CANARY SYSTEMS SPRING 2009 UPDATE

DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE FOR DEMANDING ENVIRONMENTS SINCE 1997

MLWeb: Web Data Access!
Get Your Data Anywhere

MLWeb: Web based data access!

MLWeb represents the latest advancement of our software system, it essentially consists of "bridging" software that interfaces the latest .NET web functionality from Microsoft with our MultiLoggerDB system. This provides a way for the end-users to manage their systems using MultiLogger, to automate the collection of data using the Agent feature and then to create and manage the database project using our standard MultiLoggerDB software components, including the Database Console and Insite.

MLWeb then interfaces the Windows Server machine with the database to provide the interface that the user has developed, including project views, sensor locations, current readings, and pre-programming outputs that include columnar reports, charts and Microsoft Excel based spreadsheets.

With an appropriate server and connectivity it allows for easy, secure, cost-effective web based data access deployment.

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Canary Systems Project Profiles, Spring 2009:

Project 20: Bridge Abutment Construction Monitoring

The current Point Marion Bridge was constructed in 1930 by the Pittsburgh Des Moines Steel Company. The bridge, spanning the Monongahela River near the Mason-Dixon Line, is also known as the Albert Gallatin Memorial Bridge, named after a Swiss immigrant who served his adopted country in public and private for nearly seven decades. An entrepreneur, politician, diplomat, financier, and scholar who was a major influence in the shaping of our early republic, Gallatin was instrumental in... more >>

Project 21: River Flow Monitoring

The Ben Smith Dam is located on the Assabet River in Maynard, Massachusetts. The Assabet River is located approximately twenty miles west of Boston. Nine dams are located along the thirty-two mile northeastern span of the river the largest being the Ben Smith Dam. It was built in the early 1900s by Armory Maynard to store the Assabet River waters for the town mill. The dam is approximately 51m long (170 feet) and 3m high (9.5 ft.), impounding a reservoir of approximately 18.75-acres. A 485m power canal and culvert leads to... more >>

Project 22: North Americas Largest Copper Mine

Gold prospectors came to Morenci, in Greenlee County, Arizona, in the 1860s but instead of gold found extensive copper deposits. Underground copper mining began in 1872 by the Detroit Copper Company, a venture financed by Phelps Dodge Corporation. In 1921 the assets of the Detroit Copper Company and nearby Arizona Copper Company were purchased by Phelps Dodge and consolidated under the Phelps Dodge name. In 1939 the underground mining operations were replaced with open-cut mining. The operation nearly doubled its production capacity during World War II at the urging of... more >>

PRODUCT NEWS:

We’ve been hard at work adding features to our software and improving their functionality and reliability (aka... “killing a few bugs”). A brief summary of these improvements:

MultiLogger

We are currently testing MultiLogger 5.0 which includes several important improvements including a completely rebuilt client/server architecture, data collection schedules for each logger node and a new “SoftDL” node which provides for developing automation scripts to turn your computer into a datalogger. Devices such as our VWDSP Interface or Campbells AVW200 can now be connected directly to your PC’s serial port (or networked using TCP/IP adaptors or wireless) Look for an announcement in the near future regarding this release!

Please also contact us if you would like to help with testing this release!

MLDBConsole

A number of important improvements have been implemented in recent months including an entirely new Groups View interface replacing the former Project View. This interface provides for organizing your data elements (instruments) in virtually any organization you’d like, including the ability to have elements in several groups. For example, a large dam monitoring project might organize automated and manual measurements by region, location or type.

Insite

The Groups View architecture has been implemented within Insite as well. Numerous forms including the Window List, Configure Elements and Configure Output Parameters form were modified to now support this functionality. Now it’s not just Data Elements that can be organized in logical groupings but really all elements of the database!

We added a fifth notification type call New Data. This provides for sending notification when new data for selected Data Elements are entered into the database, whether imported automatically from an automated system or whether entered manually. For example, when a field technician enters a new reading the New Data notification can then automatically send the specified report, chart or spreadsheet to configured recipients.

We also added a Chart Templates form. With this functionality a chart template can be configured and then shared between multiple charts. Aspects of the chart presentation, for example the background color, can be changed in just the template and will be automatically applied to all charts using that template. This will save a great deal of time in managing the format of charts for large projects in particular.

MLWeb

We added support for the Groups View architecture so for example to find the specific window in the Views page simply browse to the Group where that view resides. Groups without views aren’t shown in the control. Likewise, to find Data Elements for manual data entry, you simply browse to the Group that has been created for those elements.

A new page was added for viewing the New Data events. This includes viewing the output that was created for the event and acknowledging/deleting them.

You can visit our MLWeb working site demo at www.geomonitoring.com

Conference News

It was great meeting a number of our customers and prospective customers at our exhibition table at the recent Geotechnical Instrumentation course sponsored by John Dunnicliff in Cocoa Beach, Florida. Thanks for stopping by!

Support News

We continue to enhance our software and systems support with documentation and tools from third-party sources. In recent months we completed the following:

Application Note: Using the Lantronix UDS-1100 Device Server

MultiLogger Application Note: Call-Back Configuration for the CR800/CR1000

MultiLogger Application Note: Defining Custom Processing for CR800/CR1000 channels

FAQ: What is Required to run MultiLogger on Windows Vista?

Database Application Note: MLDB Server Maintenance Procedures

Our 2009 Price List is updated:

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Our 2009 Software Brochure is now available: