September 25, 2012 - Reliable Controls released version 3 of RC-Archive data acquisition software. This version of RC-Archive adds archiving support for the following new objects: BACnet Single-point and Multipoint Trend Logs, and BACnet and Reliable Controls Protocol Runtime Logs. In fact, BACnet is now a fully supported connection method, allowing discovery and data collection from any Reliable or third-party BACnet project using an IP network. For those who operate facilities that cannot accommodate the standard USB-Key (RC-Key) required to license RC-Archive, a new soft license option may be purchased to authorize RC-Archive without a USB software key.
The scheduled database update interval allows end-users to specify one of three new database synchronization scenarios for the entire system:
- Once every 1, 2, 6 or 12 hours,
- Once every 24 hours at a user-specified hour, or
- At a user-specified day of the week, at a user-specified hour.
Separate from scheduled database updates, RC-Archive updates as often as is required to preserve data. BACnet Trend Log archiving for both Multipoint and Single-point objects, and Runtime Log archiving, for both BACnet and Reliable Controls Protocol will allow archived data to be visually displayed in reports generated in the new RC-Reporter Energy Tracking and Analysis Software, the MACH-ProWeb user interface, and RC-Studio.