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Latest News- Always Being Updated!
Agilaire Offers Turnkey Package for Roadside Monitoring
$40,000, ready to plug in. See more here.
Version 1.0.5 Released, Version 2.0 (AV-Trend) Going to Beta Soon
See the wiki for full release notes.
New Agencies Join The AirVision Family
The release of AirVision has brought new agencies into the Agilaire user family, drawn to AirVision's new advanced capabilities. We welcome our new users, including the Monitoreo Atmosferico of Mexico City, Slippery Rock University, and Platte Environmental Systems.
Early 2010 AirVision Training Dates Announced
Click here.
Been thinking about a turnkey monitoring shelter for your new site?
You have more choices, in what has been a limited list of suppliers. Let Agilaire help you with that new site (or refitting an existing site), with 100% digital integration! Click here.
Agilaire Now on GSA Contract For Easier Purchasing
You can now find us on GSA Advantage under Contract #
GS-07F-0029W
AirVision 1.0.1 In Final Testing / Wiki Re-Launched (October, 2009)
After our initial good reviews, we moved forward with fixes and enhancements based on customer feedback. Of course, AirVision is a product that will undergo continuous improvements driven by you- the end users. To accomplish this, we have relaunched the online wiki (originally used for pre-relese design review by a group of early adopters), opening it to all AirVision users for comment, enhancement requests, ideas, and suggestions.
The wiki will also serve as the main location for support downloads, technical notes, workarounds, etc.
After Version 1.0.1 is released (approx Nov 1, 2009), we will hunker down for a more steady release schedule, probably running 4 to 8 months between major releases, although the next release will be towards the shorter end, focusing on an upgrade path for Digi-Trend site PCs.
AirVision Released (August, 2009)
We're burning the CDs today and working on the mailers, with the first CDs
to go in the mail Friday. We found a few more things to fix in our final
testing, but took advantage of the time to fill out some more features we
were planning to put in Version 1.1 (data archive/purge, SQL query tool).
We also had time to do some initial compatibility testing with Server 2008 and
SQL 2008. Although we will continue more detailed testing on these platforms,
we don't see any compatibility issues at this time. We will be starting
compatibility testing with Windows 7 next week as well, since it looks like
the future for mid-platform hardware.
We're all very excited, and working on our plans for Version 1.1, probably
to follow in 6-8 weeks. That version will clean up less essential items,
such as the option to send reports to a disk file, direct download of the
Modbus server.cfg file to the logger, an editor for user-defined GSI drivers,
and improvements to the Sample Data Editor. After that, the focus will be on
the AirVision Site Nodes, to provide an upgrade option for Digi-Trend PCs and
offer direct data synchronization between site nodes and the central server.
We'll be posting product plans on the web site for future versions in the
next two weeks.
AirVision Beta Released (May, 2009)
AirVision is now in the hands of our dedicated beta testers, and getting its field trials. We have selected a broad range of customers (3 government, 1 private, 1 running alternate loggers, NCore sites, etc) to give us the broadest spectrum of testing.
Our expectation is to stick with the June release date, the major critical path now being making the installation and data/configuration translation process as smooth as possible. The beta test uncovered a number of issues that we have addressed, but taking an extra 2-3 weeks out of our schedule.
Finally, we are putting the final touches on our Transition Training and documentation for our customers. Looking forward to June!
Agilaire Continues to Roll Out Advanced Data Management NCore Sites
Agilaire's flexible approach to digital data acquisition has paid off well for agencies facing the challenge of piecing together equipment for the new NCore monitoring initiative. We face a mix of serial-only devices, Ethernet devices, and (still) legacy devices that don't offer digital outputs or for which the digital interface offers no advantage and only drawbacks. Agilaire's flexible Digital Instrument Wizard and its embrace of the more standard Modbus interface has provided a relatively seamless integration (given the complexity!) and the best engineered solution for over a dozen agencies facing the challenge. Need help? That's what we're here for.
Agilaire Offers Wireless, Paperless Forms For Field Activities
CATS, the Component and Activity Tracking System. allows you
to use Windows Mobile devices (or your site PC) to manage assets, parts, consumables,
and maintenance activities, with a central web-based system for synchronization and
reports. CATS will even offer a way to use your mobile device or site PC for all
those monthly and quarterly QA/QC checks (we'll find a nice way to recycle all those
clipboards, we promise). Click here for more details.
Agilaire To Offer Ethernet Digital Acquisition Training at Region IV Conference
Do you have new instruments with Ethernet ports, but don't know how to utilize them? Need to know how to build that in-shelter network? Don't miss the boat- Ethernet digital data acquisition IS the real way to do digital data acquisition (RS-232 is the "primative baby step" and is frought with design problems). Agilaire will be providing a training free at the Region IV conference, and we are always offering Digital Data Acquisition training programs at our offices.
Agilaire Works With EPA on New Real-Time Metals Monitor Interface (Sept 2008)
Cooper Environmental and the State of Missouri are working to test a new real-time PM / metals monitor, and Agilaire was able to use its flexible Digital Interface environment to adapt to the instrument in a matter of days. It would have been a matter of minutes, but the manufacturer needed to rearrange the internal registers a few times. That's the benefit of well-engineered products from Agilaire! To see the real-time data on the web, click here.
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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So How Is That New Name Pronounced Anyway?
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