MERLIN CP System Manager Software
MERLIN INSTALLATION & CONFIGURATION
Once the CPSM software has been installed, MERLIN TR and Test Post Monitors are ready to be added to the database. This can be done in either of two ways:
- • When installing monitors in the field, by sending them text messages from a cellphone
- • Before installing the monitors in the field, from CPSM.
Both methods are easy. However, when there are many monitors to install, the CPSM Installation Wizard guides the user through the various set-up parameters and provides pull-down menus of existing pipelines and HQ telephone numbers to speed up configuration.
A pipeline and location ID is the basic information required for each monitor. Other parameters that can be configured (the software contains default values) include:
- • Measurement and reporting times
- • Measurement channel labels
- • Shunt/coupon values
- • Chainage distances.
Monitor data entry
To aid the user in setting measurement and reporting times, CPSM incorporates functions to:
- • Set all monitors on a pipeline to take their readings at the same time
- • Set all monitors on a pipeline to report at intervals of 2 minutes apart – this avoids excessive SMS traffic within a short period of there are many monitors in the system.
