Product Overview

Overview of the Instance offering

Industrial Network Solutions e.g. Fire Panel Networks

  • Instance provides network solutions to maximise the uptime of communication data systems by creating redundancy, maintaining, protecting and monitoring the physical layer.
  • Our products can interface with RS-485 signalling, optic fibre networks and industrial Ethernet data collection nodes.
  • The Instance technology and system approach is to segment networks into their simplest component parts, consisting of two networks with adjoining isolated data links.
  • Each link's cable characteristics are measured and the best matching cable termination impedance is selected.
  • This minimises signal distortion and signal reflection at each network node.
  • It allows for increased data transfer speeds through the optimisation of the physical parameters of the communication channel.
  • Data is dispersed across the network through multiple data ports of network nodes.
  • Instance offers industrial communication network topologies an intelligent ´plug and play/view´ approach.
  • Fault detection in the physical layer traditionally has been extremely time-consuming because it was not known within which section the fault was. The Instance technology has put an end to that because it can visually display the operation of the network system and indicate where the fault has occurred. Fault detection that took days to do before can now be achieved in minutes.
  • Additionally, the software packages associated with this technology can analyse faults to give diagnostics of faults. This aspect of the Instance technology in itself is an enormous contribution to network solutions and improving the industrial QoS of a communications network.

Data Communication Equipment

  • The Instance products can be used as passive devices where they function purely as serial medium converters between RS-485, RS-232, Optic Fibre, USB, Bluetooth, Wifi and GPRS platforms.


Network Compliance Toolsets

  • Instance products provide the data management and monitoring functionality required to generate the Installation, Commissioning and Acceptance certificates as presented in BS5839-1 for Fire Systems. All network fault events can be automatically captured and saved for diagnosis or event report generation.


Industrial Network Integration

  • The Instance multi-protocol support on an optimised and monitored RS-485 and/or Optic Fibre communication bus allows for reliable integration of multiple networks.


Remote Maintenance of Fire Networks

  • Instance has a new range of products for the market to support an increase in efficiency and reduction in costs associated with maintaining Fire systems.
  • Instance product manufacturing is ISO9001 compliant.