Digital IO is short for Digital Input Output. It is a method of sending or receiving electrical signals to communicate between hardware devices. These days, most communication is achieved over a network using TCP/IP, but there are still many devices that utilise this technology. Xenometric can send and receive digital IO for different purposes.
Digital IO is a standard way of controlling electrical devices, such as traffic lights. Digital IO can be used to pass information to other other hardware units, such as building management systems, that do not have a modern TCP/IP interface. These are outputs from the Xenometric software and can be triggered by various events.
We can also use digital IO to collect data from legacy counters or devices that don’t support TCP/IP. Inductive car loops can be used as a means of collecting information about vehicle traffic. The loop hardware will send an electrical pulse for each vehicle passing over the loop. Xenometric can capture these events and record the counts for reporting. Older people-counting technologies, such as IR beams, may only offer a relay output, which we can collect, aggregate and then report on.this tech