National Instruments is developing new technologies targeted at industries and applications that require scalable sensor measurement systems capable of expanding to thousands of channels.
Traditional sensor measurement systems are typically predefined and inflexible, limiting channel count expansion and upgrades to new computing technologies as application requirements evolve. The new NI SC Express product family introduces sensor measurement technologies that deliver an adaptable and simplified architecture for scalable sensor measurement systems on the industry-standard PXI platform. In addition to reducing complexity, these new products offer three main advantages: better measurement accuracy, flexible synchronization, and higher data throughput.
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