User`s manual

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iSIC User‟s Manual 72
3.6.1 iChart Alarms
iChart software allows you to create alarms when certain parameters go above or below a
designated value. For example, let‟s say you are in charge of monitoring the water quality at a
fish farm. Why not have iChart send you a text message on your cell phone if the dissolved
oxygen gets too close to critical levels. Using alarms allow you to be warned immediately when a
situation is about to occur.
iChart allows you to:
1. Generate a sound on the computer speaker
2. Flash a warning message on the computer
3. Play a specified .wav file
4. Send an email message
5. Create a text file
6. Send a text message to a cell phone
7. Control a DIO port on a data logger (for triggering auto samplers, etc)
iChart allows you to use two different kinds of alarms: iChart or iSIC based. iChart alarms send
an alarm when data is received in iChart from an iSIC data logger.
Every time iChart receives data from a device it checks to see if the values of that data exceed
an alarm threshold. If it does, an alarm will activate.
PC Alarms allow you to have a certain event occur whenever a parameter goes above or below a
certain point. From the Navigation Panel select the device you would like to have an alarm for.
Then in the main instrument control screen, click the Setup iChart Alarm from the Project
menu. Then select the parameter you would like to set an alarm for.
Click Add to open the Define Alert/Alarm dialog box.