[186254] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Modem as a service?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hal Ponton)
Sun Dec 6 20:19:53 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Hal Ponton <hal@buzcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <20151207010750.GB54921@mx.grmbl.net>
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 01:18:37 +0000
To: b <b-nanog@grmbl.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
There are already devices that are doing this like PowerTxT, it may be based=
off another company I may add but we are using them for OOB monitoring of p=
ower for remote sites.
They have just enough power in the capacitors to send a text message to a ma=
ster number or gateway for an NMS.
Have a look at http://www.tekview-solutions.com/powertxt.php
Regards,
Hal Ponton
Senior Network Engineer
Buzcom / FibreWiFi
Tel: 07429 979 217
Email: hal@buzcom.net
> On 7 Dec 2015, at 01:07, b <b-nanog@grmbl.net> wrote:
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> What about a $20 android phone, when it detects a power loss (stops chargi=
ng), send an sms.
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>> On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 12:03:48PM +1100, Karl Auer wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2015-12-06 at 18:13 -0600, Josh Reynolds wrote:
>>> You could always just use UPS equipment that can send out alerts on powe=
r
>>> outages and low bat voltage. Or, use equipment that supports dying gasp.=
>>=20
>> The equipment you have needs to be able to send the alert, which means
>> SMS or email-capable equipment needs to stay powered up long enough to
>> do that.
>>=20
>> There might be a product idea here, if no-one's done it already:
>> Something like a RaspBerry Pi, running off a lithium battery, with a
>> recharge circuit and something to detect a power outage. Add a 3G/4G
>> card to send an SMS alert, put it all in a box, plug it into power. Only
>> configuration needed is setting the SMS target(s)... If you made it
>> network addressable (on 3G/4G) it could send emails as well.
>>=20
>> Regards, K.
>>=20
>> --=20
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> Karl Auer (kauer@biplane.com.au)
>> http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer
>> http://twitter.com/kauer389
>>=20
>> GPG fingerprint: 3C41 82BE A9E7 99A1 B931 5AE7 7638 0147 2C3C 2AC4
>> Old fingerprint: EC67 61E2 C2F6 EB55 884B E129 072B 0AF0 72AA 9882
>>=20
>>=20
