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The Newsletter for PC-Based Data Acquisition and Control
Issue 174 www.windmill.co.uk January 2013
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Welcome 2013's first issue of Monitor, the data
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* Get all the Windmill programs for just £295
* Excel Corner
* DAQ News Round-up
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Get all the Windmill programs for just £295
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Excel Corner
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In the next issue of Monitor: getting real-world,
real-time, data into Excel without using DDE.
If you have a question about using Excel to collect and
process data, please get in touch: e-mail
monitor@windmillsoft.com.
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DAQ News Round-up
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Welcome to our round-up of the data acquisition and
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Flower Power sensor gives everyone green fingers
A stick-shaped wireless sensor monitors soil
nutrients, moisture and sunlight; so no excuse for
killing that poinsettia this year
Source: New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/
Small, Portable Sensors Allow Pollution Monitoring on Smart Phones
Computer scientists have built a small fleet of
portable pollution sensors that allow users to
monitor air quality in real time on their
smart phones.
Source: UC San Diego
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/
Marine Robots detect Endangered Whales
Two submarine robots equipped with instruments
designed to listen for the calls of whales,
have detected nine endangered North
Atlantic right whales. Battery powered and
exceptionally quiet in the water, the robot
gliders are equipped with an underwater
microphone on the underside of the vehicle
near its wings and an iridium satellite
antenna on the tail section. The vehicle
surfaces every few hours to get a GPS
position and transmit data to shore-side
computers.
Source: SCUBA News
http://news.scubatravel.co.uk/marine-robots-right-whales.html
DCS Market in Asia Driven by Robust Growth in Developing Economies
The major growth in Distributed Control Systems
(DCS) revenues continues to come from developing
nations, according to a report from the
Arc Advisory Group.
Source: Arc Advisory Group
http://www.arcweb.com/press-center/pages/default.aspx
3D Sonar Map Shows Sunken Civil War Ship
A new 3-D state of the art sonar map shows
never-before seen details of the USS Hatteras,
the only Union warship sunk in combat in the
Gulf of Mexico during the Civil War.
Source: SCUBA News
http://news.scubatravel.co.uk/
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