Introducing ONCall

ONCall turns your ONSPEC system into a powerful alarm monitoring and notification tool.  Your ONSPEC setups run as usual, a real asset for rapid development of an ONCall application.  ONSPEC does the alarm detection and ONCall makes the desired telephone calls, pages, or audio announcements. 

Key Features

Reach Your Operators

Alert goes even further to reach the operators – wherever they might be in the world. When an alarm condition is detected, a user-defined list is consulted to determine who should handle the alarm. Then calls are made in the predetermined order that is valid for the current time. The call list varies regularly since each operator may have different working times and days. A user can be informed of alarms via:

No Recording Needed

A text-to-speech generator is used to make announcements and phone calls. There is no need to record the messages. The text-to-speech generator produces a consistent, easy-to-understand voice.

Announcements are made by dynamically building a sentence from the various fields configured by the user. This sentence is sent to the soundcard through the text-to-speech engine. This varies over time since it is based upon current conditions.

Powerful Scheduling

To ensure that each user is called when scheduled to take the calls, ONCall permits you to define multiple week schedules identifying days and hours that calls can be made (up to a 52-week schedule).

Alarm History Logging

Alarm information can be stored in an industry standard database format for historical data storage and analysis. This data can even be examined across a network.

Fully Configurable

Not everyone agrees on the best way to handle alarm data. ONCall was designed to let the engineer design an alarm monitoring system the way he or she wants it.

Standards Based

ONCall works best on Microsoft NT operating systems (Windows 2000 and above), but will also work in the consumer grade operating systems (Windows 98 or Windows ME). ONCall is built upon an alphabet soup of Microsoft technologies to ensure that it works well now and in the future. These technologies include MAPI (messaging), SAPI (speech) and TAPI (telephony).

System Requirements

Microsoft Windows 98 2nd Ed, Windows ME, Windows 2000, or Windows XP, IBM Compatible PC (233 MHz or faster), 64 MB RAM, 1024 X 768 graphics, Soundcard, speakers, ONSPEC Control Software. Compatible voice modem required for voice phone operations.

Pricing

Contact Automation ONSPEC for the latest pricing information. A free trial version of ONCall is available for download from the company’s Web site at www.AutomationOnspec.com.

More Information

ONCall™ is a trademark of Automation ONSPEC Software, Inc. All other product names used herein are for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners