Astro Tech Page 3: Current Project Details
Our current product, Banshee/Mercury Mark I, is a "monitor and alert"-paging system for industrial test equipment (electro-dynamic shakers, environmental test chambers, and other industrial devices). This product removes the need for on-duty 2nd and 3rd shift technicians and watch-standers at industrial test sites.
Project Banshee-Mercury is a cell-phone to cell-phone remote status alert system for both after-hours and during working hours; rapid notification for On-Call: test technicians or engineers or lab management of a test system crash/abort/fault. The base-receiver unit may resemble, in part, the UD preamp tester (for MA1150) in basic panel indicator layout.
Extending beyond the Mark I version, future models
1. Unit may have an optional Auto Reset-Restart function
2. Unit may have optional Rx/Tx with a base box to remotely attempt a reset-restart, by authorized tech staff.
3. Unit may have optional Numeric data query-report.
(i.e. Chamber Temp C, Chamber Humidity RH, Ambient Temp C, Test runtime HHH:MM:SS, Coll Current L&R AVG & Peak Amps).
4. Unit may have optional Supplemental Numeric data query-report (Custom).
(i.e. Cooling Tower Status. Shop-Air Compressor Status, DUT Status, Power Supply Status, User Configurable)
5. Unit may have remote-base command/control ability for "shutdown test" for Env Chamber &/or Vibration system.
6. Unit
7. TBD
Technical Drawings and Schematics will not be posted online. All "Confidential and Propriety" Documents shall be kept secured.
M. Hubbell Chief Engineer.