SMARTTRACE COMPARISON
COMPARING SMARTTRACE TO ITS COMPEDITORS:
It's Like Upgrading From A Walkman To An Iphone For Your Facility
Comparing SmartTrace to other platforms on the market is like comparing an iPhone to a vintage Sony Walkman. Both can play music, but SmartTrace is a multifunctional tool that revolutionizes how you manage your heat tracing. While our competitors offer monitoring systems that merely provide a glimpse of your heat trace panel, SmartTrace stands out as the best monitoring and management platform available.
SmartTrace isn’t just about monitoring; it’s about empowerment. It enables facilities to seize control of their infrastructure, boasting a proven track record of minimizing operational issues stemming from heat trace failures, slashing maintenance costs, reducing power consumption and carbon footprint, and offering unparalleled visibility into system health. With its digital field testing reports setting it apart from competitors, SmartTrace is the tool that everyone, from management to operators and technicians, can’t live without.
| Feature | Description | SmartTrace | Raychem Supervisor | Thermon Genesis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| User Account | Unlimited individual secure user accounts with individual permission control | YES | YES | YES |
| Secure Login & Authentication | 2 factor authentication and optional facility authentication integration | YES | ||
| Mobile Device Access | View and control your heat tracing in the field from your phone or tablet | YES | ||
| Live and Interactive Dashboard | Understand the health of your EHT system. Know your system to protect your assets | YES | ||
| Automatic Continuous Device Trending | Continuous device trending for all circuits. Keep your data forever | YES | Manual setup required per circuit. Hard drive limitation | Hard drive limitation |
| Power Trending | Continuous power trending and analytics to reduce power consumption | YES | ||
| Calculated Wasted Power Usage | Calculate wasted power usage of your heat trace circuits | YES | ||
| Live Programming Audits | Automatic programming audits to make sure the system is operating as per design - catch issues before they happen | YES | ||
| User Audit Trail | Clear and concise audit trail of every programming or configuration change on every heat trace controller. See what and who made configurations to the heat trace system | YES | ||
| Live Current and Temperature Monitoring From the Alarm Page | View live and temperature and current values in the alarm list page. | YES | Static value when the alarm was generated | Static value when the alarm was generated |
| Advanced Search Capabilities | Advanced search capabilities. Search process line data or description to find the associated heat trace circuits | YES | ||
| Weather Forecast | forecast data on your dashboard | YES | ||
| Document Control Center | Built-in document control center to store PDF copies of heat trace isometrics, P&ID's, panel schedules, etc. OR linked with an existing document control center | Multiple files and integration to existing document control center | Manual upload | Manual upload. File Limitation |
| Alarm Validation | Automatically validate your alarms eliminating nuisance and troublesome alarms | YES | ||
| Live Circuit Monitoring & Configuration | Monitor and Configure individual heat trace circuits live from any device | YES | YES | YES |
| SAP or Maximo Integration | Integration to ERP system to manage scheduling, alarm tickets and repairs. | YES | ||
| Criticality Rulesets | Not all alarms are created equally, utilize all your process, alarm and temperature data to create rulesets to prioritize alarms the right way | YES | ||
| Alarm Historian | Track your alarm history to provide quick access to diagnostics and problem identification | YES | YES | |
| Scheduling Data Historian | Real time historian of all heat trace related activities at your fingertips on the circuit viewer page | YES | ||
| Communication Loop Monitoring | Detailed monitoring of the status and alarms specifically related to heat trace communication loops. | YES | ||
| Forced On EHT Manager | Manage your forced on circuits to tune your system and correct problematic circuits | YES | ||
| Nuisance EHT Manager | Manage your nuisance alarms and address design and installation issues | YES | ||
| Freeze Log Manager | Manage problematic heat trace circuits by identifying freezing issues and address the design and installation. | YES | ||
| Heat Trace Reporting Emails | Send scheduled reports on the health of the system at custom intervals that make sense for you | YES | ||
| Circuit Manager Tools | Circuit information on mobile devices for maintenance teams to perform EI duties and troubleshooting | YES | ||
| Multiple Facility Manager | Use one platform to manage EHT and EHT alarms at multiple facilities | YES | ||
| Digital Field Testing Reports | Integrate field test reports directly into SmartTrace, enabling technicians to record and view completed tests across all HT circuits | YES |
