Particle Vision® Online V2.0 Monitoring Software: A clear vision of your process/facility 

Features
• Simple, easy-to-use interface with superior graphing features
• User-expandable system; easy to add more particle counters, measurements, custom reports and computers
• For Met One, Royco and HIAC particle counters and systems
• Designed for Microsoft Windows NT, compatible with Windows 95/98, a true 32-bit multithreaded design for maximum performance and reliability
• Plug-n-Play makes hardware setup easy
• Use third-party environmental sensors, control signals, and alarm lights/sirens via DDE
• Smart Monitoring—data storage rate will automatically adjust during process events and changes in trend slope
• Includes full relational database management system: Sybase Adaptive Server Anywhere™ and full built-in report capabilities using Crystal Reports™
• Automatic data backup and archive while sampling
• Backed by a full selection of optional on-site services including engineering, validation, training, and integration

Particle Vision® Online (PVO) transforms sensor data into a meaningful vision of your gas/liquid process or cleanroom facility. This software is easy-to-learn and easy-to-use, without sacrificing power or flexibility. Measurements from third-party sensors and PLCs can be included via DDE inputs to create a complete online monitoring system.

Designed specifically for particle counters, PVO V2.0 is a second-generation product with proven reliability. Measurement values appear in the Measurements Explorer on the left side of the screen, revealing the current condition of your facility or process. Use the instant graphs to simultaneously view and scroll through 16 trends - on a single clean display. Each graph can display from 3 to 44 days1 of data at once, or more than one year using statistical measurements. To view a different graph, simply select it and Particle Vision Online will instantly switch the display. Drag the mouse to zoom into selected data events.

Using the point and click interface, you can create descriptive names for each of the particle counters, customize the measurements, and control the organization of the measurement display. Customizable report groups give the flexibility of choosing which measurements and statistics to include in reports. Setup as many custom reports as you wish.

Measurements
Cumulative or differential particle counts
Environmental parameters via DDE (e.g., temperature, relative humidity, differential pressure, air velocity, closed/open sensors, etc.)
Calculations of Log removal, beta ratio, percent difference, count concentration, dilution scaling, flow rate scaling, difference, and sum
Statistical reductions of measurements: average, minimum, maximum, and standard deviation
Manual input of values from "virtual" sensors for data entry from off-line devices such as laboratory instruments, manually controlled dilution systems, or microscope and chemical tests
Monitoring of process control signals via DDE or particle counter analog inputs to automatically set Out-of-Service and Process profiling software states; Out-of-Service can also be set manually on-screen; Software can also generate control output signals to control your process or facility
The Measurements Explorer display uses the standard Windows Explorer metaphor to reveal the status and critical value for each measured location in your facility/process

Alarming
Four alarm levels for each measurement
User-selectable alarm delays and automatic acknowledge after specified time period
Statistical alarms using online statistical measurements
Alarm notes and acknowledgement tracking including "acknowledged by", reason, when acknowledged, length of time to acknowledgement, etc.
Alarm light/siren control, including grouping alarms per annunciator and controlling annunciator behavior based on acknowledgement and alarm state.

Graphs
Clean display of one, two, three, or four stacked trend graphs with all legends, labels, and scales clearly visible; Superior to most monitoring systems that only display one graph at a time
Selection and instant display of unlimited graphs (Enterprise version) from the main screen
Drag-to-Zoom both graph axes (time and value); Single-click unzoom
Synchronized scrolling of displayed, stacked graphs (Scroll Lock™) using true time-based scrolling; Each graph can have different time periods displayed; Scroll and compare past-to-present (i.e. previous vs. current) or present-to-present (different measurements and locations)
Click to display value of individual graph points (i.e. on-screen callout)
Easy landscape or portrait graph printing; Customize graph presentation features such as labels and scales
Extremely fast graphing of long time periods using online statistical measurements (month, yearly trends)

Reports

Automatic printing of unlimited user-customized reports per day
On demand reports sent to screen, printer, or file
Customize reports by selecting title, measurements, statistics, and statistical interval (i.e. hourly, daily, etc.)
Extremely fast reporting of long time periods (monthly, yearly) using online statistical measurements
Custom compliance and statistical report types are available

Three Editions of Particle Vision Online

Small System Edition: Perfect as a low-cost small monitoring system, with connections for a few alarm annunciators and environmental sensors. Primarily, the Small System Edition is a particle counting system for 16 locations.

Standard Edition: This edition is a full SCADA system that operates on a single computer. With a large capacity for 64 particle counter locations and unlimited DDE connections for environmental sensors and PLCs, this edition has the capacity for most monitoring needs. Standard Edition provides advanced monitoring capabilities such as statistical measurements and Smart Monitoring©, which adjusts data storage based on data events/trends or the process state.

Enterprise Edition: This edition is capable of monitoring a complete enterprise with multiple facilities in different geographic locations (WAN). Enterprise Edition can also be used on a local area network inside a single facility (LAN). The number of client computers (i.e. view stations) is unlimited. For systems with hundreds of particle counter instruments, this edition offers unlimited sensor capacity, plus all the features of the Standard Edition. Three software programs comprise the Enterprise Edition: Raw Data Server, Database Server, and two Clients. Please refer to the comparison chart on the next page.

Optional Add-On Utilities

PVO Mirage (Alarms to be displayed on an image, i.e. facility map or process image.)
Autodialer/Pager Utility
Configuration Authentication Utility
DDE Server Software for PLCs

For an on-site demonstration or a free demonstration CD, please contact the nearest office.

1 Using the 1 to 15 minute storage rate. 2 Dynamic Data Exchange. 3 Programmable Logic Controllers
* Free disk space allows for database growth over time

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