Instrumentation Boards

LD100 Instrumentation Board: EASIEST WAY TO NETWORKED INSTRUMENTATION AND CONTROL

We give our users an easy to use and inexpensive set of hardware and software tools to build their own measurement and control systems.

What is the LD100 Board?

  • smart sensor node board supporting many commercial sensors (current list)
  • enables distributed measurement & control
  • can expand to unlimited nodes
  • comes with user application software
  • usable out of the box
  • no programming required (but you can, if you want)
  • network/cloud connected
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LD100 Board

LD100 is a network connected instrumentation board. It has a multiple interfaces to connect to breakout boards and sensors. Full details can be found here.

Our aim is to provide the software and hardware with support for hundreds of sensors and signal processing breakout boards available in the market. The list of sensors we support is already substantial and we add new devices on an ongoing basis.

For the basic user, no user programming is required. Just plug in and be operational in minutes. Supported sensor drivers are built into the user application which runs on a host such as a PC. Sensors that are plugged in are user selectable from the GUI and immediately usable.

























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The LD100 provides:





    

  • Connectivity interfaces: Ethernet 10/100, USB, WiFi with optional module.
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  • Peripheral I/O: serial, i2c, SPI, ADC, GPIO, Frequency counter, PWM.
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  • Serial over LAN: Serial to Network enables serial devices to connect to the network. Extend the life and utility of existing serial devices. (i.e. old instruments with a serial interface)
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  • LAN traffic secured with encryption. Network and web wide secure access.
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  • Provides 3.3V power to connected devices.
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  • Powered from: Power over Ethernet (PoE), or USB
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  • Fully isolated Power over Ethernet provides 1500 VAC galvanic isolation and reduced noise. Eliminates the cost and danger of wiring AC power to each monitored point. Can be located up to 300 ft away in unprotected environment (i.e. industrial, farm environments). Increased protection from power outages because a single UPS can provide backup power to all connected devices. Conversely each node can be powered off individually. In wired mode, can be located wherever a LAN cable can be run.
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  • Auto-configuring via DHCP: no need to configure each node when network equipment is changed or updated. Install and forget.
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  • Can be directly attached and powered from a PC over USB.
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  • No user programming necessary. Plug in and be operational with the PC GUI application (ihtool) immediately.
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  • Pre-programmed with support for sensor boards from a multitude of vendors (i.e. Sparkfun, Adafruit, Atlas Scientific). New devices added regularly.
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  • PC and embedded Linux applications provide IoT gateway facility to local and remote clients over cloud services. See our IoT page.
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  • High level language programmable for users to write their display, logging, control client applications without having to deal with low level hardware details. Run on any networked platform.
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  • Control applications can be run on our embedded Linux board (ihserver) allowing a site setup that is self contained.
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  • Unlimited number of boards can be networked and controlled.
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Full details can be found here.