System Integration
Many manufacturing facilities are faced with the task of presenting critical safety, production and quality information from multiple sources onto large LED displays. Until now this meant having to deal with custom protocols, complicated communication networks and non-user friendly software. Maintaining and supporting these multiple networks have proven to be very cumbersome and time consuming. The AlphaVision PC product line was designed with these concerns in mind. Based on Internet Technology, the TCP/IP physical connection with Ethernet integrates easily into your existing LAN infrastructure. Our ActiveX component easily integrates into your existing HMI's.
Software Interface
The AlphaVision PC can be easily programmed using our standard AlphaVision PC ActiveX software package. With the available ActiveX components, the AlphaVision PC can connect to any existing operating system running an HMI program that acts as an ActiveX container. In addition to HMI's, Microsoft's Visual Basic, Visual C++, Excel, Work and more are also directly portable to the AlphaVision PC family. Our "Screen Capture" software interface acts as an ActiveX component, which runs with your existing ActiveX container. Using this architecture, programming screen changes can be configured as "event based" which means enhanced serial traffic throughout and no redevelopment of existing logic or control systems.
This simple but flexible software interface allos for easy IP addressing and can pass data from Microsoft Excel, data from ODBC sources, web browsers as well as audio files. Whatever data your existing HMI can produce can be directly ported to the AlphaVision PC regardless of the file type. Therefore through the use of screen capture technology, any HTML, JAVA, JPEG, GIF, DOC, XLS or other file formats are all accepted through our ActiveX component.
For those programmers that require more specific screen definitions and do not wish to capture an existing HMI screen, another ActiveX component using Microsoft's "Picture Box" technology is available. With the ActiveX component, you can develop customer screens using geographic shapes, grids, graphs and of course, alphanumeric text.
Also available is a Software Developer's Kit for those who need complete control of the sign's operation.
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