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Key Words: Cloud Instrument, Widget Instrument, Digital Sensor Frame, Temperature Avatar, web feed, Web Instrument. Any media site that allows visitors to post HTML/JAVA scripts is a free Web Instrument Builder environment for sensor measurements. You can build your web based instrument for free at blogspot.com or lava.org, or any other web or media site, by using sensor avatars which are representations of sensors as web objects. The Widget Instrument, Digital Sensor Frame, and Temperature Avatar seen at http://www.tag4m.com/ are examples of such objects. The Widget Instrument is a web based instrument that gets data from one or several sensors via a Cloud Instrument and contains instrument functionality, things like processing, communication and display. A Widget Instrument can be “wired” to other Widget Instruments using a method named web feed. The Cloud Instrument also uses web feeds to send data to widgets. An unlimited number of widget instruments can be “virtually wired” together with no regard to their physical location by using feeds. Web feeds benefit publishers of web instruments and any other specialized content that provides expertise in analysis, data mining, metering, presentation, etc., by letting them syndicate content automatically. Web feeds also benefit instrumentation customers to subscribe to timely updates from sensors via websites and/or to aggregate sensor feeds from many sites into one place. The web feed virtualizes the concept of PC-based LabVIEW wire the very same way LabVIEW wire virtualized the concept of a traditional instrument physical wire twenty years ago. As an example of a web instrument hosted by LAVA, I will use the HTML capability offered by the LAVA post editor to build a small instrument that contains 3 widgets: 1) a live thermistor connected to channel AI0 of tag1, 2) a current channel connected to the 4-20mA channel of tag2 which is floating, and 3) voltage ch AI1 of tag3 which is also floating. I am inserting the html code into the LAVA post editor now, so the objects should be displayed bellow under this text. If the objects are not displayed it means that LAVA’s html editor does not support the object insertion, and you can go to http://sensedin.blogspot.com/ and see a sensor based Web Instrument hosted by blogspot.com. Best, Marius.

Key Words: Web Instrument Builder, Cloud Instrument, Widget Instrument, Digital Sensor Frame. The cost structure for the combination of LabVIEW on the PC + LabVIEW Web UI Builder does not scale well in the federated use case of measurement applications where things that need to be monitored are very dense, wide spread and Web enabled. For these applications to be cost effective we need the entire application software component to be pushed from local PCs to the Internet. Basically, we need a Web Instrument Builder. Sensors connected to wireless digitizers send data to the Internet and a Data Repository application (an example at http://demo.tag4m.com/ ), which is a web based database with user interface. Think standalone ‘NIDAQ API’ for sensors. Users retrieve sensor data using feeds from the Data Repository to native Web Instruments. Examples of such instruments are the Widget Instrument and Digital Sensor Frame as seen at http://sensedin.blogspot.com/ . The Web Instrument Builder is a graphical programming method for creating web objects and also for ‘wiring’ them into more complex applications that may cross over several web and media sites. The Web Instrument Builder eliminates the cost and complexity of local PC-based software, opens web based measurement applications to unlimited future sensor expansions and reduces application cost by 10x from what a PC-based setup with the LabVIEW Web UI Builder costs today. I am looking for LAVA people interested in working with me on this project, i.e. build native web instruments. Tag4M at http://www.tag4m.com/ offers a free Trial Program to help start this project. Please let me know. -marius info@tag4m.com

Key words: Wi-Fi tag, Cloud Instrument, Cloud Instrumentation, Web Page Instrument, Widget Instrument, Digital Sensor Frame, Temperature Avatar. I am opening a topic about Cloud Instrumentation, what it is, PC versus Cloud based computing and instrumentation trends, business environment, connection to the Internet of Things, etc. Everything has been packaged into an application note which is posted here as the start of this discussions. I am very interested in your thoughts on this subject! Complementary, Tag4M offers a free Trial Program to LabVIEW Integrators interested in trying out the Cloud Instrument concept with or without LabVIEW. Best regards, Marius Ghercioiu President of Tag4M info@tag4m.com Cores Electronic LLC Tel: (512) 905 - 0181 Web: www.tag4m.com Cloud Instrumentation.pdf

Hi Everyone, If you are thinking about placing a small tag in the attic, basement, garden, green house, etc. and measure temperature, humidity, air pressure, CO2, etc., and post the measurement on a web page or inside a widget instrument posted on a webpage, blog, or profile on a social media site, then I have a nice solution for you. http://www.pachube.com/feeds/7277 A LabVIEW Cloud Instrument is an extension of the LabVIEW PC-based instrument into the Internet space. Sensors connected to WiFi tags send data to off-the-shelf Access Points which are part of the WiFi infrastructure that exists in enterprises, retail outlets, factories, and warehouses. Access Points route the data to a LabVIEW application running on a Server IP machine that reads data from tags and feeds the data via TCP/IP Write.vi to the Internet where specialized web applications like pachube receive the information for processing and display. Ian Bell posted an application note on NI Community, dated Aug 5, 2009 – Home Energy Monitor and pachube – which implements a very similar application. http://decibel.ni.co...t/docs/DOC-5425 Pachube, (http://www.pachube.com) as a “real-time data brokerage platform”, enables people to tag and share real time sensor data from objects, devices and spaces around the world. LabVIEW packages sensor data into a script pachube understands. Scripting can also be done in the tag as shown at http://demo.tag4m.com or in the Access Point. A solar cell powered cloud instrument is a cloud instrument powered by a solar cell. Application: solar cell powered Tag4M WiFi Tag connected to sensors sends data to LabVIEW VI running on local computer that feeds the data to pachube for public posting at http://www.pachube.com/feeds/7277 Application note attached. (or at http://test.tag4m.com/home/solarpowered_tag_final-2/) Application uses: 1) Tag4M WiFi tag ($140 single unit, comes with CR123A battery) purchase on the web at www.tag4m.com (Note: the Tag4M tag has a LV2009 driver for this type of applications.) 2) Sensors connected to tag: Temperature (DK part# TC1046VNBTRCT-ND $0.7 single unit -40;+125Deg.C +/-0.5Deg.C typical Accuracy at 25Deg.C), Pressure (DK Part# MP3H6115A6U-ND $9.66 single unit, 2.2 to 16.7PSI), Humidity (HIH-5030, DK part# 480-3294-1-ND $11.01 single unit) 3) LabVIEW VI – download from www.tag4m.com 4) Pachube - getting started with Pachube at http://community.pac....com/quickstart For solar cell inquiry please contact me separately at info@tag4m.com Best, -marius

Hi Phillip, Yes, I have been looking at the PowerMeter idea. A house appliance sends data to a web page via a local Access Point. It can be any measurement: temp, humidity, cholesterol level, CO2, etc anything that is of interest and for which there is a sensor that can be connected to the tag. The tag is the link between this sensor and the web page which is designed to display the information, like a LabVIEW panel. Another angle of this same idea are widgets that can be ported in any web page and display something small, like a temp value or say if/when the light is on in a certain location, things of interest. The larger concept is that of Web Page instruments. Tag4M is a generic tool for building such an instrument, needs sensors and dedicated web page design. I am looking for partners that are interested in this subject, it is a new and growing business. Please contact me at info@tag4m.com if you would like to evaluate this idea. Best regards, -marius

Thank you Rolf ! Would you be interested in evaluating the tag? I have been trying to reach CIT - Netherlands, did not know that you are with them. You can cantact me at info@tag4m.com Best regards, -Marius

Hi Chris, the DAQPodMx stack reminds me of the Cubix back in maybe 2005? at NI. We had LabVIEW ARM running on the controller and I/O boards stacked on top. There is an NI patent on the device, mostly describing the stacking BUS. The invention has not been pursued by NI. Anyway, I have posted a link to my own product today at http://www.tag4m.com/ the Wi-Fi tag which I believe could be stackable on the DAQPodMx. I am sure you support a serial bus, if yes this could be the link. Then you have a tag that is detachable and it can also be connected to the stack for local acquisition. Alternatively you can have a Wi-Fi radio board in the stack(with router- Access Point functionality) that talks to the tag and brings sensor data to the stack (LabVIEW)controller. Does the stack controller run LabVIEW Embedded? or maybe it is Ethernet connected and it can serve web pages. This would also work. We can continue this discussion on my company e-mail address at info@tag4m.com - Best regards, marius

Hi Everyone, I just joined the group today, been with National Instruments for 17 years, AE and mostly R&D (LabVIEW, LabVIEW Embedded, Academic Hardware DE FPGA Board and driver). My most memorable moments at NI are related to working on skunk projects with JeffK, the LabVIEW STAMP project (never to see the light) the Cubix project (same), LabVIEW Embedded, Elemental I/O for ARM and Blackfinn(released), some NI keynote appearances. Currently, I have a small company which manufactures Wi-Fi tags with associated firmware and application software for LabVIEW and WEB pages. Wi-Fi tags read sensors and push data wirelessly to an NI controller platform (like PXI, cRIO, sbRIO, regular PC) running LabVIEW, or to Web pages. My company is specialized in this very narrow application segment. We manufacture the tags in Austin TX, and offer the tag at a very competitive price together with firmware and LabVIEW drivers. I am looking for applications and partners who can use this technology, move it from proof-of-concept to larger projects. My contact information is: Marius Ghercioiu Cores Electronic LLC 9806 Llano Estacado Ln Austin, TX, 78759, USA Tel: (512) 905 - 0181 Web: e-mail: info@tag4m.com