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If you're in a situation where you want to create a system which links sensors and instrumentation to a PC, but which will need to be flexible enough to cope with ongoing reconfigurations, it's essential that the software on the PC makes it easy to make those changes.
That's always been the strength of DASYLab, widely regarded as the best product in its class for a considerable time.
Setting up on-screen displays, controls, scaling and signal processing is simply a matter of dragging icons around the screen and connecting them. And whilst this simplicity makes DASYLab ideal for those without any PC programming experience, thousands of users with more than enough programming capability still love it for the speed with which systems can be set up and subsequently developed.
Like many good Windows programs, DASYLab's apparent simplicity hides some ingenious features, and many of the enhance-ments in the latest version, DASYLab 5.5, open up some exciting possibilities for many users.
Perhaps uppermost is the introduction of Datasocket technology, which allows information to be exchanged very easily with other applications, on networks or over the internet. This of course could be a remote installation of DASYLab, but it could equally as easily be any ActiveX control; it's all done through Microsoft's COM and DCOM standards.
There's support for OPC so data can be exchanged with any hardware using an OPC server, such as fieldbus instrumentation. And even more interestingly, a Datasocket ActiveX control could be embedded in a web page, so the data can be viewed remotely through a web browser.
Most excitingly of all, on an event, DASYLab 5.5 can initiate emails or even SMS calls to mobile phones. These can include data from the system, opening up the possibility of a remote monitoring system moving into an alarm setting and automatically calling a supervisor and displaying system readings on a mobile phone display. If that's got you thinking, now might be the time to get in touch with the Adept Scientific data acquisition team and discuss if DASYLab 5.5 could revolutionise your test and measurement monitoring...
New Features in DASYLab 5.5
- Datasocket technology enables data to be exchanged with other applications over a network - or the internet
- Event triggering can initiate data to be sent via email or to an SMS mobile phone
- Cycle buffer module enables large quantities of data before a trigger to be stored, as well as that afterwards
- PWM analysis to measure values from PWM waveforms, widely used in control systems
- ODBC module for creating database links
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