SANY Sensors Anywhere

AnySen driver has been back-ported to existing UWEDAT monitoring system and used in production environments. Companies interested in integrating AnySen in their own products are kindly asked to contact AIT.

The AnySen driver is a software component for low level data acquisition, which can be used to connect sensors to a Data Acquisition System. It controls the sensor, interprets measurement streams and parses measurements.

AnySen is a part of the Time Series Toolbox and can be easily combined with other toolbox components. The main advantage of AnySen is its capability to read and interpret data from many sensor nodes equipped with a digital interface (e.g. RS232 or LAN). This is achieved by abstracting the sensor protocols and reading the concrete description out of a simple sensor description file. All commands necessary for configuring and retrieving data from an analyser can be configured at run time. When a new sensor is attached to the DAS, the AnySen can trigger an automated configuration process, leading to the sensor level ‘Plug and Measure’.

The configuration can either be read from a central Database, or from the SensorSA Smart Sensor. The configuration possibilities include the protocol description, structure of the measurements, and various meta-information such as the name and unit of the measured phenomenon. This is a significant difference to current DAS concepts, where this meta-information is injected in higher levels, often as part of the application logic.