Exele Newsletter October 2014
ARTICLE
Big Data on Small Screens?
How do we make something understandable, useful, and powerful on a screen with much less real estate? It’s an interesting challenge and one that we had to apply ourselves to in order to build the TopView Mobile Web App (“MWA”).
PRODUCT RELEASE
TopView 6.19
Alarm Management and Alarm Notification Software for OPC/SCADA, OSIsoft PI, Canary Labs, SQL, and PerfMon
- Active Directory user support (phone, email)
TopView Contacts can now be linked to Active Directory users. - Remote Viewer: Unified View
A new ALL node provides a single view across multiple TopView Engines. - Mobile Web App: updated UI
The visual designation of alarms and unacknowledged items has been updated and custom “Alarm labels” are now integrated - Audit and Change Log to SQL Table
A new option allows the configuration backup and change details to be stored in SQL Server - Configurator: simplified upgrades
Multiple TopView configurations and Services can now be ungraded with a single click
PRODUCT RELEASE
OPCcalc and EDICTvb 4.1
Advanced Process Calculation Engines for OPC and PI
- In-line user functions
Embed user-functions within equation libraries - Edit global user functions without installing Visual Studio
Global user functions can now be edited in the Equation Editor - Updated Visual Studio and .Net support
Calculation libraries can now be built using .Net Framework 2.0 through 4.5.1, and Visual Studio 2005 through 2013 - Recalculation update
New write options for recalculation
APPLICATION STORY
Exele TopView Assits Power Load Balancing
ARTICLE
Balancing the supply and demand of electricity is a dynamic challenge and a mandatory requirement for electricity providers on the grid. In the UK, Endeco Technologies provides CashBack from National Grid and energy savings from energy bill optimisation. EXELE TopView alarm monitoring and notification software is used as a user facing tool in the Network Operations Centre for recognizing and acknowledging when faults and events in the system are detected.
TECH TIP
Using a Lookup Table for Alarm Limits
Setting different alarm limits based on conditions
“Our alarm limit changes based on the current temperature reading. Is there a way to dynamically change the alarm limit in TopView?”
Yes. You can do this with TopView Logic Functions.
Learn more…
FUN VIDEO
Hiding Objects with Lenses
‘Cloaking’ device uses ordinary lenses to hide objects across range of angles. Scientists have recently developed several ways—some simple and some involving new technologies—to hide objects from view.”