Process Controller Camera Configuration

Process Controller has the ability to acquire data from a variety of sensors and meters. The rapid evolution of digital cameras presented an opportunity to add cameras as a data source for process controller. Cameras have become cheaper than any of the other sensors used by Process Controller. A challenge with cameras is that they produce a 2 dimensional array of data for each image collected and that data structure is incompatible with the data handling ability of Process Controller which assumes that a sensor or an external function returns a single data value. Camera configuration also is significantly more complex than calibration of most sensors.

To solve those challenges and integrate cameras into Process Controller a separate application was created to configure the Camera. The Camera Configure software is installed along with the rest of the ProCoDA application suite that now includes

• Process Controller
• EasyData
• pH meter
• Camera Configure

Process Controller now includes a new external function