Oscar System Overview

An Oscar system is made up of two or more members or parts.. One of these members must be a D.O. Sensing buoy but all of the other members are optional and may be selected based upon your needs and preferences. These members communicate with each other as a family, typically using wireless radios. These members are:

  • Oscar Mom - From the comfort of your home or office, you can monitor & control all of your ponds and aerator operations 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. OscarMom includes extensive alarm features, and you can even monitor your ponds and control your aerators remotely using an ordinary phone (cell)

  • OscarDad - Provides pond side display of pond and aerator status and control of aerator operation. OscarDad is optional and operates completely independently of OscarMom to give you the ultimate in reliability, redundancy and operational backup.

  • Aerator Control - There are a number of aerator control options with Oscar. They all however control the starting and stopping of aerators and monitor both the power availability to the aerator and the power usage (operation) of the aerator. The aerator controllers also provide ‘Smart’ features such as power shut down and sequencing when restored and ‘rollover’ to the next aerator when needed.

  • OscarBuoy - OscarBuoy- Wireless, solar powered D.O. Sensing buoy. These buoys can be placed anywhere in your ponds and are easily lifted over the nets when siening fish. Also, a selection of probes and probe types are available including dual (two) probe operation for ultimate reliability.

Configuration Options

There are a number of options that you can select when first acquiring an Oscar system. Remember however, that you can later add or change to other configurations. Oscar’s design is extremely flexible and upgradeable.

  • Monitor Only - This is the simplest and fastest installation package. With this option only an OscarMom home monitoring station is installed with a solar powered buoy in each pond.

  • Aerator Control - You can, at any time add in aerator control if it is not initially installed on your Oscar System.

  • OscarDad - Pond side monitoring and control is not required but it is highly recommended for maximum reliability, backup and cross checking as well as pond side convience and control.