dataTaker

dataTaker

AZZO is proud to be the distributor for dataTaker in South Australia, providing data logging solutions for a wide range of applications, where data acquisition is key to business.

Data Acquisition is the gathering of information about a system or process. It is a core tool to the understanding, control and management of the aforementioned systems or processes.

Parameter information such as temperature, pressure and flow is gathered by sensors that convert the information into electrical signals. Sometimes only one sensor is needed, such as when recording local rainfall. Sometimes hundreds or even thousands of sensors are needed, such as when monitoring a complex industrial process. The signals from the sensors are transferred by wire, optical fibre or wireless link to an instrument which conditions, amplifies, measures, scales, processes, displays and stores the sensor signals. This is the Data Acquisition instrument.

In the past, Data Acquisition equipment was largely mechanical, using smoked drums or chart recorders. Later, electrically powered chart recorders and magnetic tape recorders were used. Today, powerful microprocessors and computers perform Data Acquisition faster, more accurately, more flexibly, with more sensors, more complex data processing, and elaborate presentation of the final information.