DASYLab phones home....
Point-and-Click Data Acquisition Software now
enabled for Remote Communication
The latest version of DASYLab data acquisition
software not only lets users monitor test stands,
development rigs and processes on screen, it also
signals alerts to pre-defined events remotely,
via networks, the Web, email or SMS-enabled mobile phones.
With its intuitive point-and-click interface, DASYLab makes it easy to
set up, visualise and document data acquisition applications without
programming or command-line instructions.
DASYLab - point-and-click software for applications that link sensors
and instrumentation to a PC - is flexible enough to cope with complex
data acquisition set-ups and ongoing reconfigurations. Yet it requires
no programming skills: setting up on-screen displays and controls,
triggering and signal processing is simply a matter of dragging icons
into place and connecting them with a mouse click.
The latest version of the software, DASYLab 5.5, adds a number of new
features and functions that extend DASYLab’s ability to manage data
acquisition scenarios.
Much enhanced remote communication capabilities mean that
DASYLab 5.5 can, on a pre-defined event, be set up to initiate emails
or even SMS (Short Message Service) messages to mobile phones.
Messages can incorporate relevant data from the system, opening up
the possibility of remote monitoring. The trigger event can be an alarm
setting, which automatically alerts a supervisor.
DASYLab 5.5 implements DataSocket technology, which allows
information to be exchanged very easily with other applications, over
networks, intranets or the internet. DASYLab’s DataSocket Import and
Export Modules communicate with any device or data source using the
OPC (OLE for Process Control) server protocol, an increasingly
common standard for measurement and automation devices, fieldbus
instrumentation, data acquisition systems and distributed systems.
This technology is based on Microsoft's ActiveX controls, which can
also be embedded in a web page so that DASYLab data can be viewed
remotely through a web browser.
Other new features in DASYLab 5.5 include a cycle buffer module to
store large quantities of data either side of a trigger event; pulse-width-
modulated (PWM) analysis to measure values from PWM waveforms;
an open database connectivity (ODBC) module for creating database
links; event-driven auto-zero; and more.
Designed for industrial research and scientific laboratories, DASYLab is
probably the world's easiest-to-use data acquisition package. Though
its simplicity makes DASYLab ideal for those with no PC programming
experience, users who do have programming skills will benefit from
the speed with which systems can be set up and subsequently
developed. It supports a wide range of data acquisition hardware from
all leading manufacturers.
DASYLab includes a wide range of function blocks - analogue outputs
and inputs, digital I/Os, user-definable triggers, function generators,
filters, signal adaption, virtual instruments and analysers, and
mathematical, statistical and logical operations - as well as output
modules to record events to file and a standard DDE output to
communicate with other programs. Function blocks can be combined
in almost unlimited ways, within worksheets of any size, to allow real-
time data analysis of even the most complex systems. Users can zoom
in on a specific event or data point, scroll back to study historical
trends and monitor events as they happen.
For users needing even more functionality, an extended edition of
DASYLab is available. The additional modules include FFT/spectral
analysis; data windowing; digital filter; regression; correlation; data
backup; and an event-driven action module.
DASYLab is supplied and supported in the UK by Adept Scientific plc,
6 Business Centre West, Avenue One, Letchworth, Herts SG6 2HB;
telephone (01462) 480055, fax (01462) 480213,
email: daq@adeptscience.co.uk; or see Adept’s World Wide Web site at
http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/.
DASYLab can also be purchased on-line from Adept Scientific’s
WebStore at http://www.adeptstore.co.uk/.
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June 2000