Hi all,
One of our clients has just seen a job of ours where we have remote access, and were marveling at how easy it makes things, and how little they spend on call outs to address minor programming issues. They floated the idea of including remote access in all of their future jobs, but they're in a radically different situation - they build smaller, one-off systems that go to a different site every time. So what I want to know is, what's the smallest, cheapest, simplest way anyone can recommend of effecting remote access to a small panel? I'm aiming at a hardware solution that we could put in every panel and not have to rely on the guys onsite to do anything more than connect a phone line (or internet?) to it. I know that I could get a wireless modem and a sim card, but typically this access would only ever be used for the first couple of months after a system is put in and all the kinks are ironed out, and then probably not used again for 4-5 years when they decide they want something changed. So it's unlikely that our client (or their customer) is going to want to pay the phone bill for a sim card indefinitely.
Any suggestions?
One of our clients has just seen a job of ours where we have remote access, and were marveling at how easy it makes things, and how little they spend on call outs to address minor programming issues. They floated the idea of including remote access in all of their future jobs, but they're in a radically different situation - they build smaller, one-off systems that go to a different site every time. So what I want to know is, what's the smallest, cheapest, simplest way anyone can recommend of effecting remote access to a small panel? I'm aiming at a hardware solution that we could put in every panel and not have to rely on the guys onsite to do anything more than connect a phone line (or internet?) to it. I know that I could get a wireless modem and a sim card, but typically this access would only ever be used for the first couple of months after a system is put in and all the kinks are ironed out, and then probably not used again for 4-5 years when they decide they want something changed. So it's unlikely that our client (or their customer) is going to want to pay the phone bill for a sim card indefinitely.
Any suggestions?