Instrument driver allows interface with sensors
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Sep 18, 2008
National Instruments has released an instrument driver that allows users of NI Labview to interface with environmental monitoring sensors that communicate via SDI-12.
SDI-12 is a serial-based communication protocol optimised for battery-powered intelligent sensors.
NI Labview is a graphical system design platform.
With NI Labview SDI-12 Application Programming Interface (API) software, researchers, engineers and scientists can easily acquire measurements such as turbidity, dissolved oxygen, tank level, soil pH, conductivity and other critical environmental sensor measurements.
The SDI-12 protocol makes it possible to communicate with a wide variety of sensors and recorders that are most commonly used in environmental data acquisition applications such as climate change tracking, water quality and testing, ecological research, soil monitoring, agriculture and weather analysis.
Using the Labview SDI-12 API, researchers, engineers and scientists can connect traditional environmental data with the wide variety of I/O that works with Labview, making it a comprehensive and flexible environmental data-logging solution.
The Labview SDI-12 API, combined with an RS232 to SDI-12 converter and any computer or NI programmable automation controller that includes a serial port, can be used to make environmental measurements in a laboratory setting or deploy stand-alone systems into remote locations.
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