LonWorks, BACnet,
and Modbus
for Building Automation

i.CanDoIt® Take a Guided Tour

Closing the loop.

LogMyData.Com is a Device ISP resource created to support the Internet connectivity of “things”. The majority of the ISP’s currently in existence are geared for people surfing sites like eBay and Google. Machine to machine communication for remote monitoring is typically limited to private intranets and specialized applications. The goal of LogMyData.Com is to bring broader access to the Internet connectivity of "things".

The mission of LogMyData.Com is to bring together Device ISP resources that provide connectivity allowing users with basic web browser skills to monitor remote equipment. When we say equipment, we mean sensors and actuators, pumps and motors, current loops and dry contacts. We do not mean monitor your web server or CPU usage like so many of the “remote monitoring services”. We monitor things put together with nuts and bolts, things that make noise, and things with horsepower.

LogMyData.Com is a division of Control Solutions, created to support the Device ISP requirements for monitoring “things” via the Internet. Control Solutions' product line includes Internet enabled embedded monitoring and control products. Much of the time, these products are used in private intranets. This means our customer has built their own specialized server. We asked ourselves, "How does one go about remote monitoring when you don't have an IT department with the resources to build a custom server?"

Our vision is that signing up for a remote monitoring ISP account should be no more difficult than signing up for an eBay account. LogMyData.Com is working with various resources to realize this vision.

• Interconnecting the real world
• Connecting the real world to your enterprise system
• Real time, real world control with open system architecture

Control Solutions has thrived on opportunities to expand, enhance, and support mainstream products and systems. As a result, you can find a little bit of our equipment connected to a lot of other people's equipment, in a lot of different places, doing a lot of different things.

Control Solutions is customer driven. When customers talk, we listen. We have been providing LonWorks products since 1995. And while customers who prefer LonWorks like our LonWorks products, others have asked, "Where's BACnet?" We listened, and in 2007 we introduced our BACnet products. We are also strengthening our support of Modbus as a primary building automation protocol.

Another question often asked by our customers was "Is it programmable?" Our newest products are all "freely" programmable by the user, with more field programming options on the horizon.

Control Solutions, Inc., a Minnesota corporation founded in 1995, offers a line of control products tailored to facility management, building automation, telecommunications, and remote monitoring & control. We offer low-cost fixed configuration monitoring and control products as well as expandable modular systems. Our controllers can operate stand-alone, but are optimized for distributed control via networks including Ethernet, LonWorks, BACnet and Modbus. Our most popular LonWorks products are I/O add-on devices for larger controllers.

Our embedded Internet products use SNMP and Modbus/TCP or BACnet IP over Ethernet for M2M (machine to machine) communications. Our gateways can put LonWorks, Modbus, or BACnet devices on a LonWorks, Modbus, BACnet, or Internet network.

Our web based i.CanDoIt® software offers enhanced flexibility and feature packed power for remote monitoring applications. The built-in web pages are used to configure the device. The integrator can add an optional user HTML wrapper to persionalize the web interface. Capabilities include time/date scheduling and data logging with optional email delivery of data logs. Email event notifications are available. The i.CanDoIt® products are user programmable.

Our LonWorks® products include single board multi-point I/O nodes and modular, expandable I/O nodes. Our standard software packages offer basic LonWorks I/O functionality. The enhanced software provided in the AddMe II also includes alarm capability.

Our LonWorks® products can be custom programmed using Echelon development tools such as the NodeBuilder®. We provide example driver source code for customers who want to do their own application programming. We also offer custom programming services.

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