This product is a complete distributed control system. It is comprised of 4 control
systems of up to 100 microprocessor based interfaces and area controllers connected on a
custom high speed network capable of being over a mile in length. It also features a
variety of Windows based software tools.
Each of the 100 possible area controller nodes is capable of controlling a subnetwork
of 32 additional sub controllers. The maximum network system is up to 12,800 nodes.
Each controller, interface and sub controller can have a variety of I/O and data. The
system has a peer to peer architecture and any node is capable of accessing and using
information on any other node on the system.
On top of this hardware and firmware system is a complete Microsoft Windows based
configuration, control and monitoring package. The software is composed of a suite of
applications, controls and device drivers. The software was constructed using Microsoft
Visual C++ and a variety of device driver, help, debugging and configuration management
tools.
The core of the software system is an ODBC compliant database. The user interface
features a menu driven, interactive configuration tool, a variety of monitoring and
network applications comprising 100's of screens and dialogs. It also has a fully
integrated button by button context sensitive help system.
This was a two year development process involving imagic engineers, client engineers,
client marketing and the client management team. The resultant product serves as the
successful primary product offering of the client and is patented in the US and
internationally.
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