KSC Remote Monitoring
Alarm System (RMAS). SCL is currently being used at the Kennedy Space
Center to monitor the health and status of up to 200 racks of communications
equipment located throughout the Space Center campus which provide communications
for launch-critical data lines. Each rack contains as many as six fiber-optic
transceiver chasses. The SCL Real Time Engine is embedded in a Motorola
68010 single-board computer located in each rack. The embedded RTE monitors
the health and status of the equipment housed within the rack (collecting
data from 48 analog sensors and 120 discrete sensors) and reports the status
to a central control site. The central control site uses the full SCL Development
Environment to monitor and display the status of the entire system. The
central control site uses the full SCL Development Environment, hosted
on Sun SPARCstations to monitor and display the status of the entire system
using a graphics visualization system.
As a subcontractor to NASA/KSC/I-NET
on this program. ICS was responsible for the system architecture definition
and wrote all software for the project. Additionally, ICS specified hardware
components used for the prototype single-board computers designed for the
program and was instrumental in hardware debuggig of the computers. When
fully implemented, the system was expected to provide a substantial return
on investment for NASA/KSC with
a break-even point occurring less than one year from installation.
KSC
Remote Monitoring Alarm System