Data collection Applications

Brains for movie theater seats
Contemporary witnesses of World War II were interviewed about their experiences for a Swiss national exhibition. These interviews were then edited and produced into movies to be shown throughout Switzerland in a travelling exhibition.

Thanks to Barix, the viewers are able to choose by vote what movie they want to see. The system works by using Barix Barionet modules that act as the control elements which are mounted in every seat. The device allows the user to select the movie and his choice is then transmitted online to a central PC. After the movie selection has been made, the system talks back to the Barix Barionets to inform the users which movie received the most votes and is going to be shown.

Industrial Automation - Universal gateway with drive
Universal gateway with drive - To be successful in the automobile industry you must be flexible, profitable and efficient; attributes that precisely match those of Barix.

It is not surprising that the global leader of automobile production automation uses a Barix gateway for industrial automation facilities, such as collecting and processing production and machine data. The Barix industrial automation gateway is a powerful device offering TCP tunnel and UDP datagrams over RS-232 for serial data, a Modbus/TCP bridge and remote dialling capabilities.

The technology of Barix plays a vital role in the industrial automation propelling the customers forward, ahead of the rest in the competitive market of today.

Remote data collection

Production facilities which are equipped with remote data collection systems from German company Kaba Benzing are highly intelligent thanks to Barix technology.

The Barix Barionet monitors the operation and collects data such as production units, run-time, down-time or any other necessary data. The Barionet remote data collection system transmits the production data over standard network infrastructure to the main server.

In case the network is down, the Barionet stores the information and tries to transmit it at a later time.

Mobile worktime monitoring
When time goes on a journey - At the Swiss National Railway (SBB), the division SBB Immoclean is responsible for cleaning and maintaining all of its company owned property. To monitor the workforce the company has equipped every worker with a barcode scanner for mobile worktime monitoring. The workers must scan the barcodes on all the sites they visit to log time and location information.

At the end of the day the workers place their barcode scanners into the data collection stations that then transmit the data online or offline to the command center.

The system integrator company zetaConsult had a difficult task to develop the offline data transmission for this mobile worktime monitoring solution. The problem the company faced was how they could ensure that the scanners' internal time would continue to clock and stay accurate while uploading all collected data.

Eventually the company figured out a mobile worktime monitoring solution which was sending the devices' current time along with the collected data. That's where Barix came into play.

Barix used the Barionet interface platform to develop a customized hardware component for the company zetaConsult. This component collects and protects the data and additional time information. The Barionet is able to upload the entire data over the internet to the command center. If no network infrastructure is available on site, the offline solution is that the whole Barionet gets mailed via the postal service to the command center so that the data can be extracted from the Barionet on site.




HVAC controlling
The US company DataNab, a leader in data acquisition systems, uses in their installations the Barix Barionet, a datalogger over IP, for temperature monitoring and power monitoring.

The new temperature solution monitors up to 100 temperature inputs and is ideal for data center server floors and server racks, grocery store coolers, food processing and distribution centers, among numerous additional commercial environments.

The datalogger over IP is easy to install, with temperature sensors using a standard RJ-45 or RJ-12 connection. The application supports standard SNMP trap protocol to notify users if a temperature goes into alarm, and the alarm can also be routed via email. Current temperature levels, as well as temperature history, can be viewed via standard web-browser.

The new web-enabled power monitoring solution is particularly timely, as sub-metering becomes more common industry-wide. The solution monitors (1) watts; (2) demand – present; (3) demand – peak; and (4) watt – hours. The data can also be aggregated over time across multiple sites and facilities to a single server for creating week, month, and year consumption.