Advanced NMEA Data Logger - Compare features

Introduction

Advanced NMEA Data Logger supplies a cut down version called Advanced NMEA Data Logger Standard. This version omits some of the advanced features found in the enterprise edition and is ideal for users who either want a low cost solution or are not interested in more advanced features.

This page lists the principal features of Advanced NMEA Data Logger and identifies those features that are not available in Advanced NMEA Data Logger Standard.

Advanced NMEA Data Logger Standard sells for 50% of the cost of the enterprise version. Users can upgrade to the standard version at any time, simply by paying the difference in price between the versions. The actual software is identical, since the software protection key is used to configure all versions. A code can be sent by email that allows the user to upgrade the software.

Feature set

The following table illustrates the main features in Advanced NMEA Data Logger and shows which of these are eliminated from the Standard version:

Feature	Enterprise	Standard
General
Variable data receive	Yes!	Yes!
Multiple RS232, TCP/IP or UPD ports at same time	Yes!	Yes!
Different settings for each port	Yes!	Yes!
Output received data without any changes to file	Yes!	Yes!
Variable format file forming setting (on time, data, size and etc.)	Yes!	Yes!
Log rotation	Yes!	Yes!
Log deletion	Yes!	Yes!
Configurable log file access	Yes!	Yes!
Auto program restart in showed time	Yes!	Yes!
Auto serial port reinitialization in showed time	Yes!	Yes!
Program message logging	Yes!	Yes!
Simple, menu-driven step by step set-up	Yes!	Yes!
Capability to run multiple instances simultaneously so that multiple ports can be logged	Yes!	Yes!
Save settings to INI-file	Yes!	Yes!
Save settings to Windows registry	Yes!	Yes!
On-line help	Yes!	Yes!
Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 service mode
Windows NT/2000/XP service	Yes!	Yes!
Starts as soon as the operating system starts and doesn't require a user to log in and run it	Yes!	Yes!
Data export plugins
Requests out the serial port to control or query your instruments	Yes!
Advanced data parser that allows you to parse, filter and format more complex data from more sophisticated devices	Yes!
Data export to any ODBC-compatible database	Yes!
DDE and OPC server	Yes!
Direct connection (use OLE) to Microsoft Excel and write data directly to rows or columns	Yes!
Write parsed data to a file of Microsoft Excel, RTF, HTML, CSV , DIFF, SYLK, Plain text, Windows Clipboard, XML, DBF, PDF, Lotus 1-2-3 and Quttro formats	Yes!
Events plugins
Sort of plugins that can handle internal events of Advanced NMEA Data Loger software and put log files to a remote server for example.	Yes!
Data filter plugins
Expressions plugin allows to use math,string and boolean expression on parsed variables.	Yes!
Deadband provides a method to exclude less significant data records from the final data export.	Yes!
Aggregator is an additional module that collecting data from several different parsed data records into one common data record.	Yes!
Price (EUR)	65	35

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