AEC FP1600 User Manual

TELELABS SCADA SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT - DESIGN STUDY Prepared for: Prof. James TrevelyanThe University of Western AustraliaDept of Mechanical &

10Output items are written on demand only when the BridgeVIEW Engine passes a newoutput value to the server.The update rates and deadband servers use

116. DATASOCKETAlthough a variety of different technologies exist today to share data betweenapplications, such as TCP/IP and DDE, most of these tools

12The FieldPoint software includes the Explorer configuration utility as well asBridgeVIEW server and LabVIEW VIs for easy integration into BridgeVIEW

13Telelabs applications will require that, on start-up, the system’s I/O modules power upwith user-specified configuration and output levels rather th

14response, but the FP-1600 remembers the commands sent to the missing I/O module.When a new I/O module is connected in place of the one that was remo

158. BASIC CONCEPTS BEHIND THE G PROGRAMMINGG is a programming language, much like various commercial C or BASIC developmentlanguages. However, G is d

16A wire is a data path between nodes. Wires are coloured according to the kind of dataeach wire carries. Blue wires carry integers, orange wires carr

17w Sequence structureSequence structure is a program control structure that executes its subdiagrams innumeric order with the number of the frame in

18w GraphsThe difference between a graph and a chart is that a graph plots data as a block,while a chart plots data point by point, or array by array

19callers and subVIs. Currently visible nodes can be searched in the Hierarchy window byname.As with other applications, Vis can be saved to a file in

2CONTENTS1. Introduction 32. BridgeVIEW Environment 63. BridgeVIEW Engine 64. Tags 75. Servers 95.1. Device servers 95.2. OPC servers 105.3. W

209. HUMAN MACHINE INTERFACEAn HMI is the interface through which an operator interacts with the BridgeVIEWsystem and with the outside environment, t

219.2. HMI G WizardThe HMI G Wizard provides an easy interface for generating repetitive pieces ofdiagram code. The HMI G Wizard can be an immense hel

22When the timeout input is left unwired, all Read Tag VIs read the BridgeVIEWdatabase immediately by default.Event-driven programming means the diagr

23Because Citadel allows simultaneous real-time access by multiple applications, theODBC Driver can retrieve data from the Citadel database even while

24An event history is a collection of all the alarms and events pertaining to tag values thathave occurred in the BridgeVIEW system since the Engine w

25_ H.323 gatekeeper support_ H.323 proxy/firewall support_ ITU T.120 data conferencing_ Audio codecs: G.711, G.723, G.728_ Video codecs: H.261 F

2614. MOTION CONTROL AND MACHINE VISIONThe ability of BridgeVIEW to connect to hardware directly from LabVIEW opens upthe whole range of devices, whic

2715. RECOMMENDATIONSUsing BridgeVIEW as the central server application gives maximum flexibility in thetypes of I/O that can be connected to, and in

28Fig. 2. Telelabs - functional arrangement. Remote or local user PC with access to the network LabVIEW executable pro

29In this scenario, there is no difference between the client application that runs locally onthe PC immediately adjacent to the experiment and the cl

31. INTRODUCTIONSince the inception of Internet there has been steady development of technologies forInternet-enabled instrumentation.Remote process m

30Microsoft has done an enormous amount of testing on Windows 2000, and suppliedindependent tests, which reveal that Windows 2000 is faster than Windo

4While custom developed software may have some benefits, the use of an industry testedand proven software platform minimises the problems commonly fac

5Fig.1. General configuration of Telelabs.

62. BRIDGEVIEW ENVIRONMENTBridgeVIEW combines high performance monitoring and control with wide range ofdata acquisition on the Windows NT/2000/9x ope

7updated. Along with tag values, the RTDB also stores status, date, time, and alarminformation.These tasks can be customized by configuring each tag w

8w General AttributesGeneral attributes include data type, maximum length for string and bit array tags,and the name, description, and the group of t

9The general configuration of all configured tags in the system can be viewed with theTag Browser. The Tag Browser is a useful tool for checking how a