9410 series
Alarms and alerts
Alerting
An alert is an external notification produced by the meter to indicate changes, for
example, a change of state for a digital input, or a power quality event such as a sag or
swell.
Alerts are generated when a pulse or trigger that is configured to indicate the alert
condition activates. You can configure alerts to send notification emails or messages to
your energy management system through your meter’s existing Ethernet
communications connections. You can configure alert messages as a simple text string
or you can also include device information. You can configure the alert’s priority so that
alerts are also recorded in the meter’s event log.
You can configure multiple alerts on a single meter, each having different activation
triggers, messages and/or transmission types. For instance, you can have two alerts,
one generating an email, the other sending a message to your energy management
system, but using the same trigger conditions; or you can have two alerts with different
conditions that send two unique emails to two different email addresses. You can also
generate alerts based on triggers from devices connected to your meter.
Creating alerts is an advanced feature that requires familiarity with ION architecture
and your power system and communications network. To create an alert, you must
configure the Alert module using a configuration tool. You must also configure your
device’s communications as needed to send the alerts, such as configuring your
meter’s SMTP settings and connecting it via Ethernet to an SMTP mail server in order
to send an alert by email.
Go to www.usa.siemens.com/pds to see the
ION meter alerts
technical note for
detailed information on creating and configuring alerts, and the
ION Reference
for
detailed information about the Alert module and its operation.
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