Sites

•RadioLog operated on a single site, connecting to a single type of data collection device - SR2s or CR2s.

•Synergy systems, however, can have multiple distributed sites and allow the connection of multiple distributed data collection devices - SR2s, CR2s or CR3s.

 

Control Device Groups

•A Control Device Group is a named collection of one or more Control Devices and associated sensors and effectively replaces the NetID Numbers used in RadioLog.

•A Control Device Group defines the polling interval for Control Devices in the Group.

•CR2 and CR3 devices each have their own Control Device Group; whereas multiple SR2s can be used in a single group.

•Where a system uses multiple sensor frequencies, sensor PIDs can be duplicated/shared between different frequencies but the sensors on each frequency will need to be allocated to separate Control Device Groups.

•Within a Control Device Group, all sensors and Control Devices must operate on the same frequency.

•This only applies to multiple SR2s as single CR2 and CR3 Control Devices, and their associated sensors, in their own Control Device Group (see above) will only operate on a single frequency.

i.e: Groups of sensors and SR2s on the same frequency can be in one or more Control Device Groups; but a single Control Device Group must not contain SR2s and sensors on more than one frequency.

 

Physical Identifier (PID)

PID numbers replace the TxID numbers that were historically used in RadioLog.

All sensors associated with a Control Device Group must have a unique PID in the range 1 to 254; i.e. there can only be 254 sensors in a Control Device Group.

Historically, RadioLog used separate Net IDs to segregate between different radio frequencies. These segregated the transmitters, using a multiplier of 256 added to the Senor ID. The actual ID number programmed into the Sensor would then be the modulus 256 number of the Net ID number and the 256 multiplier would set the SR2 Net ID.

As a result:

•Sensors 1, 2,… 254 would be associated with SR2s in Net 0; Sensors 257, 258,… 510 would be associated with SR2s in Net 1.

•Sensors 1 and 257 would both be programmed with ID 1; Sensors 2 and 268 would both be programmed with ID 2 and so on.

Unfortunately, the RadioLog Net ID system proved to be confusing.
Some customers thought that the whole Net ID number was programmed into the Sensor and used this misapprehension to add more Sensors on to their systems using a single frequency on multiple SR2s with different Net IDs. This caused those customers major issues because the Sensor data would interlace, e.g. data from Sensors 44 and 300, both programmed with an actual ID of 44, would become mixed in RadioLog because radio signals from both sensors could be collected by SR2s in either Net ID and assigned by RadioLog to the other Sensor's data.

Synergy uses named Control Device Groups with Sensor PIDs of 1 to 254 to prevent this issue.

 

Single Channel Linear Sensor

In RadioLog, the second channel of a Dual Channel Linear Sensor could be removed by deleting the second channel Title field entry in the Calibration Data.

In Synergy, this is replaced by the provision of a Single Channel Linear Sensor.

If RadioLog data is imported with existing sensors that have had their second channel Title field deleted, these sensors will automatically be converted to Single Channel Linear Sensors.

•The Single Channel Linear Sensor has a RadioLog Sensor Type of 14, so 14 will no longer be used for any future sensor designs.

 

Email Alerts

Synergy enables Users to use Password Authenticated Logins to the Customer’s SMTP Server.

•During import of RadioLog data with an Email configuration, the User is asked to provide a Username and Password for Authenticated Login to the SMTP Server.

 

SMS Alerts

Synergy SMS Alert messages contain considerably more data than the equivalent RadioLog SMS-Alarms, exceeding the character limit for a single SMS message and, as such, are a concatenation of two messages.

•RadioLog assigns SMS active days and times to each recipient; in Synergy the SMS Alert Group is responsible for this functionality.

 

Email / SMS System Alerts

RadioLog has a number of System Alarm options.

Synergy currently has System Start up, (includes previous System Shutdown information) and Activity Log entries such as Login Fail, and Edit.

 

Sites and Zones

Synergy introduces the concept of Sites.

•Sites can have Sensors grouped together into Zones. Zones replace the RadioLog Grid system.