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PressureMAP Version 28 Enhancements

This web page describes the important features and enhancements that will be available in PressureMAP Version 28, scheduled for release in early 2011. Some of the items listed provide new program functionality, while others are refinements of existing features. One of the noteworthy changes implemented in Version 28 is the discontinuation of program development on the SCO UNIX OS platform. Beginning with PressureMAP Version 28, all current and future development of the PressureMAP and PressureWEB applications will be done using the Linux operating system. This OS environment change brings greater flexibility and programming options for PressureMAP program development.

For reference, the information below provides a summary of the important features that were added to PressureMAP in Version 28. In addition to these features, a number of minor modifications and performance enhancements have been included to help the system perform optimally.

PressureMAP Version 28

  • Printing PressureMAP Reports to an Email Address
    PressureMAP Version 28 offers the ability to "print" reports to an email destination(s) using the PressureMAP Browser interface. (Please note that the browser capability first needs to be enabled by System Studies' Technical Support personnel.) Previously, reports could only be printed to the PressureMAP console's screen, to a dedicated printer, or to one or more of the configured network printers. This new capability makes it possible to easily distribute important report information via email, where it can be viewed, saved and printed by the recipient.
  • Full Office List Capacity for Alarm/Report Centers
    The way the "ALL" keyword works when defining an office list for Report and Alarm Centers has been modified to permit all of the offices on a system to report to a specific Alarm or Report Center. Before, if you entered ALL in the Offices data field, the office list associated with the center would include the first 72 offices in the system, plus Office O (System). In Version 28 entering All will now add all of the offices in the system (up to 250, plus Office 0, System) to the office list.
  • Expanded PressureWEB Realtime Reading Capability
    Prior to Version 28 PressureWEB could only obtain realtime device readings from System Studies 289H/H-M LSS and uM260 Micro Monitors. PressureWEB is now able to obtain realtime device information from the following additional monitor types: System Studies Dial-a-Ducers, Chatlos L2, Chatlos L3, Teleducer 50 (L3), Hercules 740, Hercules 940, PVD 800, Sparton 5300B, Sparton 5318, and Sparton V5.
  • Menu Option to Reset 289 Phone Tables
    When a 289H LSS monitor is moved to a new PressureMAP system, the associated Phone table for the office retains the old alert phone number information in addition to the new, updated information. This results in repeated communications errors for the office until the discrepancy can be corrected by System Studies' Technical Support personnel. A new User Initiated Operations Menu option has been added to the program in Version 28 to allow the user to manually reset the Phone number table when needed.
  • Menu Option to Reset Digi PortServer
    The Linux operating system makes it possible in Version 28 for users with Network Administration privileges to remotely reset a Digi PortServer. This procedure is helpful, for example, if a PortServer is powered up and working, but one or more of the modems connected to it are inoperative. Selecting the reset option will generally re-establish modem communications without having to make a visit to the modem site.
  • Forcing User Password Change
    Option #6 of PressureMAP's User Management Screen allows the System Administrator to force an individual or all users to change their password the next time they log into the PressureMAP system. This capability streamlines the task of assigning new user logins when security issues, or other requirements, dictate.
  • Addition of Wire Center Field in Office Information Screen
    The Wire Center designation, plus the Office name, will be displayed on separate lines of the Full Report Alarm format IF the feature is enabled in the Dispatch Report Format Screen. This information is valuable to companies who use propriety software to perform alarm distribution and wish to see the associated Wire Center/Office information more clearly displayed within the body of the report.
  • Alarm Delivery Notification
    PressureMAP Version 28 provides users with the ability to choose whether or not an alarm will be sent to centers in subsequent calling time slots once it has been delivered successfully to all of the centers defined for the originating calling time period. By default, PressureMAP will stop alarm distribution if the original alarm delivery to all centers was successful. The user can request System Studies to change the default alarm distribution status, however. If so, alarm centers in later calling time slots will see the keyword SENT displayed on the alarm's status line. Also, two new notations, DELIVERED ALL CENTERS and CLR DELIVERED ALL CENTERS, have been added to Dispatch History reports to indicate the successful delivery of alarms and cleared alarms to all centers in the applicable call time slot(s).
  • Device Reading Source Identification
    PressureMAP now displays a four-letter indication of the source of a current device reading in the Dispatch Histories Display. One of five possible originating conditions will be listed in the Level data field after the star designation). The possibilities include: CALL (reading obtained from a scheduled call to the monitor), REAL (realtime reading), ALRT (reading received from an CPAMS alert), EDIT (reading was edited manually), OTHR (other/unknown reading source).
  • Alarm Center Email List
    PressureMAP Version 28 makes it possible to designate a list of email recipients for each Alarm Center. Using this capability significantly reduces the number of Alarm Centers that, otherwise, would be required to route alarms to desired recipients.
  • Support for MB Device Type in uM260 Micro Monitor
    PressureMAP now supports use of the MB device type (nitrogen bottle capacity by percentage) in uM260 Micro Monitors. MB device type reading capability is also supported for the uM260 in stand-alone mode.
  • uM260 Monitor Support for Relative Humidity/Temperature Sensor
    In addition to the MB Device Type, PressureMAP now supports use of Device Types JD (air temperature sensor) and RH (relative humidity sensor). These sensors are included in the System Studies Relative Humidity/Temperature Sensor (Part No. 9800-4410). Neither of these device types, however, is supported by the uM260 in stand-alone mode.

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