Barix IP Control Solutions Form the Nucleus of Critical Systems Monitoring for Oceanic...

Barix IP Control Solutions Form the Nucleus of Critical Systems Monitoring for
Oceanic Time Warner of Hawaii

ZURICH, Switzerland, Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Barix AG, a pioneer in
IP-based audio, intercom, control, and monitoring, today announced that
Oceanic Time Warner, a division of Time Warner Cable serving the Hawaiian
islands, is using Barix Barionet IP control devices to monitor more than 1500
digital and analog signals from critical equipment at 18 locations around
Hawaii.
Oceanic Time Warner offers residential and business services for cable TV,
digital phone, and high-speed and wireless internet access. The Barix
solution allows Oceanic Time Warner to efficiently and reliably monitor the
health of electrical and HVAC equipment at its multiple distribution
facilities from a central location over IP. Oceanic Time Warner engineers
pull various status readings and alarm notifications from critical air-
conditioning, incoming utility line, UPS and back-up generator systems using
multiple Barix Barionet devices connected to a single, wide-area network.
According to Mark Melville, Communications Engineer at Oceanic Time
Warner, business value and technical reliability made the Barionet an ideal
solution to form the signal monitoring nucleus within his new networked
system. Melville also cited the ability of the Barionet to communicate with
both legacy analog and digital systems as highly valuable.
"In 2006, we identified the value in monitoring various points within our
distribution system and to trend these over time. Such data provides a
valuable benchmark and helps predict the health of current operations," said
Melville. "The cost-efficiency of the Barix products and the ease of
integration provided exceptional business value, and technically the Barionet
has proved to be an excellent edge monitoring tool that provides time stamps
for critical events. This helps to place the pieces together following a
system outage."
DataNab, an IP systems programmer and Barix distributor based in
Burnsville, Minnesota, programmed and delivered the system to Oceanic Time
Warner's specifications. The complete Barionet solution interfaces with
InduSoft Web Studio to log and graphically display information from the
monitored points, recall system trends, and generate e-mail alarm
notifications.
All Barix products are inexpensive, low-power devices that are scalable to
the growth of the operation; offer reliability through a PC-FREE design with
no moving parts; and serve as a flexible platform for integration into
virtually any operation requiring audio transport and delivery.
Please visit the Barix website at http://www.barix.com or
http://www.ip-audio.info for more information.
SOURCE Barix AG

Brian Galante, +1-570-425-2315, briang@pipecomm.com, for Barix AG