MX 7 SMS Gateway Event with flash possible?

[Anthony Brown]

Here's the deal. I work for a wind turbine company and I have setup a flash
app that shows the wind site with spinning turbines layed out. This updates
every minute with current information example: windspeed of each turbine,
nacelle direction, error code etc.....

Looking at the new event gateways with MX 7 is it possible to have my flash
app "monitor" these turbines and when one generates an error code, could it
be sent through sms gateway to notify a person? I assume that you can use
it for something like this.

Just curious.

[Anthony Brown]

Would it be better to setup a cfschedule event for something like this? Or
would that be too taxing for the server to do every few minutes?



"Anthony Brown" <anthony@kermy.com> wrote in message
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> Here's the deal. I work for a wind turbine company and I have setup a
> flash app that shows the wind site with spinning turbines layed out. This
> updates every minute with current information example: windspeed of each
> turbine, nacelle direction, error code etc.....
>
> Looking at the new event gateways with MX 7 is it possible to have my
> flash app "monitor" these turbines and when one generates an error code,
> could it be sent through sms gateway to notify a person? I assume that
> you can use it for something like this.
>
> Just curious.
>

[PaulH]

wow! that's an interesting app. if you already have some way to "talk" to the
remote devices (which i would think was the real hard part) then i guess it
would be relatively simple enough to have some gateway code that takes the
incoming data, looks for problems and then sends an SMS. you'd have to setup an
account w/an SMS provider, etc. (there should be postings from damon cooper in
the gateway forums that will give you some ideas on how to do this).

[Anthony Brown]

Here's an example of the app. This is for a water district in Palmdale Ca.
I have yet to release a "public" version of our full wind site app that has
56 or so turbines on it.

Basically if the status code is other than 0 then there is a problem with
turbine. That is where I would like to SMS someone with the info, and even
maybe give them the ability to reset the turbine from there cell phone. We
will see though.

[url]http://www.pwdturbine.com[/url]




"PaulH" <paul@sustainablegis.com> wrote in message
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> wow! that's an interesting app. if you already have some way to "talk" to
> the
> remote devices (which i would think was the real hard part) then i guess
> it
> would be relatively simple enough to have some gateway code that takes the
> incoming data, looks for problems and then sends an SMS. you'd have to
> setup an
> account w/an SMS provider, etc. (there should be postings from damon
> cooper in
> the gateway forums that will give you some ideas on how to do this).
>
>
>
>

[PaulH]

how are you accumulating the data from the turbine? is it phoning the data in?
or is something talking on a tcp port? or just dumping a file in a dir? any one
of these could trigger a gateway event where you examine the status code & send
the SMS (as you probably already know mx 7 makes this trivial) if required.

btw i used to run the info center for an environmental think tank here in
thailand,
[url]http://www.pcd.go.th/AirQuality/Bangkok/Graph/QueryGraph.cfm?task=default[/url] was
one of the sites we helped build (it's been completely re-skinned 1/2 dozen
times but the plumbing hasn't change).