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Introduction to groov 3

Published on Jul 17, 2015
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What is groov? And how can it help you get your system on your mobile? Watch this short introduction video, and at the conclusion, you can request to be contacted by an engineer.

Transcript

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Can you imagine viewing and controlling your automation systems or equipment from right
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here on your mobile? As a facilities engineer would you like to be able to view the key
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stats on your building while away from your desk? Or if you are a manager wouldn’t you
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love to be able access your production KPI’s directly from your iPad? Or maybe even display
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them on up a large screen TV in the factory? What if you have remote assets, and need to
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view them from on the road? Or if you’re an OEM machine builder, would you like a low-cost,
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local operator interface for your machine or equipment? With groov, all these things
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and more are possible. groov is a zero-programming way to build mobile interfaces for your system.
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groov comes as a rugged, industrially hardened appliance, like this, or if you already have
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a Windows PC available, as software called “groov server for Windows.” groov is built
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from the ground up with security in mind. groov can connect to hundreds of devices via
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OPC-UA, a SNAP-PAC controller, or any device that supports the Modbus/TCP protocol. Like
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this MicroLogix PLC. All of the gadgets in groov are drag and drop ready, and check this
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out, while you build desktop and tablet pages, groov automatically builds your mobile pages
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at the same time. With groov you can quickly create an event that will be logged whenever
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its conditions are met. You can see the status of all configured events by looking at the
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Current Status page, filter by different criteria, or download the log file for viewing, displaying
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or archiving in other programs. You don’t even need to be looking at your mobile all
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the time, groov can send an email or text message for any Event with the simple tick
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of the box. It really is that easy to put your system on your mobile with groov. Now
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there’s much, much more to groov, including support for live video, real-time trending,
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supervisory control, user accounts, images, mate, I couldn’t possibly cover it all in
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this short video. So please, check out groov.com, there you’ll find step-by-step workshop
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videos, case studies, datasheets, and networking guides, just to name a few of the resources.
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Thanks for watching, Cheers Mate.