If you’re looking for data logging, alarm notification,
and status checking in one package, then you need RACO's Catalyst—the
world's first integrated, interactive, remote monitoring system.
The Catalyst offers up-to-date, two-way connectivity with
your critical data via phone, pager, cell phone, e-mail, or
fax.
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Using RACO's Alarmware® software, the Catalyst
provides a number of practical features:
- Data can be captured from the Catalyst, then used with
popular third party data historian products for comprehensive
analysis
- Operations can be monitored remotely
- The configuration can be changed and archived, enabling
quick and easy restoration and replication
- Upgrades can be conveniently performed over the phone
The Catalyst includes a free remote startup assistance program
and offers easy integration with third party products.
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New with Version 1.83? |
Look at what you can
do with the new version of Catalyst:
- Keep critical data at your fingertips with email
reporting that sends you alarm notifications and data
log files
- Access data quickly, easily, and without human
interaction using scheduled log file transfers, log
file name lists, and log file suffix options
- Enhance configuration, programming, and testing
with Alarmware features like offline import, firmware
version display, diagnostic cleardowns, and the availability
of 16 COM ports
- Simplify installations and upgrades with multiple
version support, and startup assistance and configuration
planning
- Improve operations and administration with enhancements
like automatic rearm, destination priority only, high
water only if scheduled, persistent name and number,
and modified keycodes
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Get additional information about Catalyst by visiting our
Web
site. You'll find a system overview, product brochures,
specifications, owner's manuals, and important third party
and order information. The page also provides sample e-mail
reports, fax reports, and data log files.
If you are a current Catalyst user, you can upgrade to the
new version for free! Upgrade
now.
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The flexibility of the Catalyst has enabled
RACO to integrate or install the system in many different
types of applications—most recently for CES-Software
Solutions, Abbott Furnace Company, and the Pike Township Municipal
Authority.
Catalyst uses data integration
software from CES-Software Solutions
CES-Software Solutions, the software development group of
CES-LANDTEC, has developed DataField—data integration
software for the RACO Catalyst system. DataField is a scalable
enterprise solution that collects environmental and operational
data from a wide variety of sources. Designed to let the software
do the work, no alarms are generated unless there is a problem.
DataField continually analyzes data to provide pertinent information
to appropriate parties, using defined trigger values, e-mail
notification, automated compliance reporting, text messaging,
and more. Read
the full story here.
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Catalyst Used to Support Furnace
Manufacturer's Monitoring Service
Abbott Furnace Company, a manufacturer of custom industrial
furnaces located in St. Mary's, PA, is implementing a value-added
preventative maintenance program based on RACO's Catalyst
data logging and alarm notification system. This new service
will provide Abbott's customers with meaningful, accurate
and timely data regarding various operational aspects of the
furnaces they purchase, as well as analysis and recommendations
on preventative and corrective actions. Read
the full story here
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| RACO's Catalyst is being used to monitor
electrical current flow through the heating elements of
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Catalyst Assuring the Safety
and
Availability of Pike Township Water Supply
The Pike Township Municipal Authority recently installed a
RACO Catalyst to monitor various conditions and levels—turbidity,
chlorine, PH, flow, reservoirs and tanks—at their Curwensville,
PA water treatment and distribution facility. As a participant
of the Partnership for Safe Water program, the township completed
the installation as part of an effort to optimize treatment
plant performance and provide safe drinking water. Read
the full story here
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| Chuck Lutes, from Reinbrecht Associates,
is pictured with a single Catalyst unit mounted on a wall
in the control room connected via a Modbus Serial Port
to the Automation Direct-Terminator I/O interface system.
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Customer's report over 95% satisfaction with RACO products
and services. View
the results here of the ongoing 6 year long survey.
RACO has released a white paper offering information that
aids in the process of selecting a communication platform.
The paper, called "Information Delivery for Remote Monitoring
Systems, An Analysis of Communication Platforms," discusses
the advantages and disadvantages of three specific platforms:
landline, cellular wireless, and control channel cellular.
The white paper includes key questions to ask yourself when
making a decision, as well as a background of the remote monitoring
systems market and an overview of each communication platform.
A related section, "Making the Decision," helps
evaluate all the options available, guiding you through a
series of questions you need to ask when choosing a platform,
and then referring you to a comparison chart to analyze each
option according to the application requirement.
To view or download a copy of RACO's white paper, visit the
Applications
page or fill out our Information
Request Form.
- Expansion of product line with the introduction of AlarmAgent.com
- Product line for OEM's
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