3. Navigate to Notifiers section in your ASPECT Project Tree.
4. Right-click on Notifiers and select Add Notifier(s) in the context menu.
ABB Cylon ASPECT can warn you the moment something goes wrong – an HVAC fault, a threshold alarm, or a sensor failure. SMSEagle hardware SMS gateway turns that warning into an SMS to the person who needs to act.
ASPECT-Studio has built-in support for SMSEagle, so you only enter the device’s IP address, username and password, with no scripts to write.
SMSEagle sends an SMS when an alarm appears in ASPECT, when the alarm ends, and when the ASPECT system restarts.
You choose which alarms (by priority) and at what times SMSEagle sends SMS, for example only outside working hours.
An ASPECT alarm is triggered, cleared, or the ASPECT engine restarts.
ASPECT’s built-in SMSEagle Gateway notifier sends an HTTP API request to the SMSEagle device over your local network.
SMSEagle delivers the alert over its own cellular connection, not through a third-party service, as an SMS, to the configured recipients.
Create an API user in SMSEagle, configure the SMSEagle Gateway notifier in ASPECT-Studio, and deploy the project.
SMSEagle sends ABB Cylon ASPECT alerts through its own SIM card, straight to the mobile network, so they don’t depend on internet access or a cloud SMS provider.
Escalation groups and shift schedules make sure the ASPECT alert reaches the person on duty, and the next person on the list if nobody responds.
Two SMSEagle devices can work as an HA cluster: if one fails, the other takes over sending.
1. Open ASPECT-Studio and in your ASPECT Project tree navigate to Services>SMS Eagle Notification Service.
2. In the Basic properties tab fill in the Host (IP address of your SMSEagle), Password and Username for the user created on your SMSEagle device.
Note: Press ENTER after typing the password for the properties window to accept it.
3. Navigate to Notifiers section in your ASPECT Project Tree.
4. Right-click on Notifiers and select Add Notifier(s) in the context menu.
5. Set Enter Count to 1 and click on the OK button.
6. In the Basic properties tab change the Notifier Type to SMSEagle Gateway (1) and the Reference Name to SMSEagle.
7. Double-click on the Send To property value and enter a comma-separated list of the mobile numbers of all recipients.
8. Double-click on the Subject property value to define the Subject of the SMS message.
Note: Both plain text and ASPECT TStrings (Tokenized Strings) can be used in this field
9. Double-click on the Content property value to adjust your message content.
Note: Both plain text and ASPECT TStrings (Tokenized Strings) can be used in this field
10. Set the Active Mode property to specify how this Notifier will become active.
Note: Notifier Active Mode can be Disabled, Always Active, Controlled by Schedule, or Inverted Schedule Control.
Disabled Notifiers will automatically stop evaluation – this is useful to temporarily suspend a notifier without deleting it.
Always Active Notifiers will always continue to evaluate.
Controlled by Schedule (with a corresponding schedule selection) will be true any time a schedule has an event/value and false any time that it does not have an event/value.
Inverted Schedule control (with a bound schedule) will be true any time that the bound schedule does not contain a value.
11. Set the Notifier’s alarm priorities to limit notifications to specific ASPECT alarm priorities.
12. Set the Notify on Exit property to receive notifications when alarm is cleared
13. Deploy the ASPECT project.
14. To test whether notifications being sent to all desired recipients, deliberately trigger an alarm.
That’s it! 😊
SMSEagle for ASPECT systems can send 3 types of messages:
SMSEagle is a hardware & software solution that guarantees a swift delivery of your messages to designated recipients, whether it’s for notifications, alerts, or important updates.
After registering to a demo you get a remote access to our physical device NXS-9750.
