TUBES Guided Tour

If you connect the TUBES control computer to your facility's local area network (LAN), you can take advantage of several additional features that are a standard part of TUBES:

• Web View - A web browser interface lets end-users view tube system status, track carrier deliveries, and view instruction manuals. Using a password, maintenance staff can view alarm details and initiate remote control.
   
• Remote Control - Secure remote control of the tube system from other computers on your network lets maintenance staff investigate and clear alarms from more convenient workstations, rather than having travel to the tube system computer for each alarm.
   
• Status Monitor - A small application can be run on selected Windows-based computers on your network to provide pop-up notification of Tube system problems. This application could be used at the maintenance dispatcher's desk, for example.
   
• Text Paging - The tube system can send text pager notifications of system alarms, problem resolutions and other significant events.
   
• Data Bridging - Physically-remote sections of the tube system can be connected to the tube system control computer via network-based bridging of the tube system's data cabling. This lets you leverage your network infrastructure to avoid excessively long serial data cable runs, as, for example, between buildings.

These software capabilities are standard, and any or all of them can be used at your option.

The following screen-shot shows how a user can check the status of the tube system from any web browser at your facility. You can also see how text paging can instantly alert maintenance staff to problems