ETH-8540 Ethernet Expansion Board

ETH-8540 Data Sheet

The ETH-8540 expansion board brings full Ethernet UDP/IP connectivity to the ASIC/2-8540configurable unitary controller. The ETH-8540 plug-in expansion board is powered by the host controller, and networking configuration information is also stored on the host controller.

The ETH-8540 expansion board plugs directly into the ASIC/2-8540 motherboard. The ETH-8540 Ethernet adapter is connected to an Ethernet switch using standard CAT-5 cable. The expansion board is easy to configure using ASI Visual Expert graphical configuration software.

ASIC/2-7540 Configurable Controller

ASIC/2-7540 Data Sheet

Ethernet ready, with USB, RS-485, and RS-232 connectivity

Support for Modbus protocol

16 universal inputs (multiplex up to 64)

12 binary + 8 analog outputs

Onboard battery and clock

Can initiate modem dialout

Onboard USB connection

The ASIC/2-7540 features a powerful and intuitive graphical configuration interface, with an extensive set of objects available to speed the configuration and commissioning process. The controller configuration is stored onboard and preserved through power outages. Configuration data can be uploaded to any instance of ASI Controls Visual Expert configuration software, either through plug-in connectivity on the jobsite or remotely over a network connection.

The ASIC/2-7540 system controllers are fully configurable for HVAC & R and similar process applications. Additionally, they provide communication management functions with two separate communication busses. Suitable for control of larger mechanical equipment, control panels, standalone handling of small facilities, networked control of very large facilities, and other applications.

The controller can be remotely accessed using either Ethernet or modem. The ASIC/2-7540 can initiate outbound modem dialout in order to deliver alarm or event notifications. The programming is done through ASI Visual Expert graphical configuration software.

An onboard USB port offers an alternative means of Ethernet connectivity for the controller. The 16 universal inputs can be multiplexed to achieve up to 64 inputs in total. Includes 12 relay outputs and 8 analog outputs.

The ASIC/2-7540 supports the Modbus protocol by acting as the Modbus RTU Master. This enhances control options for many variable speed drives, power meters, Chillers, lighting controls, digital communicating thermostats, room pressure monitors and other Modbus-enabled devices. Devices such as VFD's and lighting panels can play an important role in Energy Management and Control Systems.

A battery-backed real-time clock is one of the standard features of all ASIC/2 controllers, providing true stand-alone capability. The schedule and calendar features allow special time schedules to be ordered years in advance, providing flexibility for projects such as retail outlets, educational facilities and other settings with variable occupancy.

Power supply 24 VAC or +/- 48 VDC.

SINC/3-3000 Network Interface and Supervisory Controller

SINC/3-3000 Data Sheet

The SINC/3-3000 System Interface and Networking controller is primarily used as the interface to access networked ASI controllers from a PC.

The SINC/3 can also manage up to 128 controllers on 2 local RS-485 buses, bridge RS-232 and RS-485 communications, serve as an access device for a token passing system bus, or even be used as the repeater to enable up to 64 controllers on an RS-485 bus.

The SINC/3-3000 includes a real time hardware clock. Non-volatile EEPROM retains configuration information during outages.

The SINC/3-3000 can act as an optional baud rate buffer to allow networks communicating at differing baud rates to be linked.

BACport BACnet/IP Interface Portal

BACport BACnet/IP Interface Portal

BACport Datasheet

The BACport is a configurable BACnet/IP interface which enables BACnet integration for an ASI Controls network or for a single controller. The BACport supports up to 64 networked ASI controllers via the switch selectable RS-232/485 interface. The BACport works with both new and legacy ASI controllers, so almost any vintage of ASI Controls system can be BACnet enabled.

The BACnet/IP interface can be used to connect ASI Controls network into a system with an existing BACnet front end, and to communicate with OEM equipment having factory mounted ASI Controls hardware using BACnet/IP. The BACport communicates BACnet/IP protocol through the 10/100 Mbps Ethernet port, and can also act as an ASI Ethernet to Serial protocol router. Support for remote UDP connections from ASI Visual Expert allows for configuration and maintenance of installed ASI controllers without interrupting ongoing BACnet/IP communications.

ASI ePAD04 Operator Panel with Digital Display and Keypad

ePAD04 datasheet (PDF; 182 KB)

Scrolling 4 line x 20 character display

Optional password-protection for viewing or changing data

Display text, bar graphs, graphics, alarms, alarm history, schedules

Extended temperature range versions available, up to -4 to 140 degrees F

Enables protocol bridging for Modbus & other protocols

The ASI/EXOR Universal Operator Panel, ePAD04, is a cost effective Human Machine Interface for the ASI Controllers. It enables display of controller status, modification of setpoints and schedules, intervention in controller operation via overrides, and annunciation and acknowledgement of alarms.

A bright LCD display with backlight provides clear visual indication. A membrane keypad provides and attractive yet resilient means of data entry in a variety of environments.

The ASIC/2 driver supports ASIC/2 and SINC/3 controller products The ePAD04 interacts with the ASIC/2-7040 or ASIC/2-8040 on the system or local bus at 9600 baud. Gapping allows coexistence with communication with other controllers and/or the building management software. The ASIC/1 driver supports ASIC/1 controller products.

The ePAD04 is configured using powerful and intuitive Designer software with the ASIC/2 driver. Data from one or more controllers can be placed on a series of screens. The choice of data to be displayed is made at the time the ePAD04 is configured. The configuration is kept in non-volatile memory so that it does not lose program data during power interruption. ASI resellers have used the support for common graphic formats to create customized displays for Unicode languages.

An extensive line of ASI-compatible EXOR products featuring dual-driver (protocol bridging) capabilities, touch screens, color displays and many other features are also available.

Ethernet to Serial Router

EtherLink/2 Ethernet to Serial Router

EtherLink/2 datasheet (PDF; 180 KB)

High-performance Ethernet-to-serial router

Switch-selectable support for either RS-232 or RS-485

Built-in webserver provides simple, quick configuration interface

Open 1 TCP/IP + 3 UDP connections simultaneously on single IP port

SNTP for time synchronization and timekeeping functionality

Flash memory upgradeable via built-in FTP server

Small footprint, measures approximately 5" x 1 1/2 " x 1"

Intelligent buffering and relay of alarms and events

The EtherLink/2 is a simple device to add Ethernet connectivity to an ASI controller or network, providing a cost effective solution for connecting ASI controllers to a new or existing TCP/IP network.

The EtherLink connects directly to the RS-232 modem port of a SINC/3-3000 Multiport System Interface. Using the optional null modem cable, an EtherLink/2 can be connected directly to the RS-232 Port of a single ASIC/2-7040 or ASIC/2-8040 controller.

The ASI Etherlink/2 offers advanced data buffering functionality. In situations where the remote server cannot be reached, whether it be due to network outages or other issues, the EtherLink/2 will buffer trend and alarm/event data and periodically attempt to deliver the data to it's destination. The intelligent data buffering capability helps control systems incorporating the EtherLink/2 to avoid 2 common problems: "holes" in the trend data, and missed alarms or event notifications.

The EtherLink/2 is configured with an IP address and setup parameters either directly through the built-in web server configuration interface, or by means of a dumb terminal program (e.g. HyperTerminal) connected to the RS-232 port.

The ASI WebLink graphical interface communicates via LinkOPC (ASI's OPC Server) to a remote ASI Controls device or network to provide full access to all devices on the remote network. Additionally, the EtherLink can be configured to report notifications to a remote site running ASI's Monitor alarm and event notification program.

The EtherLink/2 is small and easy to configure, it can be installed and fully operational in minutes. A power supply is included.

Networking Devices

Networking Devices

	EtherLink/2 Ethernet networking device		ePAD04 Operator Panel
	BACport BACnet/IP interface		SINC/3-3000 system interface and network controller
	ASIC/2-7540 USB-to-Ethernet		ETH8540 Ethernet Expansion board

For convenient one stop ordering, ASI Controls also stocks a range of accessories and peripheral devices. Temperature, relative humidity and pressure sensors are intended to work with ASI controllers. We also offer connectivity accessories including pre-initialized modems, sensor cables, interposing relay modules, molex wiring harnesses, resistor kits, and fuses.

c4line

c4line

Detailed Product Description

The C4Line C4L6000-ETH HomePlug Ethernet Adaptor provides No New Wires communications to any rooms, over any powerline wires, at the speed of up to 200Mbps.

Targeted at the residential users, it is utilizing Intellon INT6000 high-speed powerline chipset. With transfer rates of 200Mbps, Ethernet HomePlug AV can easily support full multimedia home networking throughout the whole house including simultaneous High Definition (HD) and Standard Definition (SD) video distribution, whole-house audio, Voice Over IP and high speed Internet in addition to data networking.

It uses the powerlines already installed in a home as a path to transmit digital data, voice, audio and video between devices.

Enhanced Quality of Service (QOS) also provides the guaranteed bandwidth reservations for multimedia payloads including TV over IP (IPTV) , higher data rate broadband sharing, Online-Gaming, VOIP Calls, extending Wireless LANs coverage, Audio-Video transmission across the network as well as Network camera connectivity.

It is a plug and play solution that can be used wherever there is a wall socket, acting just like a physical network cable, streaming bandwidth to any room in the house.

It comes with a 128-bit AES encryption ensuring that your network communications is free from eavesdroppers and hackers.

And C4L6000-ETH also have COAXIAL connector and it communication existing POWERLINE & COAXIAL. So it is more reliable and wide coverage than ordinary PLC.

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Homeplug AV (COAX Hybrid) Networking Devices

New Patent from Nokia

New Patent from Nokia

Nokia has patented a very unique and multi-purpose device recently. Some even say that this might be the most ambitious patents from Nokia. A device called “a portable electronic device having a cable that functions as a carrying strap, a stylus, a data cable, and a power cable” has now listed in the long patent list of Nokia.

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Putting the old back into new media

Putting the old back into new media

Alessandro Ludovico is no stranger to technology - he worked with a group on the controversial Amazon Noir project. Scripts repeatedly mined the booksellers "Look Inside this book" feature, piecing back the hundreds of random pages into complete novels, then redistributing them via P2P (Peer to Peer) filesharing software. Together with Paolo Cirio, he also staged "Google Will Eat Itself" a couple years ago, filtering funds received from Google AdWords to purchase stock in the global search giant. So at the "still/open" artists workshop in Melbourne last week, as Janine Randerson reports, his topic was very surprising. Paper.

Ludovico's talk, the Persistence of Paper deconstructed the hailed 'paperless office', and elaborated on the strength of the humble book as an historical record amidst a very transient web, an autonomous lo-tech solution which is "reliable and not dependent on the lack of tcp/ip waves or electricity". He moves on to suggesting "just in time" publishing - newspapers or magazines that are feverishly updated until a few moments before cheap offline production onto paper.

Helmut Smitt's "Pamphlet" work riffs on this new ease of publishing, allowing visitors to type in a message and have a printer spit out a brochure from the 10th floor of a tower block. Services like online publisher lulu.com make significantly bigger works possible - send a PDF, choose distribution methods, and even get an ISBN. Gmail announced it's "Paper Gmail" feature, allowing printouts of archived mails, as an April Fools Day joke. But users, and r

Building a better laptop

Building a better laptop

On Tuesday, the One Laptop per Child project started production at a factory in China, mass-producing an initial run of 250,000 models that will go out to children in nations like Nigeria, Thailand and Peru, where they've already been trialled. The bright green casing looks like a rugged alien. The stylized interface is friendly and playful. It's designed for the ground-up for kids. But the team behind it are dead serious.

The OLPC project harnesses and coordinates a large network of volunteer programmers, who refine aspects like security applications which protect against large-scale attacks, compiler optimisation to speed up code-building, remote display for projectors and memory usage minimising.

Because a hard-drive is one of the top items to break on traditional laptops, the XO model features a tiny flash-drive instead. For programmers, this means a return to 80's era coding - building highly functional software in as few lines of script as possible, ditching huge 'code libraries' with big filesize footprints for tiny utilities and more custom work.

In Abuja, Nigeria, the nearest powerpoint could be a long walk away. So it makes sense that the OLPC are pedantic about electricity usage. "For us, every joule matters, and a simplistic 'oh, we mostly have most of a chip turned off, maybe' isn't good enough." The default display mode uses 1 watt of power - 1/7th of the average laptop display. Run out of power? Charge it up again with a hand crank on the side.

In the last few months, the team have put the XO through it's paces: developing hour-long 'smoke tests', tracking down obscure bugs in the kernel, localising keyboards for West Africa and Nepal, optimising rendering, and refining to stabilised builds. The prototype hardware has been tested to destruction in the factory, as well as the acid test - children on playgrounds in Peru, jungle field trips in Thailand, and the dust of Maharashtra, India.

Images from OLPC Project, available under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5

Quicktake: Adam Willetts at Whammy Bar

Quicktake: Adam Willetts at Whammy Bar

Artist/musician Adam Willetts performed a solo set last night at Auckland's Whammy Bar, moving seamlessly from aggressive, glitch based feedback to melodic pulses and back again. Kneeling shaman-like on the floor, Willetts managed to avoid the cold, impersonal performances of 'laptop' sets where movement is limited to mouseclicks and knob twiddling. Instead, with the typical barrage of wires and effects pedals were a pair of wireless white objects not usually used with music - Wiimotes. Because the Nintendo Wii controllers use accelerometers/gyroscopes, they're sensitive to shaking, tilting and panning, and have been hooked up as MIDI controllers by enterprising glitch kids, allowing musicians to control sonic waves as easily as gamers hit virtual tennis balls. The controllers made for a much more compelling, physical performance as Willetts literally shook out shock waves of noise and bent wrists to overdrive tones. Unfortunately Willetts was the standout of the night, the lineup moving awkwardly from improvised noise and glitch based soundscapes to a Loretta Lynn-like singer songwriter before ending with The Terminals, who cranked through a set of oldskool punk numbers in the spirit of the Sex Pistols.

Code snippet: Simple sound visualisation While United Visual Artists produce ambitious, mammoth installations for artists like the Chemical Brothers

Code snippet: Simple sound visualisation

While United Visual Artists produce ambitious, mammoth installations for artists like the Chemical Brothers (shown above), you can respond to music and sound with some simple Flash code.

With the advent of version 9 of the software, Adobe has introduced a spectrograph tool, capable of reading and responding to the various EQ changes in a song. This enables rich feedback - scripts for example could show deep purple for base heavy techno, and a light pink line for a high-pitched opera sonata. Programmers have responded with an array of experiments, sound toys, and visualisers like the ones from this competition on The Flash Blog.

The only problem is that live sound, either from a microphone or the input on a computer, doesn't have this ability. Programmers are restricted to responding to basic volume changes, which although simple, can still be compelling. From a dozen lines of code....

Seance for Nam June Paik in Christchurch this weekend

Seance for Nam June Paik in Christchurch this weekend

“I use technology in order to hate it more properly” Nam June Paik

As part of the ADA Symposium this weekend, Daniel Agnihotri-Clarke presents Séance for Nam June Paik, a screening and performance event featuring Disasteradio, Naomi Lamb, Emil McAvoy & Damian Stewart, Bronwyn Smith, Nathan Thompson, Dell McLeod, Andrew Clifford, Morgan Barnard, and Dan Untitled. Widely regarded as the father of video art, "digital artworks by Aotearoa/New Zealanders will be presented in a new project: to channel (and negotiate with) the spirit of the late Korean artist’s practice".

Sonics in South America

Sonics in South America

Sam Hamilton writes to let us know he's posted 170+ photographs of his recent South American odyssey on Flickr. Sam joined a group of other researchers, artists, and musicians in the Amazon, completing a series of field recordings o

Play it! Make it! workshop media now online

Play it! Make it! workshop media now online

Documentation from our recent Play it! Make it! exhibition is now online. This includes photos from the workshop as well as a playable version of the completed game - a bizaare mix of collaged couples, jumping fish, and cackling spirits. We've had a number of requests to run the workshop again, if you're interested just leave a commen

Phishing for change: Hye Rim gets hacked

Phishing for change: Hye Rim gets hacked

"I am sorry I didn't inform you about my traveling to Africa" the email begins. It goes on to inform me that the sender is "really stranded in Nigeria because I forgot my little bag in the Taxi where my money, passport, documents and other valuable things were". After setting up the desperate situation, including a bullying Hotel Management and your friend now starving because of lack of funds, the clincher comes. "Please can you help me with a sum of $2700 to sort out my problems here?"

While everyones aware of the standard Nigerian money fraud scheme, it's rare that an entire email account can be hacked into, allowing a variation of this tactic to come from a good friend or colleague. But that's precisely what happened to Hye Rim Lee, the New Zealand based artist who's recently had a flurry of group and solo shows in New York. Strangely enough, the scam email coincides with some of Hye-Rims recent activity, the Africa trip to "empower youth to fight AIDs" is not too far off some recent charitable shows.

Sending art to a better place

Sending art to a better place

Via the Art Newspaper, "One of the central works in the exhibition “Design and the Elastic Mind” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (until 12 May), Victimless Leather, a small jacket made up of embryonic stem cells taken from mice, has died. The artists, Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr, say the work which was fed nutrients by tube, expanded too quickly and clogged its own incubation system just five weeks after the show opened."

Catts and Zurr, based at an Arts and Science collaborative lab in Western Australia, designed the work as a prototype mixing living and manufactured elements, intending to provoke "a more responsible attitude towards our environment". It succeeded in doing just that, forcing curator Paola Antonelli to euthanise the jacket, halting growth permanently.

For more information, see the Victimless Leather entry at the Design and the Elastic Mind site.

OLD NET WORKS

OLD NET WORKS

The Milwaukee Sentinel - Jun 24, 1989

The Spokesman-Review - Aug 15, 1982

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Jul 16, 1982

The Age - Dec 3, 1981

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Aug 1, 2004

For folks looking for more information from the early days of the Walkman, I found some the following magazine articles in Google Books, including a review in the September 1981 issue of Popular Science and this ad in the February 1984 issue.

xtra! Extra! Updates from our growing newspaper archives

xtra! Extra! Updates from our growing newspaper archives

Posted by Ryan Sands, Google News Online Team

Last September on this blog, we announced a new initiative to digitize newspapers and make them accessible and searchable online.

We've recently updated our index, quadrupling the number of articles included in News Archive Search. We now include articles from several new publications, including the Halifax Gazette,Sydney Morning Herald, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and the Village Voice. Working with our partners, we've also added new international publications such as the Manila Standard,The Nation from Thailand, and many others.

Looking for a place to start exploring this rich historical index? How about the complete June 2, 1753 edition of the Halifax Gazette, one of the oldest newspapers we've digitized to date.

News Archive Search is an ongoing effort, and we're continuing to work with publishers to add new materials. You can explore this historical treasure trove by searching on News Archive Search or by using the timeline feature after searching on Google News.