Portable Data Acquisition Solutions from MCC

Portable data acquisition is simply bringing a data acquisition system to a remote location to acquire data at the source. In many cases, portable data acquisition is accomplished by using a laptop computer configured with a PCMCIA A/D data acquisition card.

Portable applications can also be designed as a special system into a ruggedized laptop with PCMCIA A/D data acquisition card or possibly in an expansion case. The actual configuration will depend on the total amount of data required to be captured, stored and manipulated.

Portable data acquisition is required when measurements are to be made at a remote location where there is no local power source or transporting a conventional PC is not appropriate. Application locations include mountaintops for weather, seismic, remote radio testing, astrometics, and other measurements. Portable data acquisition can also be used in automotive, avionics, aerospace, and oceanic applications.

With advancement of cellular technology, and the Internet, portable data acquisition finds unique partners, allowing a remote user to tap into large database without the need to bring cumbersome extra memory or resource documentation to a remote location.

Measurement Computing Corporation offers the largest selection of low-price PC-based data acquisition and measurement products. Shop our online catalog by selecting a category above. From PCI, USB, Ethernet, PC/104, ISA, and PCMCIA bus boards to external systems based on USB, RS-232, RS-422, RS-485, and GPIB interfaces; Measurement Computing has everything you need for your PC-based data acquisition and control applications.