Here is an interesting trick that allows you to monitor your Windows processes with KSX. You can leverage the KSX shell function with the Windows tasklist command.

The following windows batch code will return the memory use of the ksxserver.exe application.

@echo off
tasklist /fo table /nh /fi "imagename eq ksxserver.exe" > tasklist.txt

His Excellency José Goñi, Chilean Ambassador to the United States, made a visit to Utah on October 8th & 9th. KnowledgeScape had the privilege of being the only Utah business on his itinerary. We were able to visit with the ambassador and discuss our services and software, KSX. Read more...

If you have an HMI, you have a visualization and interface tool to aid you in your operation and decision making. Your HMI presents you with the data that you need to operate your process. In the process of installing and designing the HMI you have decided what data the operators, engineers, and/or management need to make the necessary decisions to best suit your business. You may have aggregated data or shown the state of some piece of equipment, etc. All of this data has been designed so that people in your organization can make the right choice. Read more...

If you use Wonderware, or any of the other HMI's commonly used we're looking for you. KSX is designed to add intelligence to every and anything. Through our industry standard OPC bridge it is extremely simple to connect our KSX to your HMI. By doing so you now can make any of the equipment you monitor and control intelligent. Intelligent, rule based alarming is a snap. Intelligent set point decisions using the best heuristics possible can relentlessly monitor your process pushing performance to the highest possible levels possible. Read more...

An expert control system, as we think of them, is an expert system, or artificial intelligence program, that has been specifically created to monitor and control some kind of processing plant in real-time. They are sometimes also referred to as a supervisory control program although supervisory control is not usually thought to utilize artificial intelligence components. Read more...

We just received another award. Its always great to get a little recognition!

One element of building automation that I would like to explore further is the concept of just-in-time temperature control. In my last post I gave an overview of how KSX fits into the overall building automation sphere. Now I would like to press further into some details. Read more...

I like the definition of and expert system found in Wikipedia. Paraphrasing, they define an expert system as software that attempts to reproduce the performance of one or more human experts in a specific problem domain, and that they are an example of a traditional application artificial intelligence. Read more...

One area where we are very excited about the potential of KSX is building automation. Specifically, optimization of energy consumption for large buildings. A great deal of work has been done to standardize the communication protocols used in building automation. This allows for complete integration of HVAC, lighting, network and communications and security systems in a way that hasn't been possible in the past. Much of the push for this unification was for HMI (human machine interfaces) and data logging but can be capitalized upon for optimization as well. Read more...