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Linn County IT director says low-cost generator and alarm monitoring cuts potential vendor costs
Summary
IT Director Chris Martin reported new in‑house monitoring for generators and fire alarms that he said will provide real‑time alerts, long-term logs and large cost savings compared with vendor systems; he also gave an operations update on tickets, radios and phone issues.
Chris Martin, Linn County IT director, told commissioners on Oct. 20 that his office has built in‑house monitoring for county generators and the Justice Center fire alarm that he said provides real‑time alerts and long-term logs at a small fraction of vendor prices.
Martin said the county’s vendor quoted roughly $5,000 per generator plus ongoing fees, but his team interfaced directly with one generator and “we can actually do some, basically, some programming and some interfacing ourselves,” producing a dashboard and alerting for delivery of roughly $100 in parts. “So by doing that, it helps with fire marshal reports,” Martin said. He added the system records runtime, alarms and other metrics to preserve a…
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