数据采集​​，分析和事物互联网

When it comes to industry’s wide-ranging interest in and discussions around the Internet of Things, few technology suppliers are better positioned to play a central role thanNational Instruments。毕竟，公司的整个历史主要集中在数据采集和分析 - 任何东西互联网上的核心方面。

So it’s no surprise that the Internet of Things figured prominently into the theme of this year’s NIWeek event—National Instruments’ (NI) annual conference.

As NI’s president, CEO and co-founder Dr. James Truchard pointed out in his keynote address, NI’s focus has always been on “acquiring, analyzing and presenting real world data. We’re the only company that serves both the test and measurement and industrial embedded markets. We are unique in how we serve these marketplaces.”

He explained that this reach across the sectors critical to IoT underscores NI’s “interact, compute, connect” vision of IoT to connect devices and their data from the “big analog” device level to business analytics systems, the social web, and even into the Internet of Services Big Data applications.

Eric Starkloff, NI’s vice president of global sales and marketing, added that the push toward IoT by both consumer and industrial companies means that we’re actively “instrumenting the world” and the resulting explosion of data is on a similar scale to that of the explosion in biodiversity seen during theCambrian explosion。“And the largest category of data out there is big analog data,” also referred to as device-level data. This area happens to be NI’s sweet spot.

The excitement and hype about IoT is all about the ability to “connect different systems and instrument the world,” Starkloff said. “In the same way that Moore’s Law became a goal for chip makers, IoT is becoming the collective goal of every industry—to measure and analyze everything.”

The new products and features introduced at NIWeek 2015 were very much in line with the IoT “goal” that Starkloff referenced.

For improved data measurement and management, NI released new 4- and 8-slot CompactDAQ controllers featuring quad-core processing, a new 14-slot USB 3.0 CompactDAQ Chassis, and DIAdem 2015 and DataFinder Server Edition 2015.

The new 4- and 8-slotCompactDAQ controllersfeature Intel Atom quad-core 1.91 GHz E3845 processors, programmable with newLabVIEW 2015.system design software, allowing engineers to customize their data acquisition systems to add functionality like processing, intelligence and control. The new controllers can run either Windows Embedded 7 orNI Linux Real-Time, and include 32 GB of non-volatile storage and removable SD storage to create smarter data logging and embedded monitoring applications.

The new USB 3.0CompactDAQ Chassis帮助用户将其测量系统扩展到更高通道计数的应用，而不会降低传输速度。具有14个插槽的扩展容量和USB 3.0流功能（具有250多MB / SEC的数据传输速率），NI声称新的CompactDAQ机箱和LabVIEW软件可以处理当前数据采集需求并适应日益增长的数据采集需求与IOT相关联。

To make critical data-driven decisions, an enterprise data management system is necessary to managing, analyzing and visualizing Big Data—and that’s whereDIAdemandDataFinder Server Edition 2015come into the picture.

Todd Dobberstein, section manager of NI’s data acquisition product marketing, said, “companies on average today are only analyzing 5 percent of their data and will [collectively] spend $17 million in the next year just searching for data.”

NI DIAdem is a software tool that can be used to quickly locate, load, visualize, analyze, and report measurement data collected during data acquisition or generated during simulations.Using 64-bit software, DataFinder Server Edition 2015 delivers multistep querying that can be sent out to servers located anywhere in the world to find the data users need to analyze, reportedly, within seconds.

Also introduced were new embedded systems hardware, based on LabView reconfigurable I/O (RIO), that are particularly relevant to industrial IoT applications. These include the high-performanceCompactrio控制器for use in rugged, industrial applications,控制ler for FlexRIO对于具有高性能嵌入式应用的设计人员，以及Single-Board RIO Controllerfor designers needing more flexibility in embedded applications. Each of these controllers feature the latest Intel and Xilinx latest embedded technologies, and are supported by LabVIEW software, the LabVIEW FPGA Module and NI Linux Real-Time, which is now based on Security-Enhanced Linux, is said to enable advanced security features for Industrial IoT applications.

“To meet the evolving requirements of the industrial Internet of Things, NI’s platform brings together intelligent systems, connectivity and system-to-system communications—coupled with analytical software tools—designed to deliver business insights and customer value,” said Jamie Smith, director of embedded systems at NI.