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Pragmatic Launches Innovative Product For Control
Applications
July 31, 2007
Source: Pragmatic
Communication Systems
Pragmatic Communication Systems,
Inc., an industry innovator in wired and wireless systems
since 1994, recently announced its newest product: Control
9™, an Octal Serial Port Hub for industrial and residential
control applications. Control 9™ provides eight downstream
asynchronous serial ports from one upstream USB Host Port,
or one upstream serial Port.
Control 9™ is a generic communication and control device
that allows a PC Host to connect to many serial devices using
either its USB port or one of its serial COM ports. Control
9™ has two upstream ports of which one is connected to
the Host PC. It also contains 8 downstream ports that are
jumper configurable for RS-232, RS-485, or 5V TTL operation.
The downstream ports are used for
communication to devices that are to be controlled. In the
RS-485 mode, Control 9™ can control as many as 256 intelligent
nodes (rooms or zones) from one USB port on the PC. The host
interface can be a Windows™, Linux™ or MAC®
based computer.
Control 9™ contains a local processor to handle to the
USB and serial communication and control functions. The Host
PC uses a set of in-band commands to control the communications
and to send or to receive data from each device. The local
processor can also be configured to intelligently and independently
handle the downstream communication protocols and periodic
events like polling or checking the status of downstream devices.
This removes the low-level communication overhead from the
Host PC.
The controlled devices can be audio/video systems, fire/smoke
detectors and sensors, alarms systems, lighting and window
shade controls, HVAC equipment, air dampers, home automation
devices, and a multitude of other uses making it the ultimate
industrial and residential control system. Control 9™
can manage all aspects of automation systems, each with different
applications.
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