National Instruments NI 9795 C Series wireless gateway and NI WSN-3230, WSN-3231 measurement nodes

National Instruments has announced the NI 9795 C Series wireless gateway and the NI WSN-3230 and WSN-3231 measurement nodes, extending the capabilities of the NI wireless sensor network (WSN) platform. With NI LabVIEW system design software, engineers can easily integrate wired and wireless measurement and control systems and deploy autonomous programs to WSN nodes that perform local control, data analysis and event-based alarming or notification.

The NI 9795 C Series gateway aggregates measurement data from distributed WSN nodes, making data available within deployed LabVIEW Real-Time applications running on CompactRIO. It adds to existing programmable and nonprogrammable WSN gateways to offer choices for cost and flexibility.

The NI WSN-3230 (1-port RS232) and NI WSN-3231 (1-port RS485) serial nodes feature one serial port and two digital I/O channels for discrete inputs, event detection and programmatic control. Query and parse algorithms can be embedded directly on the WSN node with the LabVIEW WSN Module to create an autonomous programmable interface to a variety of serial-based instruments, sensors and control boards.