Overview
The open-source PBCdlComm software is designed for data acquisition from PakBus-protocol based Campbell Data loggers by the Scientific Data Management team at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. This implements a significant subset of the PakBus protocol, a proprietary family of procotols created by Campbell Scientific for communication between connected devices. This work was funded by US Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement program (ARM). As an alternative for Campbell Scientific's Loggernet software, this is ideal for deploying with rugged field PCs that have limited processing resources and do not require a full-blown GUI module. The software is designed so that it can be extended to implement a new data storage mechanism, a customized post-processing module and/or integrated with web-services for sophisticated monitoring or reporting. So far, PbCdlComm has been tested with CR1000 and CR3000 dataloggers.
User manual
Presentation at ARM Science Team Meeting, 2007
Contributors
- Sutanay Choudhury, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
- Brian Ermold, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
- Matt Macduff, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Users
Our code has been used by several organizations worldwide. Please let us know if you find it useful.
- Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain.
- Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Germany
- University of Massachusetts, USA
- Manly Hydraulics Laboratory, New South Wales, Australia
- Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve, USA
- Environment Canada, Canada
- WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, Switzerland
- DESIS Servicios Tecnología Ltda. Chile
- Center for GeoSpace Studies, USA
- Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program, USA
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, USA
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
- Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Contact: sutanayDotchoudhuryAtpnnlDotgov