Building-up an Automated Data Collection System

The need for gathering real-time information in building and industrial environments has increased in recent years. In the building environment, along with automatic utility meter reading, other information is increasingly needed e.g. room temperatures or device conditions. In the industrial environment, for instance in the paper industry, information on paper reel locations is essential when developing logistics and supply chain management. This paper presents a particular system definition of the automated data collection system and clarifies management issues. The study is based on the automated data collection system (ADCS). ADCS is an open and advanced platform e.g. for building control and monitoring systems. This study also analyzes ADCS data loads, quality of transmission, and error sensibility in different system parties. By using ADCS infrastructure, the usually inconvenient attachment and registration of new devices can be solved.