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Industrial Instant Messaging System

Every day millions of people use instant messaging systems (IMS) all around the planet.  The purpose of these systems is to communicate at least two persons from point to point, through a chat conversation.  Examples of IMS are Short Message Service (SMS), Whatsapp, Skype, and Telegram.  The typical characteristics of these systems are a transmitter and a receiver at both…

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An Easy Way of Implementing IIOT

We perceive the world through our senses.  We react to our environment accordingly to what we feel.  The idea of becoming deaf or blind is not attractive, but we would like to possibility of getting superpowers like x-ray vision or sharp hearing. The purpose of the Internet of Things (IOT) is to give us these superpowers, to allow us to…

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BackStaff as a Mobile Historian Client

BackStaff applications are capable of connecting to Historian software as a Historian Client. A Historian is a stand-alone software or a module within a SCADA software that is capable of storing time series of values for thousands of variables, or tags as they are also known. Historians store information in a relational database like MS SQL, Oracle, or MySQL.  However,…

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BackStaff: A tool to navigate through your daily activities

BackStaff is software for helping people to get closer to information.  Every day millions of persons in the world go to work with different responsibilities. Nonetheless, everyone’s work is measured somehow through different metrics.  These metrics or indicators helps to see how is the organization performance.  Examples of these metrics are sales growth, machine efficiency, total production, stock value, to…

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