Introduction

This chapter provides an overview of the product and serves as a quick introduction to the installation and operation of Avelon Beetle.

How it works

Avelon Cloud is the online platform combining energy management, control system and management of real estate and facilities.

The virtual Beetle is the link between your Alcedo Inhouse and your plants. Via various Ethernet-based protocols and interfaces you can integrate your controllers into the system to operate and monitor your plants.

Brief overview of the system architecture

Avelon offers two basic systems: Avelon Cloud and Alcedo Inhouse. With Avelon Cloud the Beetles reliably take over all necessary functions on site, such as data recording or alarm checking. The servers are located in a certified bank computer center near Zurich.

Avelon Cloud

Avelon Cloud is the cloud solution of Avelon system, which does not require server hardware/capacity on site.

Alcedo Inhouse

Alcedo Inhouse is built according to the classic architecture of a SCADA system. A server system is part of a (local) network. All communication protocols run directly on the server.

Alcedo Inhouse is based on a modern infrastructure. It is delivered as a virtual appliance that can be easily integrated into existing VMWare or Hyper-V environments.

For large systems Alcedo Inhouse can be combined with several locally distributed Beetles. For example the Beetles can relieve the control system by reading meters via local bus systems.