Small Project Design

General Discussion Projects
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We are set to begin work on a project which involves some of NCD’s hardware. We wanted to give NCD an overview of the design to have expertise confirmation that our objectives are reasonable. We intend to implement the following:

Use Visual Studio similar to NCD Alpha Station software on an existing PC. Our application will need the provided NCD drivers to create a custom UI built in C# and WPF.
Use the USB-Wifi modem (SKU PR55-17A) for communication with IoT devices.
Add a IoT Long Range Wireless Multi Channel Dry Contact Closure Transmitter (SKU PR52-18_CC) in an existing enclosure which will be approximately 300’
from the the wireless modem. We would also like to power this device from a 24VDC power supply.
Add a Wireless 4-Channel IoT Relay Controller 10-Amp endNode (SKU ASM1-3) in an existing enclosure which will be approximately 500’ from the wireless
modem. We would also like to power this device from a 24VDC power supply.

As far as functionality, is the chosen hardware and software reasonable.

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Hi Jeremy,

Yes, you can open a COM port to the USB modem and receive data from the wireless sensors via that connection. Alternatively this can be done over a TCP socket for the WiFi interface.

Alpha Station is open source so you can download the source code and import libraries as needed into your own application.

Honestly however I would highly recommend investigating Node-Red as we have far more resources and can provide better support for that.

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Thank you very much. We will consider that.