Vista Data Vision

Vista Data Vision is software application for handling data collected from data loggers. It origins from design work by Vista Engineering in Iceland in 1991, where LabVIEW applications on Mac 512k computer and using communications based on Packet Radio running AX-25 protocol on UHF band was used to collect data from a group of sewer pump stations spread around the city of Reykjavik. The communications were texed-based master-slave type, where memory locations in Telemecanique PLC's were read. Information included running hours, alarms and power in kW. This was quite advanced for its time, and earned the company the Award of Excellence at the NI Week 1995 held in Austin Texas.
In 1999 the software had been developed further and the communications part was used to transfer data from the Austin TX to Richmont CA as part of energy efficience program run by Planergy International.
In 2004 a suite of applications was marketed for international users which would work with data collected from Campbell Scientific's range of dataloggers and publish it to the Internet, this was the start of Vista Data Vision (VDV) and referred to as version 1. In 2005 version 2 was ready but it was first with VDV version 3 that the software applications were ready as off the shelf product for small and large projects. Other versions were version 3.4 in 2007, version 4.0 in 2008, version 4.5 in 2008 and version 5.0 in 2009. VDV users are now found in all continentals.
Users of VDV are in several categories:
* Geotechnical - Like monitoring the Tasankov Kaman Dam in Bulgaria and part of the new subway tunnel in NYC
* Wind Farm - Like wind monitoring at the Fantanele farm in Romania
* Education facilities - Like University of South Carolina Baufort and University of Auckland, New Zealand
* Bridges - Like monitoring of bridges of Seattle
* Environmental - Like New Jersey Meadowslands Commission, NJ, USA
* Irrigation - Like Tumalo Irrigation District in Bend, OR.
Many of the web sites running VDV are open to public. These are few of the web sites:
* US Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service
* DRI, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, USA
* US Army Corps of Engineering, Fort Wainwright, Alaska, USA, choose interactive database.

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