Field Station

Cornerstone Field Station software provides a portable extension of Base Station capabilities for transport of instrument configuration and calibration data to and from field locations. Utilize Field Station to configure, test, and calibrate smart or conventional instruments located remotely from your Base Station.

Use the calibration route management features of Base Station’s Docking window to build routes for Download to your Field Stations. Downloads combine instrument configuration data with the assigned calibration scheme procedures and criteria for each instrument in the route. Detailed Base Station reports document the work assigned to each Field Station.

All on-line Calibrator Interface Libraries (CalLibs) that are installed on your Base Station are also installed on Field Station. CalLibs allow you to perform semi-automated on-line calibrations in the field, with direct connections between the field station computer, the calibrator, and the instrument.

Upon completion of parts or all of the downloaded calibration route, maintenance history data for those instruments is uploaded into the Base Station database. This integrates all field generated data back into the single central historical record maintained on your Base Station system.

Field Station Functions

	Database, History, Conventional, and HART Comm window functions similar to Base Station
	Use as an alternative to a HART hand-held communicator
	Use Base Station CalLibs to connect to calibrators and perform on-line calibrations
	Use all Base Station ModLibs to provide instrument specific support for HART^â instruments
	Add new smart instruments to the central database simply by connecting them to Field Station
	Eliminate clipboards by using the Manual CalLib for immediate one-time entry of field data from stand-alone calibrators

Field Station Capacity

	Database holds up to 500 instruments and calibrators
	Retains history for three connections per instrument before upload is required

Download-Upload

	Field Station instrument routes are built and downloaded using the Docking window on a Base Station
	Base Station route management features track status of Field Station routes
	Base Station can support multiple Field Stations
	Field Station calibration results and new or modified instrument parameters are uploaded back to Base Station
	Upload and download is done via a user specified file path
	Common transfer mechanism is a single 1.4MB diskette
	Upload and download via removable media (e.g. diskette) allows data exchange with remote locations by mail or courier
	File transfers can also be done via LAN, wired or wireless
	Upload can include the entire Field Station database or just data that is new or was modified in the field
	Results can be returned to the Base Station in multiple uploads as work is completed

Field Station HART Interface

Single instrument connection is provided by any of the following optional HART modems:

MACTek Viator^ä RS-232

MACTek Viator^ä PCMCIA card

Other HART modems

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This site was last updated on 22 February 2000.