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The goal of i.CanDoIt® is to provide a simple and cost effective facility management and remote monitoring solution suitable for use in small sites. The i.CanDoIt® has no site licenses or installation fees. The only software tool needed is a web browser. The i.CanDoIt® is programmable, even though it is rather powerful without programming.
Conceptually, i.Board® i.CanDoIt® is a big spread sheet. It is register oriented just like Modbus, even though the registers are accessible in ways other than Modbus, such as SNMP. When data is provided by SNMP, or obtained from local I/O, the data is placed into generic registers that are universally accessible to features of the system.
i.Board® i.CanDoIt® includes template or rule based alarm processing with email notification and/or I/O activation in response to events. The resulting register manipulation may generate network communication with remote devices, control local I/O, or change setpoints for example.
i.Board® i.CanDoIt® is user programmable using Script Basic. Once a program has been created, it can be selected as the auto-boot program, meaning this program will automatically run every time i.Board boots up.
The i.CanDoIt® web server includes a large number of predefined web pages for configuration and monitoring. Support is also provided for user defined web pages using HTML and JavaScript. Any of the data registers are accessible to user defined web pages via internal CGI processing of user tags. This allows a fully customized look and feel for the system.