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Energy and power generation has evolved into one of the key growth industries of the 21st century. Customers depend on VTI Instruments data acquisition and monitoring instruments and AMETEK Programmable Power supplies to deliver the accuracy and precision required to develop highly efficient and reliable products and gain a competitive edge in the global energy market.

For multi-channel data acquisition systems, getting the correct readings in the correct timed order is crucial. System designers have two options for acquiring data in a deterministic fashion. They can use a real-time operating system (RTOS), that has a known buffer delay/ processing order or acquire data with a time-stamp for every sample and use precise hardware triggers and an accurate clock.

Power over Ethernet (POE) is a technology that enables network cables to carry the electrical power required by the end devices to which they are connected. One of the features that makes the EX1401 16-Channel Isolated Thermocouple and Voltage Measurement Instrument so useful is that can derive is power from Ethernet ports that support POE.