Advantech WebAccess VS Labview

[Butter]

Hi NI,

I am evaluating Advantech WebAccess vs Labview.

Can Labview search and read Advantech ADAM devices.

Moreover, if I build up a Labview program and I want my client to read the panel I've built via the internet browser, of which, showing the data captured form the ADAM device.

Here are the details.

I utilized ADAM devices to collect plant information. They will be collected by a computer at site, data will be feed to a local or remote server. Data or report need to be seen via browser, thus, my clients can logon the server via their android device / iphone or notebook.

I was a casul user of Labview long ago and paused for a long while, thus, want to catch up a lot.

Butterman

[nathand]

I'm unfamiliar with Advantech WebAccess, so I cannot directly compare it to LabVIEW.  However, I have used Advantech ADAM units with LabVIEW.  You have several options for communicating with them.  Advantech supplies a .NET library that you can use with LabVIEW, along with LabVIEW examples.  You can do direct TCP or UDP communication with an ADAM unit using the protocol specified in the documentation.  The ADAM units can be set up to send out data from a set of inputs over UDP at a specified rate, which is an easy way to read data regularly with minimal overhead.

As far as displaying it on the web, it really doesn't matter what the data source is.  If you can get the values into LabVIEW, then you can display it on the front panel and make that front panel web accessible.