Data Acquisition Idea Exchange

Would like to be able to collect a couple channels of analog inputs to the iPad.  This is nice but I need a minimum of 2 analog inputs and I would rather have NI:  http://www.oscium.com/

Response from coorporate:

"We don't currently have anything that would meet the customer's requirement of being able to plug in directly into the iPad for data acquisition.

I don't believe that the iPad supports Silverlight which is a framework developed by Microsoft.  Also, wireless DAQ has to communicate with a host running DAQmx, so the customer would still need a 2nd computer even if using wireless DAQ.

If you want to connect data acquisition hardware (of any form-factor) to a machine running LabVIEW and DAQmx,  then use LabVIEW Web Services to publish the front panel to the web and view/control it from his iPad.

We do have several USB products that will work with Windows-based netbooks that could be an alternative solution if topic is open to a non-Apple platform.  For example, the 5132/5133 are bus-powered digitizers with much higher sample rate, bandwidth, and buffer size compared to the Oscium device.  However, the price is also quite a bit higher."

I recently had a customer offer the suggestion to expand the support for the USB-8451 to include a coding environment that includes .NET. Currently the only supported development environments are:

LabVIEW™ 8.5, 8.6, LabVIEW 2009 (32-bit), and LabVIEW 2010 (32-bit)
LabWindows™/CVI™ 8.0 (or newer)
Microsoft Visual C/C++ 6.0

I just wanted to share this with the community.

Currently, DSA devices that use voltage excitation have no method to provide that excitation to a particular device within test panels. The only method to do this would be to create a task in Measurement and Automation Explorer which takes much more time that doing a simple test panels test. This should be a fairly simple addition to the test panels user interface. One could simply have a box to check if they require excitation, and a control to determine the voltage level to provide to the DUT. They currently have this for IEPE devices, and it makes sense that voltage excitation should be the same.

I am not an electircal engineer, so I have no idea if there is some reason this has not been implemented in exiting versions of teh cDAQ chassis.  But there are a whole host of applications where a user wants to do Hardware timed digital output to different channels using DIFFERENT time bases.  It would be nice to have more than one DO timing engine available.  I would love to see that in future versions of the cDAQ chassis.

Thanks

Matt

If NI already has the product, please let me know. I need it in my project. If otherwise, I would like to suggest NI to develope one based its NI-9234 and WLS-9163. It can be readily developed by just remove three channels of the NI-9234 and make a smaller version of WLS-9163 for one channel. I would like the product be one unit to achieve a small size. The one channel wireless data aquisition module will have two imporatnt advantages: 1) much smaller size, therefore can be fit into difficult locations; 2) much lower power consumption, therefore can make much longer recording. These two advantages are essential for wireless measurement, thus the product will have good market potential.