HBM has introduced the recently acquired SoMat eDAQ and eDAQlite data acquisition systems. SoMat systems have been leaders in field data acquisition for over 25 years servicing Fortune 500 companies in the automotive, off-highway, aerospace and defence industries. Engineered for stand-alone testing in the harshest of environments, eDAQ systems provide signal conditioning and thecapacity to perform a broad range of on-board data processing, triggering and complex mathematical computations. They are fully sealed from the elements yet modular and flexible with support for a wide range of vehicle bus and GPS options.
eDAQ systems use standard Ethernet communications, and host their own web servers with configurable IP addresses. No software is required to start/stop test or upload data. This combination allows the eDAQ to effortlessly communicate through wireless WWAN modems, bypassing corporate firewalls giving users access to their system anywhere in the world.
SoMat systems are simple to use, enabling engineers to overcome complex engineering design challenges and gain customer usage knowledge. Data collected from eDAQ systems help customers eliminate unforeseen failures by measuring durability, performance and operational data from which intelligent business decisions can be made that improve product life performance and reduce costs.
* HBM has released version 6.0 of its Perception data acquisition software. Perception integrates multi-platform hardware control, live display, data acquisition, review, analysis, report generation and data export in one package. It has been designed from basic principles ensuring that it is easy to use while allowing control of both small and large-scale systems.
This latest version adds live FFT capabilities to the HBM Genesis HighSpeed product family, allowing users to visualize signals simultaneously both in the time and the frequency domain. Because it is PC-based, it is usable with any Perception-controlled DAQ system, such as the portable GEN5i, GEN7t or GEN16t rack mainframes, and LIBERTY.
FFT is particularly useful, especially for customers that are just starting out in frequency domain analysis, because of its ease of use and high flexibility. For example, FFT can be enabled for transferring signals currently shown in the time domain to the frequency domain with a single click. The basic FFT option allows a choice of window lengths of up to 1 million samples, four different weighting filters, and analysis functions such as FFT Spectrum, Auto Power Spectrum or Power Spectral Density. For critical settings the software includes readily-accessible help ensuring users make the right choice for the best results.
Perception also provides powerful customization tools. Customer-specific plug-ins created with the Customer Software Interface (CSI) are fully integrated in the Perception operator interface so that user-specific and automated tasks can be included in the workflow. Close integration with Microsoft Office allows the user to easily transfer tables, displays and results into Word or Excel.
HBM's StatStream technology allows large data sets – even with Gigabytes of data – to be handled, reviewed and analyzed in just a few seconds. With StatStream, several parallel, reduced data streams are produced in real-time during the measurement, and saved with the raw data. If, for example, a 10-Gigabyte data set is displayed on-screen, this display is then generated from a reduced data set.
Perception is HBM´s high-end software to control the Genesis HighSpeed product family. This ranges from rugged data acquisition systems with sample rates of 100 kS/s to the top-end GEN DAQ series with sample rates up to 100 MS/s.