Networked Robotics NTMS4 - How to Connect your NTMS4 in a Network Closet

Introduction

This document describes how to connect an NTMS4 in a network closet. Using this method you will plug in probes or direct connections to other types of monitored devices into your company's network wall jacks. The connections are "patched' in the network closet to a temperature port NTMS hardware.

Network Closet Setup

Your typical network closet is comprised of a patch panel and switch.

Switch

These pieces of hardware are connected such that you can use patch cable to determine which port on the router feeds any given wall plate and jack. Pictured below is a simplified typical setup:

Installing the NTMS4

The NTMS4 is installed  with the switch and patch panel as to convert wall plates and their corresponding jacks into temperature ports. Using different colored patch cable to identify temperature lines, connect the desired jacks on the patch panel into your NTMS4. Plug the NTMS4 directly into the switch for internet. Pictured below are simplified NTMS4 network closet installations of 4 and 12 monitored devices respectively:

 

Typical Installation

Now all wall plates that are connected to the NTMS4 are temperature ports. It is now possible to plug in proprietary Networked Robotics temperature probes directly into the wall plate. Use extension cables to lengthen the reach of the probe if needed.

You are now able to see temperatures in this room or other monitored device from anywhere in the world; office, hotel, vacation house, relative's house, etc.