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  AirVision FAQ's

When is AirVision going to be released?
We are planning a release early in 2008 with a feature set at least equal to all existing products, although we may beat that schedule by a few months.

Will it be a free upgrade for existing customers?
Effectively, yes. AirVision will be licensed in various forms, including a Site version (equivalent to Digi-Trend), a Basic Edition (equivalent to E-DAS Ambient), and an Enterprise Edition (equivalent to ATX). Any users with an active support agreement will receive full credit for their licenses (and any network licenses) and effectively receive the upgrade to the equivalent base license. Users upgrading will enjoy many of the user interface enhancements, such as Editor/Report Favorites and the enhanced editor.

To take full advantage of the new communication and processing capabilities, users may elect, on their own schedule, to upgrade their base communication driver license (for Model 8816/8832s) to Enhanced Driver packages, providing direct communication to analyzers, particulate samplers, webcams, etc. Other enhanced post-processing features such as the Automated Data Validation Processor will be similarly licensed as an add-on.

How about my existing data and configuration?
We are planning data translation wizards to be part of the installation process. Our goal is to make the upgrade as painless as possible.

What if I have custom software for E-DAS?
Agilaire is endeavoring to put every current custom feature into the main software set. Your license key will identify your custom feature requirements and install them so as not to disrupt other customers' menus with unnecessary features.

What database will AirVision use?
AirVision will use .NET support for MS-SQL and Oracle, so you have three main options available to you:

  • License MS-SQL through Agilaire or your agency (SQL for Workgroups, 5 user, is about $700)
  • License Oracle through your agency (Oracle uses special resellers, so we can't offer this)
  • Use SQLExpress licensing at no charge (Digi-Trend versions will use this, small agencies can use this as well).
Using SQLExpress will limit the active database to 4GB, which correlates to a year's worth of minute data for a 100 parameter network. If you released your minute data on a more frequent basis (say, after 6 months), then you could have considerably more hourly data (30 more years). Similarly, if your agency had fewer parameters, your data retention would be longer as well. We consider it a suitable solution for DigiTrend sites and smaller agencies.

.NET? Will this be a web-based application?
Eventually it will offer web-based versions of all the reports, and some of the other tools like editors. Many users have already voiced concerns about MIIS and security, so the application will certainly note require MIIS to run (that would be bad). That may come later as an option available to you. We will be using the Smart Client features in .NET to provide automatic updates to any licensed client users.

I'm not ready to move- what happens to E-DAS Ambient?
Take your time-- we expect agencies to take at least five years to make the transition, and we'll probably have consultants and independent companies using E-DAS for another five years after that. We do plan to turn off the tap on enhancements in E-DAS once AirVision has an equivalent feature set, but we'll be offering support for a long time.

What about CLAIRE?
Whoa, whoa there Nelly, one thing at a time. Once we have AirVision well along, we do plan to do an overhaul of CLAIRE, including adding multi-language support (e.g., press 1 for English, 2 for Spanish, etc).

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