Phone Home Meter Read

[johnm@ucopier.com]

what is the easiest/cheapest (or free) way to automate (email or data transfer) my meter reads from the copiers back to my office?

Canon IR 3025, 3035, 2270, 3570, 5000

[CanonSco]

Good question.

The IR5000 will be the issue as it does not support ERDS ( Canon's auto meter reading system ). The rest of the machines have this embedded. Although I personally have never set it up to send readings anywhere other than Canon's own billing server. Has anyone on here?

As for the 5000 , Canon has RDS "agents" , small interface boxes that hang anywhere on the network to poll this info on legacy machines and send it either via EMAIL or HTTPS. Again I have only ever set these up to send to Canons own UGW billing portal / server.

On both the embedded and agent solutions this destination URL and port are changeable though.

Not sure that helps ya though..

[KenB]

Canon imageware Enterprise Management Console (iWEMC) should do the trick.

As I recall, it's a free solution, but you have to be a dealer to download it.

[SCREWTAPE]

There are trial plugins. But as Ken mention, you have to be a dealer to download it.

[KenB]

I don't know about the current version (3.0), but I'm pretty sure that versions 1 and 2 were free.

(I haven't used the product for a few years now.)

Once you had the main (web based) application. you added the "meter capture" plugin, and configured it to email monthly reports.

It definitely must be acquired through an authorized dealer, and there is a very good chance that your dealer would not just hand you the software, but rather charge you to install it.

You would NOT want to install it yourself, as doing so is absolutely not for the timid - it's anything but straightforward. (The manual for it is 482 pages!)

Again, the rules may have changed for version 3.

Of course, you should still be able to get older versions of WebJet Admin (WJA) from HP at no cost. (The product's latest versions aren't free like they used to be.)

Hope this helps!

[teckat]

what is the easiest/cheapest (or free) way to automate (email or data transfer) my meter reads from the copiers back to my office?

Canon IR 3025, 3035, 2270, 3570, 5000

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[teckat]

what is the easiest/cheapest (or free) way to automate (email or data transfer) my meter reads from the copiers back to my office?

Canon IR 3025, 3035, 2270, 3570, 5000

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[teckat]

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