With the release of Version 3, Plexus Technology propels your ALTITUDE NETSERVERS to new heights of performance. Enhanced visibility, tighter integration with your business needs and powerful new options provide your business with new opportunities to further extend the benefits of the ALTITUDE platform.

Enhanced visibility and control.

The day-to-day operation of buildings requires multiple and complex processes to interact in real time. ALTITUDE V3 dramatically simplifies the coordination of multiple systems into a single and consistent asset. Extended 3rd party protocol support, active trend displays, new Alert Service and many more new features bring you the best tools to efficiently control your buildings, everyday, everywhere.

Powerful new options.

The ALTITUDE Enterprise Manager (EM). - The ALTITUDE EM unifies the data from individual NETSERVERS and provides powerful applications for the Centralised Management of Alarms, Security, and Maintenance. With distributed Alarm Monitoring and real-time peer-to-peer services between NETSERVERS the solution provides multiple levels of redundancy in support of business-critical applications.

The ALTITUDE Energy Suite (ES). - The ALTITUDE ES is an invaluable tool to reduce utility costs, bring financial certainty to utility bills and quantify progress on environmental objectives as set out in the Energy Policy Act of 2005. The ALTITUDE ES provides monitoring, targeting and analysis of energy data provided by the ALTITUDE Server data logger. Powerful and personalised reports are delivered right to your desktop. Whenever you need to aggregate, compare and swiftly execute factually-based decisions on energy usage from your standard Web browser.

Flexible integration with your business needs.

The ALTITUDE V3 Alarm and Logging services now provide built-in support for MySQL and SQL databases, offering extended storage capability.

ALTITUDE V3 closely integrates with your IT standards - in addition to Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP is now supported and ALTITUDE web pages are served through Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS).

Upgrading to ALTITUDE V3 is an easy process.

V3 is a software-only upgrade, with a built-in utility to automatically and safely upgrade existing site configurations. NETSERVERS can be upgraded one at a time, providing a swift and safe path to enhanced performance.

The key features.

• Web Based Configuration (WBC) now available for all ALTITUDE services
• New Alarm Manager with built-in support for Access, SQL and MySQL databases, multiple acknowledgment alarms, support for Text type alarms, history drill down, hysteresis
• New Alert Service with support for POP3/SMTP messages and timed escalation
• New multi threaded Data Logger application and built-in support for Access, SQL and MySQL
• Extensive Library with eye-candy symbols and SmartComponents ready for use
• Enhanced Pilot engineering tool with more than 30 new features including new SmartComponent and Screen Template wizards, Engineering Mode to toggle the display between tag value and tag reference, substitution in SmartComponents , Group editing, etc.
• New Graph Module with auto-scaling and zoom
• New Report Engine with more report types and more report information
• New OPC service with automatic building of the tag tree
• New WBC print function with page formatted reports
• New Web Server service with enhanced performance, delivering web pages and real-time information even faster

ALTITUDE now available as 'Software Only'.

In support of customer demand, Plexus is now offering the ALTITUDE Server as a software only option for new projects to complement the NETSERVER range of products. This enables end users who have preferred hardware supplier agreements to have ALTITUDE installed on their preferred PC platforms in line with corporate IT policy. Benefits of extended warranty options and on-site support are then available from PC suppliers to ensure system downtime is minimised.