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hi everyone jeff cote here from pacific

outsystem we are doing another session

of votingtechtalk.com

we have a question from a fellow voter

taylor asks jeff the power was out at my

marina for about a week before i had a

chance to get the boat i am still

surprised that no one noticed and the

marina did not notify me

yeah welcome to the world that we live

in it's just the reality uh

it's not

most of the marinas don't have

monitoring at the end stations so unless

someone is monitoring and the problem is

at the panel and it's a bigger problem

you're right they might not know

and it becomes basically our burden to

know if we lose shore power on our boats

and effectively then our batteries can

start draining if there are any loads

taylor continues to ask is there a

do-it-yourself way that my boat can let

me know when the power has been

disconnected

further note he goes on there is wi-fi

at the marina but that doesn't really

solve the problem if the power goes out

good question

um do it yourself

absolutely

depends on the skill set right there are

some of us that are really good at

control systems

and there are ways certainly to actually

buy products that would enable you to do

that it's definitely doable meritron

would probably allow you to build

something like that with actually

off-the-shelf products

obviously you you know depending on the

skill set some of us are going to be

able to do this with no

without any difficulty some others are

going to have it you know not going to

be easy and we're going to need a little

bit of help and for some others of us it

won't be possible right and it's not

that straightforward to know if you know

for who this applies to right the best

way of finding out is seeing what your

experience maybe start looking a little

bit more into it

but most of the time

some other owners what they choose to do

especially if they're going to not be

able to do it themselves are going to

end up buying products that actually

offer that capability right so there are

monitoring systems for boats that enable

you to monitor certain voltages

including shore power

so you can actually monitor shore power

voltages and the loss of shore power and

then you can also monitor voltages on

your battery

i mean some monitoring systems allow you

to monitor even ambient temperature on

your boat inside the boat

so there are certainly different modules

that you can do out there there's some

that are you know all in one device that

do all of that

and there's other devices like maratron

that are going to allow you or even c

zone that are allow you to build that

and actually build a system where you

can monitor and then you can actually

relay that information to the outside

world

and you're right sometimes you can re

relay that information via wi-fi and

some other systems actually have as a

backup so they'll use wi-fi when

available and if wi-fi is not available

they're actually going to go over

cellular network

so now of course there's a fee to that

some are just you know text messages how

frequently do you have the text message

fee so you can actually keep the cost

down

uh in the past certainly when we looked

into that you know there was some

solutions where you could have wi-fi as

primary cellular as backup and then you

could also at the time actually have i

think the text messages were not like

you weren't paid regularly you could

actually pay per usage so there are ways

to keep the cost down but again you know

it depends on how much redundancy you're

looking for

so yeah definitely uh you can absolutely

build that yourself um start probably

the easiest one i think for doing it

yourself would probably be meritron and

if you've got c-zone on your boat

already or you're thinking about going

sea zone um then season might be a

contender as well so yeah great question

and it's important for us all to

remember that when we're away from our

boats

our boats can't talk to us and so the

ones of us that are lucky enough to

visit our boats regularly

that's a great thing so

count yourself lucky and for the ones of

us that don't including myself my boat

is far away i haven't been to my boat in

over four weeks now

and then the monitoring systems are

actually a good way to give you peace of

mind

and oh lastly another idea that i've

heard about is some people are doing

these with security cameras from home

entertainment

or home security and they're putting a

camera looking at their ac dc panel and

the camera is basically remotely logged

in and so you can actually remotely log

into your camera over the obviously

marina's wi-fi and you can look at your

ac dc panel to know what the voltage is

you can't really commute it's old school

it's a video feed

you've got to log in it doesn't send you

alerts but that's another really maybe

do it yourself less expensive way than

doing it with other products so thanks

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