User manual VAISALA NS-60 REFERENCE GUIDE

[. . . ] NITESTAR OPERATION MANUAL Copyright © 2004 Nu-Metrics. This document contains or refers to proprietary information that is protected by copyright or patents. Copying or other reproduction of this document and associated software, for sale or distribution, is prohibited without the prior written permission of Nu-Metrics. WindowsTM is a trademark of the Microsoft® Corporation. www. nu-metrics. com Vehicle-Installed Distance Measuring Instrument S 18 W! [. . . ] The INTERVAL window will then display the Starting Value and then with the vehicle moving and the COUNT/HOLD off, the INTERVAL window will display the Count Increment value as derived from the PDI pulse output. PDI COUNT USE An example will make this function a little clearer. Many authorities are setting up 911 emergency call response systems. When a person calls for help, the Emergency Response Center can, via phone company equipment, determine the phone number of the caller. The callers address can then be determined. The Emergency Response Center can then dispatch police, fire or ambulance teams to handle the problem. This may work well except in rural areas when the addresses are undefined or Rural Route box numbers. Emergency response teams may not know how to locate the address. Rural governments are solving this problem by naming all their roads (and putting up signs) and assigning addresses to the houses on these roads. The phone numbers are then associated with a street address that police, fireman and ambulance drivers can find. How do the local governments assign these addresses?After naming the roads each house must be given a number. Each house can not be numbered consecutively since new houses will probably be built between existing houses and these places will need numbers. If a standard lot width is determined (say 50') then every 50 feet assign a new address. This way you can number the houses now and when new houses are added you can give them numbers in the correct order. (continued. . . ) SET COUNT INCREMENT The Count Increment number is the amount of PDI pulses required to increment the count displayed in the interval window. If you set a PDI distance of 50 feet and a count increment of 1 you will see the count displayed in the interval window every 50 feet. You MUST set the count increment for the display PDI count function to be displayed. To set the increment count value depress the following sequence of keys: 8PDI key, 7SPEED key, and choose the INCREMENT DISTANCE. Please note that after you press the "7 SPEED" key, the default "1" will appear. At this time, re-enter whatever value you choose. While entering increment distance depressing CLEAR/RST key will set the distance and PDI count to 0. While Count Increment is running the INTERVAL will NOT be displayed. 24 25 The DMI can be used to assist in this process. Begin your distance at the start of the road and at each house divide the distance by 50, for example, and you have the number. [. . . ] If you do not do this step the NS-60 will print all data on the same line on the screen. After you have said OK to the above dialog then pick PROPERTIES and you will set the ASCII properties. Pick the Append line feeds to incoming line ends then click OK on each box to save the settings. Finally pick Exit on Hyperterminal and then you will see you now have a connection ICON for the Nitestar. [. . . ]