Measurement Systems are pleased to announce the availibility of the ICPCON I-8000 Range of Modular Distributed Data Acquisition products. The range of Compact, Rugged and Intelligent units provide maximum flexibility and versatility for a wide variety of applications from Data-Acquisition, process control, test and measurement, to energy and building management.

The 8000 is a modular network based system with the capability of connecting I/O either through it's own local bus or alternatively through I/O expansion or network extension. The unit comprises a main control unit with a range of standard communication interfaces, and an I/O bus permitting I/O expansion. The bus is hybrid in nature providing the facility to connect either serial or parallel I/O modules. The parallel bus is used for high speed data transfer. The unit can communicate either using serial communications (RS232,RS485) or Ethernet. The Ethernet version of the product supports an integrated web server permitting Internet and Intranet applications.

The 8000 can be used as an intelligent distributed data acquisition front end connected to a Host machine running a standard SCADA package, or alternatively it can be user programmed as an autonomous controller running an embedded software application. Significant non-volatile memory is available for data and program storage.