VirtualView Remote Photometer Operation

Process instrumentation is often in another part of the plant. This requires the instrument specialist to take a time-consuming trip to make small changes in calibration or other settings. Sometimes, the analytical chemist needs to update a calibration model, but this person may be in a different group in a completely different geographic location.

Therefore, it is important to have a means to communicate with the process analyzer remotely over a secure local area network. VirtualView was designed for this purpose for Optical Solutions' brand photometers.

Features

All photometer screens appear in VirtualView
All functions (except zeroing) can be performed
Upload calibration coefficients
Upload outlier detection parameters
Upload directly from an OutlierDetect Excel calibration file
Download calibration data from the analyzer for archiving
Eliminate manual data entry transcription error


ChemView	⇔ VirtualView ⇔	OutlierDetect

VirtualView is the remote interface between the operator and a ClearView, ChemView, Simulplex or ChemViewMx photometer. Furthermore it is the interface between our OutlierDetect software in Microsoft^® Excel^® and the photometer. This enables you to access coefficients generated in OutlierDetect and upload them to the photometer remotely without having to use the programming push-buttons at the analyzer in the field. This process also eliminates transcription errors in typing in numbers like +1.4325E+01.

The buttons annotated above represent the following functions:

Save — Save all the settings as a *.asm file
Open — Open an existing *.asm file to initialize VirtualViewMx.
Import — Import the MLR coefficients and M and Q outliers from an OutlierDetect file.
Contact Us — How to contact us.
Password — Change the current VirtualViewMx Password.
Terminal — Open OSI TerminalMx program.
Upload — Upload a saved *.asm or *.hex file to the ChemViewMx.
Download — Download the configuration from the ChemViewMx to initialize VirtualViewMx.
Help — Open VirtualViewMx help files.
About — About VirtualViewMx program.
Close — Close VirtualViewMx program.
Minimize — Minimize VirtualViewMx program

All of the screens in the photometer are in VirtualView - a help for training. VirtualView uses the OSITerminal program to communicate with the Photometer.