Network Integration

EXTEND YOUR REACH

Buildings 600 miles apart don’t interact with each other. Or do they?

They could! The S4 Group, Inc. can show you how. You can audit critical system capacities and performance.

Key Benefits

By integrating all your facilities into an Enterprise System you can monitor your energy consumption from a central location to enhance your buying power.
S4 Group network solutions can enable you to remotely perform many actions that have historically required you to dispatch someone to a building.
The S4 Group can provide network solutions to monitor Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and benchmark your performance against operational best practices.
The S4 Group can provide network solutions to monitor the quality of services being delivered to remote facilities.

Capabilities

LAN and WAN Network Solution Design, Network Management, Industrial Ethernet, Telecommunications, Directory Services, Service Definition, Network Architecture

S4 represents Obermeier Software’s SNMP-OPC Gateway products worldwide.

Enterprise Integration

The SNMP-OPC Gateway - OPC-SNMP Enterprise Agent (eAgent) provides Johnson Controls Metasys^®. Siemens Apogee^®, or other OPC-based non-IT system, to SNMP manager integration.

S4 can develop network solutions that integrate SNMP manageable infrastructure devices into Iconics Genesis32-based HMI systems (the Johnson Controls, Inc. Metasys^® M-Series Workstations are Genesis32-based).

Web Enabling of Legacy Building Automation Systems (BAS) and Building Management Systems (BMS)

Any Iconics Genesis32-based HMI system can be web-enabled (the Johnson Controls, Inc. Metasys^® M-Series Workstations are Genesis32-based). Our S4 Open product line and turnkey network appliances streamline this process.

Alarm Reporting to Enterprise Management Framework

A typical network solution would be integrating Metasys Alarms and Events to the customer’s enterprise SNMP manager like HP OpenView, IBM Tivoli, CA Unicenter, or Micromuse Netcool.

Infrastructure Monitoring

If your Industrial Automation or HVAC application is dependent on an IT network or industrial Ethernet, and most are, a S4 Group designed and installed network solution could bring the status of critical network components (hubs, switches, routers, etc.) into your Genesis32 HMI.

SNMP Device Integration

We could also enable system operators to send commands to SNMP manageable devices like UPS systems via the HMI.

Legacy Device Integration

Legacy UPS systems, HVAC control systems, power monitoring systems, and many other devices were originally designed as stand alone systems. S4 provides all the services and products necessary to integrate these systems into your HMI and / or your SNMP-based network management system or enterprise management framework.

Custom MIB Development

Manufactures of legacy systems may not have a pre-defined SNMP Management Information Base (MIB) to define the structure and content of SNMP Traps supporting their devices. S4 can develop a custom MIB for you as part of a Legacy Device Integration project.