Remote Monitoring & Control
Remote monitoring and control encompasses many different things when applied to a measurement and automation system. These include:
- Remote viewing of measurement data via a web interface
- Remote operation of an automation system via a web interface
- The incorporation of wireless networks and devices as part of the system
- Interfacing to standard telephone and telecommunications systems
ICON Technologies can include any mix of these functions in your measurement and automation system.
Web-Based Interfaces and Support For Other Internet Services and Protocols
Our core LabVIEW software development environment includes high-level support for the creation of remote web-based interfaces for both data viewing and control. Whether your LabVIEW application is running on a PC, or on a real-time PAC platform, if you can connect to it over the web, ICON Technologies can give you viewing or control access over the web!
If your measurement and automation application needs a deeper level of web integration than just a remote interface, we can provide LabVIEW applications that run as web services, publish data to standard web servers, generate html or xml reports, and include support for FTP, Telnet and many other web tools and protocols.
Wireless Networks and Devices
ICON Technologies recommends the WLS range of Wi-Fi DAQ devices from National Instruments for a wide range of wireless data acquisition tasks, from small stand-alone units to large scale distributed systems.
We can also integrate any third party wireless device that communicates via a standard, or otherwise published, protocol.
Interfacing to Telephone/Telecommunications Systems
ICON Technologies have created a number of custom measurement applications that interface to standard telecommunication systems including landline telephones, the GSM network, and satellite-based systems such as Iridium.
Real-World Applications
To see details of relevant projects go to the Projects Page, and select "Remote Monitoring & Control" from the "Project Type" popup menu.
Note: Web-based interfaces and wireless networks are inherently less secure than localised interfaces and hard-wired networks. All the relevant National Instruments hardware and software tools include support for industry-standard protocols for encrypting data, and for controlling acccess to network devices. However ICON Technologies recommend that these local security measures should normally be supported by system level processes and strategies for securing network access and protecting data.
