KINESIX HAS UNVEILED Sammi 4.0, the latest version of its Dynamic Data Visualisation Tool (DDVT) for command and control applications.
Sammi is already widely used in the aerospace industry for applications such as air traffic and spacecraft control. Customers include Aerospatiale, Alenia, Eurocontrol, the European Space Agency, NASA, the US Air Force and the US Navy.
The upgrade is designed to allow real-time data, previously only available to "control-room" staff, to be easily distributed to operational support and management personnel throughout an organisation.
The so-called "enterprise solution" means that data can be delivered across a network to numerous workstations from a single file server. Individual users can then define the way in which they want the data to be presented in graphical form, using a Microsoft Windows-style "drag and drop" environment.
"It's a real step forward," claims Matthew Brady, marketing manager for US-based Kinesix in the UK. "Sammi is now also supporting members of management that previously didn't have access to that information."
The traditional benefit of using Sammi is that it allows operational data to be displayed graphically without the need for additional software code. This is because the application software which processes "raw" data is kept completely separate from the graphics application.
Data can also be distributed across the network very quickly as they are delivered "by exception", meaning the graphics display is only updated when a particular value has actually changed, rather than at routine intervals.
Source: Flight International