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In fact, the NEWPORT controller can even send an email
to the engineer (or anyone he chooses) alerting him
to an alarm condition or updating the status. Leveraging
the technology of the Internet, the engineer could receive
a message from his NEWPORT controller on an Internet
enabled pager or cell phone.
Most
remarkable about the NEWPORT breakthrough is that all
this is accomplished without a computer. The NEWPORT
iSeries device (meter or controller) connects
directly to the Ethernet Network-not to the serial port
of a computer functioning as a "server" and
"master" to "slave" instruments
connected through serial communications.
These
small NEWPORT iSeries instruments are full stand-alone
Internet Appliances. The Ethernet and Web Server capability
is actually embedded in the device.
The
NEWPORT iSeries device is assigned an IP address on
the network and can also be assigned an easily remembered
name such as "Heater1". In fact, the device
could be assigned an authorized Internet IP address
from an Internet Service Provider and function as a
World Wide Web Server delivering whatever specific information
is called for. (For an example, please see www.newportUS.com/iSeriesserver)
Apart
from the Web server feature, the iSeries also
works with conventional data acquisition and control
programs as well as Visual Basic and Excel. NEWPORT
provides free software and demos which makes it fast
and easy to get up and running with many applications.
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