Synchronized Clocks & Message Displays

Keep your organization running in sync. Ensure all of the display clocks in your building show the exact same time and automatically update twice a year for daylight saving time.

What is a Synchronized Clock System?

In a synchronized clock system, the master clock maintains accurate time from either an NTP server (ie NRC) or GPS. When the master clock has received the correct time from either source, the time is then distributed to all secondary clocks in the system. The signal is sent to the clocks multiple times per day, ensuring that all clocks stay synchronized to the second.

Industrial & Manufacturing

Service Providers

Public Safety & Government

Transportation

Enterprise & Financial Services

Healthcare

Education & Research

Benefits of Synchronized Clock Systems

Everyone in the facility is on the same time
Eliminate maintenance staff correcting for daylight saving time twice a year
Clocks re-adjust to the correct time after a power failure
MasterClock can also schedule ringing of bells, turning on heating/air conditioning at predetermined times
Using the added features like count up and countdown allows you to show elapsed time between breaks, shifts, for “Code Blue” in hospitals

Sapling provides a wide range of synchronized clock systems, which include Wireless Clocks, IP Clocks, Wired Clocks, and TalkBack Wireless Clock Systems.

Clocks are available in both digital and analog designs with many customization options and sizes available. In addition to tradition clock sizes, Sapling offers large clocks for outdoor and specialized applications.

Novanex specializes in Power over Ethernet (PoE) clocks and provides both analog and digital options.

With a focus on cost effective solutions, Novanex POE Clocks are easy to install, maintain, and relocate. Novanex’s POE clocks are trusted to keep accurate, synchronized time in schools, major universities, hospitals, government offices, manufacturing facilities, contact centers, and corporate environments

Designed and manufactured in France, Bodet clocks have been widely recognised in the sectors of education, transport (airport and railway), healthcare, finance and industry, for their quality as well as their time precision.

With more than 40 years experience, Bodet provides a wide range of analogue clocks, LCD clocks and LED clocks. All clocks are synchronised by a master clock in order to ensure an accurate and identical time display across an entire site.

Time Display FAQ

What is NTP “Network Time Protocol?

Network Time Protocol (NTP) is a UDP protocol that provides a reliable way of transmitting and receiving the time over TCP/IP networks. It has become the de facto standard for synchronizing Internet computers and other networked devices to Universal Coordinated Time (UTC). The Internet Engineering Task Force formalized NTP in RFC 1305.

What is SNTP? “Simple Network Time Protocol”

Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) is a simplified version of NTP, which is used in cases where a full implementation of NTP is not required. Because SNTP uses the same packet format as NTP, SNTP clients can utilize NTP servers. (SNTP is defined in RFCs 1361,2030 & 4330.)

NCCM component of a network management systems should ease the task of managing changes in network configuration, allow you to discover all the network elements, giving you advanced inventory reports and topology diagrams, backup the configuration of each device, check the policy and the compliance for each device.

What is Power over Ethernet “POE”

Power over Ethernet (PoE) is a standard-based technology for safe delivery of data and power to remote devices over Cat 5e or Cat 6 copper cabling. So both Power and Data can co-exist on the same copper conductors. This allows you to install an end-device where there is no local power.

Benefits of PoE

Cost Savings:

No need to install power outlets.
No need to hire a licensed electrician to install.
Reduce cabling cost.
Use existing Cat5/Cat6 cable already installed in buildings.

Safety

Designed to protect equipment from electrical overload under-powering or incorrect installation.
If there is damage to a cable, the power is stopped – no sparking or fires.

Flexibility

Install end-device where there is no local power.
Easily install devices wherever there is an ethernet cable.

Functionality

Can be backed up by an uninterruptable power supply (UPS).

Cost Savings using a Synchronized Display Clocks

Anytime there are multiple shift changes and alternating break times throughout any given workday, you need to coordinate your employees, and everyone is on the same time. Synchronized clocks allow everyone to see the same time and you can add features like a countdown timer between shift changes and/or break times, which can keep employees aware of the elapsed time throughout the day.

What are your cost savings?

A 1,000 person company saving 10 minutes per employee per day can realize over 1 million dollars in saving per year.

Other Savings

Clocks adjust automatically for Daylight Savings Time
Clocks re-adjust automatically after a power outage

What’s an Appropriate NTP Architecture for PoE Clocks?

As a general rule, it’s wise to have an internal time server on your network to support your PoE clocks. This is particularly true if you are deploying a number of PoE clocks. Here are some reasons why this is important:

If you have a large number of clocks independently referencing the same external time server, you may possibly run afoul of the external time server’s network access policy (by accessing the time server more frequently than its open access policy allows).
An internal time server reduces Internet traffic and helps secure timekeeping on the network.
Secure timekeeping on the network is important because opening your network to NTP (port 123) traffic allows for the possibility of these types of hacker intrusions:
Sending too much data in the NTP packet, thus causing the NTP service to become overloaded and resulting in a denial of time services attack.
Sending specially constructed packets that essentially “take over” machines within your network (by using the same privileges as the NTP service running on those machines) and, in so doing, allowing the intruder to mask the break-in by resetting the time on those machines, making it impossible to effectively reconstruct the exact sequence of events that lead to the break-in.
By deploying your own internal time server, which alone references an external stratum 0 time source like GPS, you can construct the most robust form of NTP architecture for the PoE clocks on your network. You can also minimize the amount of network management required to accomplish the goal of secure and accurate timekeeping.

Precision Time Solutions

GPS and terrestrial-based Precision time sources for nanosecond level time accuracy providing NTP and PTP time. From 911 to network orchestration and power generation control – precision time solutions are in use across all major industries and keep technologies running in sync.