status, UPS, temperature and humidity monitoring, access control
• Remote monitoring of technology / machinery: Status overview for all machinery and related equipment
• Construction technology: Remote monitoring of concrete hardening, wood drying or other processes
• Energy: Remote monitoring of diesel-generator status over GSM / energy consumption monitoring at multiple sites
• Medicine: Temperature monitoring in refrigerators

Downloads

Downloads

Product leaflet

Portal user interface

Usage examples

Usage examples

Monitoring the air-conditioning at two customers' premises

• An external IT consultant administers three server rooms for two different customers.
• One customer uses their own SNMP monitoring.
• The IT consultant created a SensDesk.com account, and thanks to the mobile app, always has an overview of the environment conditions (temperature, power, UPS, smoke and water detection) at each server room.
• Alarms alert to:
  • Failure of any air-conditioning unit
  • Power failure anywhere
  • Communication failure lasting longer than 30 minutes, anywhere

Temperature monitoring in refrigerators

• A dentist is responsible for proper storage of medicaments at two locations.
• The medicaments must be stored at the specified temperature range.
• In one location, a HWg-STE is connected to the LAN via a Wi-Fi bridge because it was cheaper to use a wireless network than to connect a cable to a distant refrigerator with medicaments.
• The other location does not have an Internet connection; therefore, a HWg-Ares12 GSM thermometer with a SIM card and a data plan is used.
• Temperature graphs are printed from the SensDesk.com portal and submitted to the regulatory authority.

Concrete hardening

• A construction company sometimes uses an Ares-12 unit with a temperature and humidity sensor.
• After pouring concrete, it is necessary to wait a few days until the concrete hardens.
• The hardening time varies widely, and with a GSM sensor connected to the SensDesk.com portal, the overall construction time can be shortened by several days.
• The responsible person can check the current relative humidity at any time using a smartphone with the SensDesk Mobile app.
• A chart of the hardening process can be displayed at the portal website.
• As soon as the target humidity is reached, the responsible person is notified by a text message.
• Other works can then immediately start.

Mobile

SensDesk Mobile for iPhone & Android

User account status can be monitored with the SensDesk Mobile app.

• The app remembers your username and password.
• With a single click, you can see an overview of sensors in Alarm state.
• Sensor list can be ordered by device or sensor name.
• Displayed sensors can be filtered by device group.

Response

Fast response to changes

Values are normally uploaded to the portal every 15 minutes.

However, when "Autopush config" is set for a particular sensor, SensDesk portal will be notified about changes in a few seconds.

• Digital Inputs (Dry Contacts)

When "Autopush" is checked, the device connects to the portal whenever the contact state (open/closed) changes.

• Sensors

For each individual sensor, set the value of a change that will cause the update to be sent to the portal. 0 = AutoPush is off.

Each sensor is configured in the same units that it displays.
For example, we recommend to use at least 5% for humidity (AutoPush = 5).
For temperature, use about 2°C (AutoPush = 2).