Barix IP Control Solutions Form the Nucleus of Critical Systems Monitoring for Oceanic Time Warner of Hawaii

ZURICH, Switzerland, Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Barix AG, a pioneer in IP-based audio, intercom, control, and monitoring, today announced that Oceanic Time Warner, a division of Time Warner Cable serving the Hawaiian islands, is using Barix Barionet IP control devices to monitor more than 1500 digital and analog signals from critical equipment at 18 locations around Hawaii.

Oceanic Time Warner offers residential and business services for cable TV, digital phone, and high-speed and wireless internet access. The Barix solution allows Oceanic Time Warner to efficiently and reliably monitor the health of electrical and HVAC equipment at its multiple distribution facilities from a central location over IP. Oceanic Time Warner engineers pull various status readings and alarm notifications from critical air- conditioning, incoming utility line, UPS and back-up generator systems using multiple Barix Barionet devices connected to a single, wide-area network.

According to Mark Melville, Communications Engineer at Oceanic Time Warner, business value and technical reliability made the Barionet an ideal solution to form the signal monitoring nucleus within his new networked system. Melville also cited the ability of the Barionet to communicate with both legacy analog and digital systems as highly valuable.

"In 2006, we identified the value in monitoring various points within our distribution system and to trend these over time. Such data provides a valuable benchmark and helps predict the health of current operations," said Melville. "The cost-efficiency of the Barix products and the ease of integration provided exceptional business value, and technically the Barionet has proved to be an excellent edge monitoring tool that provides time stamps for critical events. This helps to place the pieces together following a system outage."

DataNab, an IP systems programmer and Barix distributor based in Burnsville, Minnesota, programmed and delivered the system to Oceanic Time Warner's specifications. The complete Barionet solution interfaces with InduSoft Web Studio to log and graphically display information from the monitored points, recall system trends, and generate e-mail alarm notifications.

All Barix products are inexpensive, low-power devices that are scalable to the growth of the operation; offer reliability through a PC-FREE design with no moving parts; and serve as a flexible platform for integration into virtually any operation requiring audio transport and delivery.

Please visit the Barix website at http://www.barix.com or http://www.ip-audio.info for more information.