Data Acquisition & Analysis
Ready-to-run data acquisition software and hardware to conduct data analysis and management. Everything from DAQ sensors to data logging and analysis systems.
HBK LAN-XI Data Acquisition System is highly flexible due to its modularity. These individual modules can be collected or distributed at will, allowing diverse parts of an organisation to each use some modules, and then combine them for larger tests whenever necessary.
The GPS time stamping capability built into the LAN-XI system adds another string to its bow, giving a highly accurate time signal that allows modules to be distributed far and wide, and still achieve perfect sample synchronicity. This means testers can have several, completely detached acquisition stations that each record their data to the same absolute time, so the data can be seamlessly synchronized later.
Data merging takes place at a central station, and for very large distances this can take place via WiFi transmission. Yet such a system doesn’t depend on perfect WiFi connectivity, or even consistent connectivity. Because the data is independently recorded at each station, and the GPS timecode is stamped into the data, these independent data sets can be merged at any time, in a post-processing environment like PULSE / BK Connect. The system will normally perform this immediately (and automatically), but when that is not possible for connectivity reasons it will simply do it later, when the connection is re-established.
Test control is also centralized in a control room from where all of the independent acquisition stations are operated – wirelessly or not – and where personnel are safe from loud noise events like sonic booms. Here, testers can start and stop measurements, and even live stream some channels to monitor actual measurements.
From this central station, the controller can remotely check the whole system. With a press of a single button, the automated calibration feature sends a signal out to every transducer in the network, to check all connections are working, and all microphones are calibrated properly. On large systems spread out over a wide area, this feature saves a huge amount of time on individually checking microphones.
The rock-steady, absolute time base provided by GPS also allows large systems to be paired, to overcome any data throughput issues. All data acquisition systems have a limit to the density of data they can handle, but by pairing completely separate systems (and then synchronizing the data), higher channel counts and bandwidths are easy to achieve.
With essentially two separate systems, data can still be harvested regardless of the factors that limit each independent system, such as computer processing capacity. Critically though, the data merging post-measurement is straightforward and automated in our data analysis software.
Ready-to-run data acquisition software and hardware to conduct data analysis and management. Everything from DAQ sensors to data logging and analysis systems.
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