Casella CEL Software for Nomad (Standard Operation) - Manual (Page 7)

1. INTRODUCTION
Casella Online Pro Application Software provides users of Casella Automatic
Weather Stations and Nomad Portable Stations, Multimet instruments and
Wind Speed and Direction Systems with a powerful and versatile program for
the accumulation, processing and presentation of environmental data.
Replacing the earlier Casella Online application, Online Pro has been
completely rewritten to take advantage of the 32 bit facilities available from
current versions of Windows and provide greater ease of use. This allows the
operator to concentrate on the data, while maintaining and extending the
flexibility with which data can be gathered and displayed. Data from multiple
sources can be viewed on common screens in real time, allowing easy
comparison of environmental conditions.
This software integrates the functions of real time data presentation,
data archiving and historical presentation into an easily used package. It is
designed to run on Windows 95, 98, NT 4, ME, 2000 and XP.
Online Pro offers the following Display features:
¤ Real time display showing prevailing conditions that provides critical
information for on-site decisions
¤ Dynamic Data Exchange that allows real-time data to be viewed in
another program
¤ Automatic switching between user specified display screens
¤ Alarm display
¤ Save function for screen layout
¤ Windows bit map (.bmp) image presentation for displaying site
maps, company logos, hazards etc
¤ Multi-section bit maps, where the displayed section is dependant
upon the condition of a data input value
¤ Individual site maps with dynamic wind direction overlay
Plus the following features for User Convenience:
¤ Standard screen layouts loaded as default
¤ Password protection
¤ Comprehensive on-line help
¤ File loading displayed automatically
¤ Convertion of on-line log files
¤ Archiving of data to disk at user defined intervals
¤ Dynamically changing screens including scrolling graphs and alarm
warnings
¤ Production of line graphs based upon historical data
¤ Tabular report presentation of data files
The versatility of the Online Pro application software enables a variety of
other parameters to be incorporated and mathematically determined from
basic sensor values.
¤ Linear Scaling maths functions (y = mx + c)
Introduction
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