Sensors....

2 Oct 2005 11:37 PM

Paul Aspinall

Hi
Does anyone know of any 'Sensors' (such as Ph, float switches, temperature
etc), that are available to be connected to a PC, and their values read via
the .NET framework??

Thanks

3 Oct 2005 1:40 AM

Dick Grier

Hi,

I don't know of any X10 stuff for .NET, however, you can take a look at my
PC Data Acquisition pages for information on this question. Basically... It
depends on what specific hardware you want to use.

Dick

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3 Oct 2005 3:20 PM

Brian Gideon

Paul,

I'm sure there are a lot sensors available that can be connected
directly to a PC. Chances are that if it can be connected to a PC then
you can read it from .NET. I suspect a lot are simple RS232
interfaces. There are literally dozens of examples using RS232 in .NET
on the net. Some may even be OPC compliant. OPC compliant devices can
be read in .NET using 3rd party libraries. Still yet, others may have
proprietary interfaces that require special drivers, but even those
might have an SDK that can be used.

Brian

Paul Aspinall wrote:
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> Hi
> Does anyone know of any 'Sensors' (such as Ph, float switches, temperature
> etc), that are available to be connected to a PC, and their values read via
> the .NET framework??
>
> Thanks

3 Oct 2005 8:39 PM

Paul Aspinall

Hi Brian,

Thanks for the reply.

I'm sure I could code against the sensors with .NET also, once I've found
them.... Do you know of any devices?? where can I buy some??

Thanks

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"Brian Gideon" <briangid***@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Paul,
>
> I'm sure there are a lot sensors available that can be connected
> directly to a PC. Chances are that if it can be connected to a PC then
> you can read it from .NET. I suspect a lot are simple RS232
> interfaces. There are literally dozens of examples using RS232 in .NET
> on the net. Some may even be OPC compliant. OPC compliant devices can
> be read in .NET using 3rd party libraries. Still yet, others may have
> proprietary interfaces that require special drivers, but even those
> might have an SDK that can be used.
>
> Brian
>
> Paul Aspinall wrote:
>> Hi
>> Does anyone know of any 'Sensors' (such as Ph, float switches,
>> temperature
>> etc), that are available to be connected to a PC, and their values read
>> via
>> the .NET framework??
>>
>> Thanks
>