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INTRODUCTION
HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE
As you read this guide, you’ll find figures and diagrams to
help you understand and visualize what you’re reading.
You’ll also find numerous icons that flag important infor-
mation or warn you against improper or potentially harmful
activities. These icons include:
A
NOTE
identifies an important or useful
piece of information relating to the topic
under discussion.
A TIP offers a helpful tip relevant to the
topic at hand.
A CAUTION gives notice that an action
can have serious consequences and could
cause harm to equipment or personnel, delays, or
other problems.
INTRODUCING THE RMS™ REMOTE
MONITORING SYSTEM
The RMS remote monitoring system was developed by
Meyer Sound to monitor the electronic operating param-
eters of Meyer Sound self-powered loudspeakers during
operation. RMS employs an Echelon® LonWorks® net-
work to monitor system performance in a client software
application running on a Windows® PC, creating a new
level of loudspeaker and amplifier diagnostic interaction.
RMS allows you to remotely perform such monitoring
tasks as:
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Verifying operation status upon system setup
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Verifying loudspeaker polarity
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Controlling Mute and Solo functions
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Protecting loudspeakers by monitoring limiting activity
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Detecting failed components
RMS also monitors many loudspeaker and amplifier pa-
rameters, including:
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Amplifier channel output voltage (peak and average)
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Amplifier channel output power
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Limiting and excursion
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Input voltage
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Amplifier temperature and fan speed
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Polarity
USER INTERFACE
The RMS application uses different “views” – icons, me-
ters, and text – to display the data you need about your
system depending on your preferences. Views contain
loudspeaker identification information and data from the
amplifier, controller, driver, and power supply of the loud-
speakers in your network; system status conditions cause
color changes in icon and meter indicators to alert you of
faults, excessive levels, and other critical data.
Views are moveable, and typically are arranged on the
screen to reflect the physical layout of the loudspeakers.
You can design a screen full of icons, meters and text,
then save it to a file, giving you the ability to create differ-
ent layouts according to the needs of the system design.
In addition, Mute and Solo control functions are available
and can be enabled/disabled in software or hardware.
NETWORK HARDWARE
Loudspeakers are identified on the network by node
names kept in the RMS database. RMS uses an estab-
lished network platform developed by Echelon Corpora-
tion, the world’s leading supplier of networking technology
for monitoring and control. The platform is not affected
by loss of power at a loudspeaker node, does not require
coaxial or fiber optic lines, is polarity insensitive, and sup-
ports Free Topology (flexible wiring configuration).
An RMS network is a real-time data acquisition system,
so no data is lost during transmission. A standard RMS
network allows up to 62 nodes (115 with a repeater) of
self-powered loudspeakers using a twisted-pair connec-
tion, and several hundred nodes using an Ethernet-based
setup.
INTRODUCTION