Access the power of SMART sensors and IO-Link sensors on your phone

In February, Contrinex will launch PocketCodr, a hand-held unit which links to a Smartphone app-based configurator, making it easy to explore the power of Contrinex’s high-resolution SMART inductive and photoelectric digital-measurement sensors.

Plus Automation received a PocketCodr as a Christmas present from Contrinex, and so has already been able to see how easy it makes setting up and monitoring SMART sensors. Connecting the app on a phone to a touch-screen laptop is enabling the company to demonstrate how easy it is to use the configurator on a large screen.

The PockerCodr app, which is available on the Google and Apple app stores, presents a graphical user interface, and features ‘Action Widgets’ which enable users to interact directly with sensors, see real-time parametric changes on live data charts, and store, and retrieve settings.

The PocketCodr not only simplifies the configuration and commissioning of SMART sensors, but it also allows engineers to set up and interrogate any IO-Link-enabled device. For example, Plus Automation says it has used it to reconfigure normally-open sensors into normally-closed sensors for a customer.

Contrinex’s SMART sensors offer machine designers efficiency gains, cost reductions, higher throughputs and reduced waste. SMART photoelectric sensors are soon to be launched to complement the existing SMART inductive sensors. The photoelectric sensors will offer SMART functions in addition to measuring distances up to 300mm, in either 30 x 20 x 10mm C23 cubic or M18 cylindrical bodies.