Sensor Technology has used National Instruments' LabVIEW graphical
programming environment to create a virtual instrumentation display to
show the output from its Torqsense non-contact shaft torque sensor. The
program, TorqView version 2, has fully configurable and scalable graphics
modules that enable various parameters, such as torque and shaft speed,
to be displayed via digital readouts, analogue dials or bar graphs.
In addition to the display capability, TorqView 2 can log peak values,
time-sequenced and time-stamped values, and store them in text files or
spreadsheets for later analysis. The software also features an
auto-scaling function that enables it to recognise individual transducers
by reading their serial numbers, or even confirm when they were last
calibrated.