ICE-flow open: it integrates data from legacy systems, measurement technology from other vendors, and state-of-the-art instrumentation from our own subsidiary, SoMat.
ICE-flow imports data from a variety of sources: recorders, analyzers, and dedicated instruments including the old field-testing workhorse, the MEGADAC. Data in any format, including can be imported and stored in their original format, or converted into the ICE-flow framework. The latter is optimized for large multichannel datasets and allows translation back and forth between formats. You can then easily compare legacy data with those from new measurement campaigns, create new data fields to flesh out the information, export into other formats and so on. Such openness ensures that your legacy data can remain active for years to come.
Our modular eDAQ systems are tightly integrated into ICE-flow. The units have all the built-in conditioning for a wide range of transducers, they also support “smart” transducers that automatically inform the system of their calibration values, expiry dates and location. They can even link to the Global Positioning System several times a second to pinpoint the measurements to a few meters anywhere on the earth–and plug into the Vehicle Bus so important parameters such as gear and engine speed can be easily collected. Powered from the vehicle, eDAQ can collect hundreds of channels of data and, with small footprints and ability to withstand sustained vibration – even immersion in water – they can be configured to form the ideal field measurement system.
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ICE-flow makes use of satellite and Internet technologies so it’s easy to set up and operate several testing regimes remotely–all of which avoids the cost of engineers having to visit each unit in person. The engineer at base simply creates a new project then uploads a given test setup to the vehicle. In a basic “timed report” mode, the measurement system would wake up at regular intervals, perform a previously defined measurement routine, and transmit the results back to the ICE-flow server. These results can be the raw data, or an intelligently compressed summary, such as a rainflow analysis. “Reports on demand” are similar in principle; the engineer triggers a new measurement sequence against an existing or new set of test parameters. ICE-flow will automatically log the incoming data and announce their arrival by an SMS text or e-mail message to all parties with a declared interest.
Next stage in the process: Validating the data
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