The RadioLinx OPC Server seamlessly links customer applications to RadioLinx
radios. Any application that can act as an OPC Client, such as an HMI, can
interact with any type of RadioLinx radio. It allows the applications to get
signal strength, serial number and throughput information, as well as other
useful statistics.
With Windows XP, the RadioLinx OPC Server runs as a service. If using
Windows NT, the OPC Server runs in the background. It independently manages all
requests from OPC Clients for information on RadioLinx radios. The OPC Clients
are typically HMI programs, but can also be easily monitored by Microsoft
Excel. The clients can be programs running either on the same PC as the OPC
Server or on a separate PC connected via a network connection.
Features and Benefits
The RadioLinx OPC Server manages querying the RadioLinx radios over the
Ethernet connection. The OPC Server manages all requests for information about
those radios, and communicates over the appropriate connection to retrieve the
information.
Applications
The RadioLinx OPC Server manages the requests for information about the
radios and queries the radios appropriately to provide the needed information
to the clients. For example, several HMIs may request signal strength of a
single radio. These requests will be sent to the RadioLinx OPC Server. The
RadioLinx OPC Server will query that radio once and reply back to all of the
HMIs with the information they requested. The rate at which the RadioLinx OPC
Server will query the radios on the network will be determined by the rates
that the individual HMIs request updates.
Functional Specifications
- Presents data from ProSoft RadioLinx products to OPC
clients
- Communicates with four different types of radios:
- RLX-FHE
- RLX-FHES
- RLX-FHS
- RLX-IH
- The FH radios present the following tags for OPC clients
to monitor:
- RSSI
- Signal to noise
- Serial number
- Parent address
- Associations
- Bit error rate
- Total bytes forwarded
- Total bytes reversed
- Total good packets
- Tx Packet Errors
- Reset Stats
- The IH radio presents the following tags for OPC clients
to monitor:
- RSSI
- Firmware version
- SSID
- MAC ID
- Parent MAC
- Number of associations
- Up time
- Total good packets TX
- Total failed packets TX
- Soft reset
- Total bytes TX
- Updates on demand, or every 10 seconds
- Survives communication errors and power failures.
Recovers through power cycles
- Reads radio tags only; writing to tags is not fully
implemented (Reset Stats and Soft Reset only)
- Implemented as a service on Window XP and a background
application on Windows NT with a system tray icon
- Maintains quality values for radio tags
System Requirements
These configuration tools are designed for Microsoft Windows XP, 2000 and
NT. Minimum hardware requirements are:
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