Case Study: CPP Wind Engineering improves remote wind-data access and reliability with Perle IOLAN Device Servers

CPP Wind Engineering saves a trip to Australia with Perle IOLAN Device Servers

CPP Wind Engineering, a wind engineering firm, faced the challenge of accessing and collecting data from sensitive equipment like anemometers mounted in hard-to-reach locations on skyscrapers, where equipment failure and downtime were not an option. Their goal was to achieve reliable remote access to this serial-based equipment 24/7. To solve this, they turned to vendor Perle and its IOLAN Device Servers.

The solution from Perle involved using IOLAN Device Servers to convert the serial data from the equipment to Ethernet, allowing CPP to tap into a building's existing LAN for access from anywhere in the world. This provided crucial redundancy and flexibility. The results were highly reliable data collection without failure, which saved costly and time-consuming site visits and enabled CPP to effectively analyze wind data to make buildings safer. Perle equipment was chosen for its robustness, high MTBF rates, and lifetime warranty.

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