Our client develops applications for asset monitoring, using unique methods of data processing to identify potential problems in motors, pumps and fans before they cause major issues.
They had been working hard developing the software and hardware to make this project work, but needed help to broadcast this data across a network.
Some of the technologies they were using were reasonably standard (SQL) and widely supported, however OPC has some well documented issues when trying to distribute onto remote networks.
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We were able to design and develop a system which allowed our customer to concentrate on their application and leave the design of a networked "viewer" application to us.
We broke out the data from OPC and SQL into a server side application. Due to the extreme potential size of the data domain, it was not possible to read and broadcast all of the data all of the time. We developed a neat solution using our own plugin server module which allowed us to control the extra server load, and limit network traffic to a reasonable level.
The client side of this application was built to the customer's specification, where the scope and functionality were defined but the method of implementation was not.
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