There are many scientific, engineering, medical devices and instruments that use
the RS-232 (serial port) interface to send data to a computer for further
logging and analyzing. It works well when you can plug your device into your
computer with a serial data cable. But, what if you need to gather information
from remote devices that cannot be plugged into your PC directly? Even having a
device located in the next room can became a real problem. Needless to say, that
it is a BIG problem if you need to obtain data from a mobile instrument used to
make measurements in different locations in your city or even in a wider
area.
This is where ByteWedge Professional can help. In addition to the
normal RS-232 data processing operations, the program also allows you to
transfer data from remote devices across TCP/IP networks. Just plug a device
into a laptop connected to your local network or to the Internet and receive
data on your server as if it were directly connected to the server's serial
port. You can easily process data from multiple devices on the same server
saving the results into the same database.
Sometimes you cannot get your
laptop connected to a network. ByteWedge can help you in this case too.
ByteWedge comes with a freeware utility called Serial-File. This allows you to
save data from a device to your laptop disk.
The server where your copy of
ByteWedge professional is installed, will be able to read data from this file as
if it were a serial port.
ByteWedge Professional includes a vast range of
tools to process data from various devices. You can parse data on-the-fly, apply
filters and load the results into databases or other applications. The program
supports ODBC, OLE, DDE and other data interchange protocols. The program allows
you to receive data from up to 255 local or remote devices simultaneously. |
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