About H2NS Environmental
H2NS Environmental Inc was formed in
1994. The founders of H2NS are the
previous founders of Odessa Engineering.
Early on, H2NS Inc.
was contacted by many Odessa Engineering clients in order
to obtain support for their Odessa Hardware and software.
Through word of
mouth we built a reputation of rapid response with reasonable
rates and soon
had a respectable customer base. We performed system expansion
and
upgrades on existing Odessa systems. The original designers
of the Odessa data logger, the DSM series, set out on a
quest to design and produce a data acquisition unit capable
to meet today’s
challenges and flexible enough to meet the unknown after
Y2K.
The environmental instrumentation manufacturers of today
have harnessed the
power of a central processing unit (CPU) and imbedded it
into their
instrumentation. This modernization produced features previously
unavailable to
an operator. Now diagnostics could be run over a serial port,
set-up or set-up
changes made with a keystroke, digitized data was available
for direct download
into a database. However, there was one drawback. All manufacturers
had
different protocols, hence the digital data download could
not be automated.
H2NS Inc. recognized this sign of the future and began
designing a data
acquisition device with the capability of communicating with
an array of
manufacturers instrumentation and combining that data into
a common database.
This concept also allowed operators, at a remote location,
to communicate with
an individual instrument to perform diagnostics and routine “state-of-health
checks. The capability to perform this type of testing led
to “Predictive
Maintenance”, where an operator could envision a failing
instrument component,
perform maintenance and restore the instrument before it
failed completely.
While connected the CPP-4794, data collection continues uninterrupted
while an
operator is exercising inherent features of an instrument.
As not all users had
100% new-smart instrumentation but rather a mixture of old
and new so we
implemented an analog front end for the CPP-4794 in order
to maintain
backward compatibility.
Our software package, DataLink/AQM
is intended for the ambient market. It can
be used to monitor a process, where rapid data sampling
and graphical
presentation is required. The plus feature of DataLink
is that it will communicate
with Odessa data loggers. this provides a cost savings
to clients because the
data acquisition units do not need to be replaced. The
DSM is not leap year
compliant (2004). Another plus benefit of DataLink is that
when and if the DSM
becomes insupportable, it can be replaced by the CPP-4794.
This replacement
is transparent to DataLink.
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