ATLANTA - Siemens Industry, Inc. today announced the U.S. introduction of its new remote data manager. The Sitrans RD500 integrates Web access, alarm event handling and data capture for remote installed process instruments into a single device.

The Sitrans RD500 is suitable for the management and monitoring of remote installed process instruments, including flow, level, pressure, temperature and weighing. The compact device does not require engineering or programming, just a simple configuration to provide flexible I/O and communications and scalability. The RD500 accepts analog, voltage, digital, temperature and Modbus inputs, and provides flexible communications options via Ethernet, cellular and land line modems.

The standard compact flash memory slot offers up to 2 Gigabytes of memory for data storage. Data logging uses file formats of common computer platforms, which can be accessed without special software. Sitrans RD500 also offers standard data transfer options for regular reporting and alarms to remote servers, email-clients – including cell phone, PDA and desktop computers – and SMS messaging.

Today, government regulations increasingly require industry to monitor critical applications for health, safety and environmental reasons. Additionally, a need to reduce cost is driving organizations to access their remote instrumentation for data synchronization, which will enable them to optimize logistic and corporate reporting systems. For both of these applications, Sitrans RD500’s remote monitoring, alarming and data logging provides an economic solution.