Measurement Studio 8.1 improves remote control and monitoring
Posted to News on 7th Dec 2006, 19:24

Measurement Studio 8.1 improves remote control and monitoring

National Instruments is releasing NI Measurement Studio 8.1, a comprehensive suite of class libraries and user interface controls for test, measurement and automation applications built using Microsoft Visual Studio. Measurement Studio 8.1 simplifies and accelerates remote monitoring and control with new network variables that help engineers communicate between Microsoft Windows or web-based applications and remote test machines. Measurement Studio 8.1 also introduces new user interface controls and extended graph functionality to help engineers better inspect acquired data.

Measurement Studio 8.1 improves remote control and monitoring

Engineers can combine new network variables featured in Measurement Studio 8.1 with Microsoft ASP.NET Web Forms controls originally introduced in Measurement Studio 8.0 to extend remote monitoring and control capabilities. ASP.NET controls give engineers the infrastructure to create dynamic web pages that they can view from web-enabled devices such as PDAs, smart phones and Linux, Mac OS or Microsoft Windows machines. Network variables publish or subscribe to measurement data acquired from remote systems designed in Microsoft Visual Basic 2005, Microsoft Visual C# 2005, National Instruments LabWindows/CVI or NI LabVIEW. This combination gives engineers the power to create web interfaces for real-time or Windows distributed test systems.

Jay Roxe, Group Product Manager in the Developer Division at Microsoft Corporation, states: "With Measurement Studio 8.1, National Instruments gives engineers the technology to create distributed applications faster and easier than ever. The combination of network variables in Measurement Studio and the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 helps engineers create distributed applications that connect manufacturing and engineering business units to management systems around the world."

Measurement Studio 8.1 also benefits from an enhanced user interface to help engineers better acquire, analyse and present their measurement data. The new interactive run-time controls give engineers the option to modify control settings while their applications are running, making it easy for them to customise their user experiences and enhance their interactions with their applications. In addition, Measurement Studio 8.1 delivers enhancements such as error bands on the Microsoft .NET Framework-based graphs and the ability to add cursors, annotations and tooltips to the Complex Graph to help engineers improve the documentation and visual inspection of their data.

Measurement Studio is claimed to dramatically reduce application development time by giving engineers a single environment for creating test, measurement and automation applications in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 and Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 and integrating them with a wide variety of I/O.

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