Lightbox

Six years have passed since I start my degree in telecommunication engineering. But today I see the end, the last effort.

My End-of-degree project is titled: Development of an application in LabVIEW for data acquisition and treatment on MicronOptics instruments, sm125 and sm130. As you can read I developed an application in, I think, the most powerful environment for instrumentation and data work: LabVIEW.

The capabilities of MicronOptics devices are based on the fiber Bragg grating (FBG) technology. It can measure strain or temperatures or even acceleration only with one optic fiber that can be of hundreds of kilometers length. The reduced cost of this technology for some purposes and the advantages of the light to measure without noise is the cause of some companies are investing in these devices.

My work consisted in develop Lightbox for these devices: Lightbox is an application that can retrieve data by an TCP/IP connection with the sm125 &sm130 devices and process it to get adjusted information. Next it can write it into memory or you can see the information in a panel of graphs.

All developed with LabVIEW 2009. In two months of work you can have a complete software running, the time saved and the reduced cost of developing is the most attractive characteristic of LabVIEW software.

In conclusion: This project let me know LabVIEW deeper and I’m so satisfied with the result.

In the future I will post some entries to analyze the high degree of complexity of this software.