Today’s industrial efficiency demands for real time data from business processes. Data that can be collected automatically and from plant or process sensors and communicated directly with computer network for on line analysis and reporting.
In factory, laboratory or process plant, sensors are most of the time distributed around the organization, making wiring and installation costs expensive. However the availability of distributed real time data collection devices that can collect data from sensors and transmit it to a host computer, make real time data collection financially accessible to most organizations.

The EXPERT series is a low cost, high performance distributed I/0 sensor to computer interface system, designed to provide direct connection to local and remote analog and digital devices. EXPERT can collect and process data from distributed sensors and communicate directly with a host PC serial port (RS-232) using a standard RS-485 data network.

These compact rugged DIN rail mounted modules can be used for real time data collection to provide a very cost effective solution for sensor signal conditioning, analog to digital conversion and data communications in distributed sensor applications. Each of the I/0 devices can connect directly to a network via an RS-485 interface. In its simplest form, the EXPERT modules can be considered to be a device that converts real time inputs into an RS-485 output that can be transmitted to a host computer.

All modules can interconnect and inter-operate to create a distributed network based data acquisition and control system. The network can support up to 256 modules over a distance of 3,6 km. Network repeaters enable expansion to 2048 modules over distances of 10km.