NEW DEVELOPMENTS AT COSYLAB

The word Cosylab stands for Control System Laboratory, which implies that new developments and technologies are at the centre of our efforts, as we have proven in previous conferences. In this article, we present the highlights of our new developments since the last PCaPAC conference and how they fit together as a whole. The main guideline is simplification for the user, be it the control system developer or the user of the control system. In order to achieve this, we have developed and improved such diverse components as a series of generic client applications, a native Java implementation of the EPICS channel access protocol, implemented load balancing and failover in ACS, replaced an expensive commercial tool with Visual DCT and developed a plug & play control system box with an embedded computer for integrating external devices. The presentation will conclude with successful examples of our technology transfer into other fields of computing and information technologies, such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS), which is becoming a new challenging field for Cosylab.