[186255] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Modem as a service?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hal Ponton)
Sun Dec 6 20:23:54 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Hal Ponton <hal@buzcom.net>
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 01:23:24 +0000
In-Reply-To: <04C24B85-C161-4859-BE2D-4C305922AE59@buzcom.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Apologies,
Should have listed the following link as this is suited for the US market wh=
ereas the other is European.
http://www.tekview-solutions.com/powertxtduo.php
Regards,
Hal Ponton
Senior Network Engineer
Buzcom / FibreWiFi
Tel: 07429 979 217
Email: hal@buzcom.net
> On 7 Dec 2015, at 01:18, Hal Ponton <hal@buzcom.net> wrote:
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> There are already devices that are doing this like PowerTxT, it may be bas=
ed off another company I may add but we are using them for OOB monitoring of=
power for remote sites.
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> They have just enough power in the capacitors to send a text message to a m=
aster number or gateway for an NMS.
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> Have a look at http://www.tekview-solutions.com/powertxt.php
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> Regards,
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> Hal Ponton
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> Senior Network Engineer
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> Buzcom / FibreWiFi
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> Tel: 07429 979 217
> Email: hal@buzcom.net
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>> 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 charg=
ing), 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 pow=
er
>>>> outages and low bat voltage. Or, use equipment that supports dying gasp=
.
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>>> Regards, K.
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>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>> Karl Auer (kauer@biplane.com.au)
>>> http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer
>>> http://twitter.com/kauer389
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>>> GPG fingerprint: 3C41 82BE A9E7 99A1 B931 5AE7 7638 0147 2C3C 2AC4
>>> Old fingerprint: EC67 61E2 C2F6 EB55 884B E129 072B 0AF0 72AA 9882
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