AXON devices are intelligent products specifically designed for smaller remote telemetry applications. They provide users with autonomous devices that interface with various sensors and relays for alarm, monitoring & automation functionalities. Thanks to their SNMP agents, these products are the perfect remote telemetry companions to report to any SNMP Manager, including Davicom’s Cortex Series. Moreover, their HTML5 web-based interfaces provide an easy-to-operate environment for visualization and configuration of the units.
There are 3 types of AXON modules:
- An Analog Input module with 8 bipolar differential inputs, the AXON-8A
- A Digital Input module with 8 opto-isolated status inputs, the AXON-8D
- A Relay Output module with 5 SPDT (Form C) relays, the AXON-5R
In addition to SNMP, AXON modules can be set to operate in MODBUS-TCP slave mode. This allows them to be used as direct I/O expansion for Davicom Cortex units, or in any other system requiring MODBUS slave I/O points.
One extremely useful feature of the AXON modules is their built-in network ping. Each device can be configured to ping a fixed IP address on the network. If the ping is not answered within a given time, then the AXON can be programmed to take action. This action can be to: initiate an alarm sequence, send a command to another AXON, log a reading, or (in the case of the 5R module) actually use one of its relays to power cycle a flakey network element such as a switch or router.
