
Using with Campbell Scientific Dataloggers
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on” data connections, e.g. with smart phones. This technology offers many
potential advances in remote telemetry. These include:
Fast connection time compared to landline modem – as fast as a few
seconds
Lower cost of data transfer
Always on connection – if your system has the power to keep a
modem powered all the time then it is possible to set-up a system
that is “always-on” which can be connected from anywhere on the
net at any time
Higher speed data transfer from the data logger back to the PC
Easy access from anywhere in the world
Alternative ways of accessing data in the data logger due to it being
connected to an IP network.
Those alternative ways include:
Direct Loggernet IP Pakbus communications
Supports a telnet connection (like the serial terminal mode),
including talk-through modes to serial sensors connected to the data
logger.
Supports Modbus and DNP3 over IP
Supports serving webpages – which are user defined
Supports requesting data with http commands
Supports acting as an ftp (file) server.
Plus, under program control:
Can send email messages (emailsend)
Can send files by ftp (ftpclient)
Can synchronise the data logger clock to Internet time
(networktimeprotocol).
Can send data to other loggers via IP (Send/Get variables, files and
data)
Can do a normal callback to a Loggernet server (send variables)
Can do a one way transmission to Loggernet or another logger
(Senddata)
Can open virtual serial ports to other dataloggers or sensors via the
IP network.
Only standard Pakbus communication with Loggernet is
possible if using the TCP/IP function built into the modem.
The other advanced communications options require a data
logger capable of running its own TCP/IP “stack”. Those
loggers currently include the CR6, CR300, CR800 series,
CR1000 and CR3000 dataloggers.
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