NI debuts WiFi DAQ systems
-- Test & Measurement World, 9/1/2008
To complement the new wireless data-acquisition control capabilities of LabView 8.6, National Instruments has debuted 10 WiFi and Ethernet data-acquisition devices. The new devices include built-in signal conditioning and direct sensor connectivity for electrical, physical, mechanical, and acoustic signals. They can stream 24-bit-wide data on each of four channels at rates from 14 samples/s for a thermocouple application to more than 50 ksamples/s for integrated electronics piezoelectric (IEPE) accelerometer and microphone applications.
The WiFi and Ethernet devices are shipped with NI-DAQmx driver software and NI LabView SignalExpress LE, an interactive datalogging software tool for acquiring, analyzing, and presenting data without any programming. The NI-DAQmx driver delivers features such as the configuration-based NI DAQ Assistant with code generation for both LabView and text-based languages, it offers more than 3000 measurement examples and supports device simulation, and it is compatible with LabView, ANSI C/C++, C#, Visual Basic .NET, and Visual Basic 6.0.
Base prices: WiFi devices—$699; wired Ethernet devices—$599. National Instruments, www.ni.com.
