Note: The following is excerpted from the RPSC GUV Monitor Software User's Manual and is suggestive of ways to adapt Biospherical software to a variety of data collection requirements.
Research-quality UV measurements can be acquired using a Biospherical Instruments Inc. GUV ultraviolet radiometer coupled with “LOGGER.EXE.” LOGGER automatically saves measurements from the GUV into Microsoft Access database (MDB) files. However, to simplify integrating GUV-class instruments with other Raytheon Polar Services Company (RPSC) systems, Biospherical Instruments Inc. has created a special application designed to repackage GUV measurements and make them available at a specified serial data port. This specialized application is called the “RPSC GUV Monitor” (“MONITOR” for short). To make ASCII-formatted, calibrated data available at the computer serial port requires two independently operating programs:
1) LOGGER.EXE to control the GUV, acquire the readings, and apply calibration constants; and
2) MONITOR.EXE to repackage a GUV data frame from LOGGER and make it available at
the serial data port of a computer.
Note that although LOGGER can be configured to store these data, MONITOR does not store data—the data must be harvested from the serial port by another application to be useful after the fact. MONITOR uses the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) to request measurements from the LOGGER program; thus, MONITOR will operate across a local area network (LAN), making the data available on a separate computer from the LOGGER computer. The PC running LOGGER and the PC running MONITOR may be the same PC, or may be different PCs located on the same network. They may even be PCs connected via the Internet, assuming that firewalls are properly configured to route the traffic over the requested port.
Download the above mentioned user's manual to learn more.