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Latest News- Always Being Updated!
New Agilaire Network in South America (April, 2008)
Agilaire has been selected as the provider for a new 12-station monitoring network for the city of Santiago, Chile. Thanks to the city of Santiago and our partners in Chile for working through the technical details and making this a reality. We look forward to the network starting up this summer.
Updates for New Ozone Standard (April, 2008)
E-DAS Ambient can be easily adjusted for the new 75 ppb ozone standard through the AQI Levels editor. The Violation of Standards editor needs a small update, which can be downloaded by clicking here.
Gene Furrow Joins Agilaire! (Feb 2008)
We're happy to announce further expansion of our development staff with the addition of Gene Furrow. Gene joined ESC in 1994, and will now be working with Agilaire as a Senior Developer. He brings lots of ambient experience to us, and is up to date on the latest development tools utilized in our AirVision development (C#, .NET, etc). Welcome aboard, Gene!
AirVision Update (Nov 2007)
Our more recent meetings with customers have taken the vision beyond a simple upgrade from E-DAS/ATX to a platform for handling many new data streams, especially in air toxics, and, for some agencies, spatially integrating soil and water data with PM/air data. Some of the new functions planned include:
• Expansion of the Generic File Import Tool to parse header columns in files
• Support of spatial data types for future GIS mapping applications
• Ability to link files to annotations (e.g., chain of custody)
• User defined acquired data units vs. reporting units (e.g., data collected as PPM, report as PPB, or vice-versa). This is becoming essential since most digital instrument interfaces are fixed at providing either PPM or PPB reporting.
• Faster handling of data access for editing/reporting functions.
To minimize the delay in the release schedule, we've pushed as much of the new capability work as possible to Version 2, but much of these additional requirements affects the database and system design to the extent that we've had to rethink and refactor some of the work done so far to build a solid foundation. To put it another way, we need to pull up some stakes and move the tent to a better spot if we're going to get a good night's sleep.
We strongly feel these changes and the additional delay will be worthwhile, given the long view we have for AirVision. Rather than an end-of-year release, we are now planning to release AirVision in March/April 2008 *with* full E-DAS/ATX equivalency plus about 40% of the planned enhancements. Version 2, with the remaining planned enhnacements would be issued in the fall.
E-DAS Ambient Supports Field Blank Records in AQS
Contact Rena in Support if you would like the supplement to handle this.
NCORE Page Opened
Pre-built site templates for Ncore sites can be found here.
AgileWeb! For E-DAS Ambient 5.52
Our next release will come with a major enhancement to the WebToolkit- AgilWeb!, a complete turnkey web site. Read more about it here.
Did You Miss Us At The Monitoring Conference?
You can download the presentation about digital data acquisition and AirVision here.
Agilaire New Team Member: Bob Trull
Many previous ESC customers remember receiving training from Bob Trull. Agilaire is glad to announce Bob coming on board to support our trainings, as well as project installations and... well, his capabilities are far and wide, so who knows? We plan for Bob to receive detailed orientation from Tekran on their ambient monitoring line, so Agilaire will be able to offer training on the Tekran instruments for customers here in the U.S.
Agilaire Conference Fall Schedule
- NUMUG (Nuclear Utilties Meteorological User Group)- October 11-13
- Carolinas APCA Fall Meeting- October 18-20, Myrtle Beach
- NADP Meeting- October 24-26, Norfolk
- National Monitoring Conference- November 2006, Las Vegas
Tachi Yokut Tribal Monitoring Joins Agilaire User Family
Welcome to the newest member of the Agilaire user community!
Santa Barbara County APCD Joins ATX Users
Santa Barbara County APCD is upgrading the VAX-based RAQS system originally installed by ESC (circa 1990) with E-DAS ATX. Their upgrade also includes migrating twelve air monitoring sites to the latest Model 8832 data logger. We welcome SBCAPCD to our ATX group of users!
CLAIRE Updates
CLAIRE users will soon be able to use standard .WAV files, that can be recorded and edited outside of the CLAIRE software! Check out the product plans on our Support Site.
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