Integrated Alarm History and SMS Notification using GSM modem

We have posted a beta (pre-release) of TopView 6.5.3

We are inviting current and new users to test the features of this version including:

• SMS notification via GSM modem

• Alarm history integration with the TopView Window and Remote Viewer

If you are interested in trying this beta, please send an email to support@exele.com with the subject "Request to try TopView beta". Please include your name, company, and email address (if different than the sending address)

SMS notification via GSM modem

• Requires a GSM modem with SIM card
• The GSM modem has a phone number and is on a cellular network
• TopView supports both outgoing SMS notification and incoming SMS (alarm acknowledge and tag info query). This is similar to outgoing and incoming email notification in previous versions of TopView.
• Each Contact now contains an SMS number field
• SMS notification has been combined with Email notification in TopView. Therefore, what was called “Email Notification” in previous TopView versions is now “Email-SMS Notification”
• The Email-SMS notification settings screen allows you to configure your email settings and GSM modem settings (see screen shot below)
• The recipients in an Email-SMS notification group (the Default Email-SMS Group and Global Email-SMS Groups) can be email recipients (email address) and SMS recipients (cellular phone number) as long as you have configured both outgoing email and outgoing SMS settings in TopView. TopView will correctly send the notification to each recipient in the group through email or the GSM modem. Combining Email and SMS allows TopView to support both email and SMS channels for a single alarm event.

Email-SMS Notification

Outgoing SMS Settings

Alarm history integration with the TopView Window and Remote Viewer

• The alarm history for each alarm condition is now integrated within the TopView Window and Remote Viewer

• You will see a new tab named “Alarm history” which will allow you to query and filter the alarm history

• If you store the alarm history in SQL Server (new feature in v 6.5.0) you can also add comments for each alarm event

• From the Value and Alarms screen, you can select a monitored point and click the [Show alarm history] button to view the alarm history for the point.

Current Values and Alarms screen

Alarm history screen (all monitored points)