ICP DAS Releases PM-213x Energy Meters

ICP DAS releases the PM-213x Energy Meters! Energy consumption data can save money. Energy is often being wasted; our energy meters will help you to monitor the energy consumption of your equipment. The PM-213x series can be applied to both low voltage, medium and high voltage to ensure reliable and accurate energy consumption and readings of monitored equipment. Our smart energy meters communicate via RS-485 and Modbus RTU protocol. They are compact and low in cost. The PM-213x Series are designed for general Single-Phase and Three-Phase power measurement.

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Casino Machine with Battery Backup Provided by PCI-M512U

How serious could the damage be when a sudden power failure happens? Imagine that you are playing a casino machine and are winning more than 10,000 dollars. You begin to think of how to use your unexpected windfall. Now you can even buy a new yacht! A power failure happens suddenly just at the moment you want to press down the cash out button. The screen becomes dark and the machine shuts down. All your winning disappears!! Now you get nothing but misery, pain and frustration. But wait a minute! After the power resumes, the machine restarts and all your big-money-win record was safely kept! You’re so lucky that the machine equips with ICP DAS PCI-M512U, which ensures the persistence of data even in the case of total power loss! Hurry up! Press the cash out button now and become the WINNER and the happiest taxpayer! Power failure happens every 3 hours in Las Vegas, owing to huge power consumption. Now you understand which machine to play with next time!

PCI-M512U equips not only a 512KB SRAM for data store, but also two Li-batteries to maintain the data in the event of power failure. These Li-batteries can supply power continuously for the SRAM to retain the important data for almost 10 years; and the two-battery design makes it safe to replace new batteries without losing data. Besides, PCI-M512U also has plenty of DI/O ports for connecting with the devices of the machine. Especially for those industries with high risks of power failure, PCI-M512U is the best choice for winning customers’ trust! Features of PCI-M512U: 512K bytes SRAM 32-bit Memory Access 16-bit I/O Access 12-channel D/I 16-channel D/O Two Li-batteries Universal PCI

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ICP DAS Releases New Product : XP-8xx7-CE6 Series of ISaGRAF XPAC

XP-8xx7-CE6 series is the new generation ISaGRAF PAC of ICP DAS. It equips with an AMD LX 800 CPU (500 MHz) running a Windows Embedded CE 6.0 operating system, various connectivity (as the table below) and 0/3/7 slots for high performance parallel I/O modules (high profile I-8K series) and hot-swap serial-type I/O modules (high profile I-87K I/O modules). The Professional OS version of ISaGRAF XPAC, XP-8xx7-CE6-PRO, provides built-in Internet Explorer Software to monitor and/or control the local/remote I/O modules, no extra PC needed.

Major Advantage (Compared with the WP-8xx7 and VP-2xW7) : The USB mouse operations and Ethernet communication of the XP-8xx7-CE6 are more effective than the WP-8xx7 and VP-2xW7. (Consume less CPU loading) The memory size (Flash and SDRAM) of the XP-8xx7-CE6 is much more than the WP-8xx7 and VP-2xW7. The Professional OS version XP-8xx7-CE6-PRO can run its own Internet Explorer to monitor/control the local/remote I/O modules. (The Standard version XP-8xx7-CE6 requires running Internet Explorer in PC to monitor and/or control the local/remote I/O modules.)

Model OS Pre-Installed Software CPU Flash SDRAM VGA (Resolution) Ethernet RS-232/ RS-485 USB 2.0 XP-8xx7-CE6 WinCE 6.0 ISaGRAF LX 800 500 MHz 4 GB 512 MB 1024 x 768 (or above) 2 4 or 5 2 XP-8xx7-CE6-PRO WinCE 6.0 Professional

Hot Features and Applications : Support Modbus TCP/IP Master Protocol Support Modbus RTU/ASCII Master Protocol Support Modbus RTU/TCP Slave Protocol Support Data Log Stress Monitoring Application of Constructions Redundant Communication System : Central Control PAC to Local PACs Redundant Systems : Ethernet I/O redundant / Hot-swap RS-485 I/O redundant ZigBee Wireless Solution GPS Wireless Applications SMS : Short Message Service Send Email with/without One Attached File Data Acquisition and Auto-Report System Integrate with CAN/CANopen Devices and Sensors Fast FRnet Remote I/O Application Motion Control…

To see ICP DAS at SPS / IPC / DRIVES 2009.
The SPS / IPC /Drives is the exhibition for electric automation technology. It covers all components down to the system and offers herewith integrated automation solutions. Exhibitors and visitors profit from the advantage that visiting numerous exhibitions on components becomes superfluous. At the booth of Spectra, you can see all the new products from ICPDAS.

The hottest M2M solution!
In recent years, the significance of communication is expanding exponentially. From home application to large scale industrial machines, there are millions of machines waited to be connected online. The advancement in GSM and GPRS technologies has enabled wireless integration with wired-machines more affordable & effective then ever. ICP DAS has concentrated on developing M2M technology related products including GSM/GPRS/ZigBee/Wifi, wireless and remote maintenance series product. The mission of these reliable products is to provide a better solution to lower the labor cost and maintain system more flexible.(see more)

The innovative product which combines display, operation and control in one unit!
ViewPAC is an innovative product which combines display, operation and control in one unit. ViewPAC provides perfect solutions to integrate HMI, data acquisition and control in one PAC. It overthrows traditional image that HMIs and controllers are working separately and solves many communication problems between HMIs and controllers...(see more)

Important announcement:
Taoyuan Vocational Training Center paid a visit to ICP DAS for HVAC energy conservation facility observation !
ICP DAS has devoted to industrial control and energy conservation related field for years. It is honored to invite the attendees of energy program from Taoyuan Vocational Training Center to visit ICP DAS’s head office for observing the energy conserving application for HVAC chillers on Sep 14, 2009. ...more

Important announcement:
The ICP DAS PAC Forum Tour of 2009 in China Starts !
The annual PAC forum tour held by ICP DAS ended successfully both in Shanghai and Beijing stop. This year, ICP DAS chooses “application and innovation in PAC” as the theme of the forum. First stop in Shanghai was held on Sep.16th, and the following forum in Beijing took place on Sep.24th.The forum attracted many guests from various fields such as sewage treatment、electric power、intelligent building and so on. ICP DAS has more confidence to make a brilliant performance in the following forums in Wuhan, Chengdu and Shenzen...more

New arrival:
I-8014W, the 16-bit 250K sampling rate, 8/16-channel analog input module !!
The I-8014W is an isolated high-speed analog input module. that provides jumper selectable 16-ch single-ended or 8-ch differential inputs with a sample rate of up to 250KS/s, 16-bit resolution, and isolation protection of 2500 Vrms. The I-8014W contains an impressive scan function called Magic Scan and 4K-sample onboard FIFO buffer for AD...more

Technical report :
ICP DAS provides the RTX driver for PISO-CAN Series CAN Cards to help users to develop the hard real-time application on Windows environment !!
To develop some application programs required in highly real-time system on Windows OS, IntervalZero provides an application development platform, RTX (Real Time eXtension), with a real-time runtime environment on Windows OS. In order to satisfy the users to apply the RTX system, ICP DAS provides the RTX driver for PISO-CAN series CAN card. If users want to combine the CAN communication interface in their time-critical system, the RTX driver of the PISO-CAN series CAN cards can help them to do this easily and quickly...more

The cost time is reduced on a Windows PC.

New arrival:
High Speed USB to CAN bus Converter, I-7565-H1, I-7565-H2 !!
I-7565-H1 and I-7565-H2 are the high speed intelligent USB to CAN converters with one and two CAN channels separately. They provide faster CAN bus communication performance than I-7565. Both I-7565-H1 and I-7565-H2 support CAN2.0A/2.0B protocol and different baud rates from 5 Kbps to 1 Mbps. The important feature of I-7565-H1/H2 is to support the user-defined baud rate function no matter what the baud rate is. When connecting I-7565-H1/H2 to PC, PC will load the relevant device driver automatically (hot plug & play)...more

uPAC-7186EG supports ISaGRAF SoftLogic and various I/O modules and protocols
The uPAC-7186EG is small and powerful! uPAC-7186EG supports ISaGRAF SoftLogic and various I/O modules and protocols. It is suitable in many data acquisition system and distributed monitoring and control system.

WinPAC-8841 and G-4500 Earn Taiwan Excellence Award 2009


ICP DAS USA is delighted to announce that two of its outstanding programmable automation controllers-G-4500 and WP-8841 won Taiwan Excellence 2009.

Taiwan Excellence award is Taiwan’s highest accolades for product distinction sponsored by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, R.O.C. As a first-time participant, ICP DAS is highly recognized in the competition. Two products won the Taiwan Excellence Award; demonstrating ICP DAS’s continuing endeavors in development of advanced technology and sustained growth in leading innovation. ICP DAS delivers products with excellent performance, the best quality and high stability.

“It is great to hear our main product- PAC to earn the national prize again. Different from PLC and PC based controllers, these two different controllers have been developed over half-century, but both have their own defects. As a pioneer of new controller-PAC in eastern area, ICP DAS strives to expand this new concept and hope more and more users know how convenient PAC could be.” explains Ron Huang, ICP DAS vice president.






New products released: WinPAC-8447 / 8847 controller
(Supports the ISaGRAF version 3.4x / 3.5x)! WinPAC-8447 / 8847 controller (also called WP-8447/8847)
supports ISaGRAF software version 3.4x / 3.5x . User can use the SoftLogic language such as Ladder, Function block, ST, IL, SFC and FlowChart to design the application. The WinPAC-8x47 is about 99% compatible with the Wincon-8x47 / 8x37. It has better feature and better stability than the Wincon-8x47 / 8x37






Multi-COM Ports with Programmable Device Servers

Traceability System with Zigbee Communication

EZ Data Logger 3.0.0 Released
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Includes a new simulation feature! Users can write their own control logic (VB Script).


Many new components have been added to the layout page. Virtual Channels can be modified to average several Analog Input channels.

Wincon-8xx7 can send email with an attached file

Wincon-8437/8747 and Wincon-8037/8337/8737 can send email via its Ethernet port since its ISaGRAF driver version 3.38. The Wincon must reside at a local network which can connect to the Internet, or sending email is not possible.

Controller ISaGRAF driver: http://www.icpdas.com/products/PAC/i-8000/isagraf-link.htm
Demo program: www.icpdas.com – FAQ – Software – ISaGRAF - 067

Basic functions:

Two useful ISaGRAF Application Samples Released: “Auto Time-Synchronization system” and “Auto email sending with one attached I/O-Acquisition-File System”

Use Time Synchronization and monitor the state of many ISaGRAF PACs

Please visit http://www.icpdas.com/faq/isagraf.htm FAQ-070 for more information.

This sample uses one PC to receive UDP report data from many ISAGRAF PACs. The PC can send time synchronization commands to the ISAGRAF PACs if it is necessary.

This sample demo one PC to link to two ISaGRAF PAC (can be any of W-8xx7, i-8x37, iPAC-8447 / 8847 or i-7188EG) in a local Ethernet area.

This sample uses one Wincon-8xx7 + slot 2: i-87018z to record 10-Ch. Temperature values every minute. It sends an email with the attached record file after the 24-hour recording is finished. The email is sent at around 00:00 to 00:01 every day.

This sample applies one PC to monitor the communication state of each ISaGRAF PAC in a different place and also does time synchronization. (PC / Server is not necessary if only receiving email is desired)

The PC can reside at the same local ethernet area as the W-8xx7 controller.

New Hot-Swap And Redundant Solution For The Wincon-8347 / 8747

To meet requirements of tough industrial applications, ICP DAS released the New Hot-Swa redundant solution for Wincon-8347 / 8747. This redundant system has set up two “Active IP” address points to the active W-8x47's LAN1 and LAN2 ports. One or more PC / HMI / SCADA systems can communicate with this redundant system via one of the two given active IP's. The PC / HMI / SCADA has access to the system with out any notice, on which W-8x47 is currently active. The new redundant system can integrate with the RU-87P4 and RU-87P8 expansion unit plus the I-87K high-profile I/O cards to support the hot-swap application. If any I/O card is damaged, exchange a good-card with same model name to hot-swap the damaged one without stopping the redundant system.

The system contains two Wincon-8347 or two Wincon-8747, plus two NS-205 / NS-208 (Industrial Ethernet Switch), and at least one RU-87P4 or RU-87P8 expansion base plus at least one I-87K high-profile I/O card. One W-8x47 is named as ”Main” PAC, the other is called the “Backup” PAC. The Main PAC takes the control in normal case and its LAN1 and LAN2 IP are automatically changed to the Active_IP1 and Active_IP2. If it is damaged, the Backup PAC will take the control and also change to the Active_IP1 and Active_IP2 automatically. So the PC / HMI don't care about which one is active, and just connects continuously.

This redundant system can also integrate with the Touch HMI as the following figure:



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