One Software For All Testing Applications

Our core philosophy is one software for all test and measurement applications. DewesoftX is the result of this philosophy. It combines data recording features from several data interfaces as well as packs very strong signal processing features.

The software offers advanced data recording, data analysis, data visualization,  reporting features, and everything in between in a single easy-to-use software suite. This approach introduces many improvements to your daily test and measurement work. Learn less, do more, and most importantly, do it faster. The option to expand to new applications without investing in new hardware will save you time and money.

Input Interfaces and Data Sources

DewesoftX software is unique in terms of supported data interfaces. No other data acquisition software can match a number of supported interfaces that can be acquired fully synchronized, stored, and visualized in the same data file. We support:

• Analog data: voltage, current, IEPE, charge, strain, thermocouples, PTx, potentiometer, LVDT, resistance, and more.

• Digital data: digital counters and encoders of any kind.

• Video: from low-cost DirectX compatible cameras and GoPro cameras to high-speed video hardware synchronized to analog data, ultra-high-speed cameras from Photron, and thermal IR imaging from OPTRIS.

• Navigational interfaces: GNSS receivers. Inertial Measurement Systems (IMU and INS), Gyro platforms.

• Vehicle bus systems: CAN bus, CAN FD, LinBus, Sent, FlexRay, XCP/CCP, Kistler Wheels, ADMA, etc.

• Aerospace interfaces: PCM telemetry, ARINC 429, MIL-STD-1553, IRIG-106 Chapter 10, iNet.

• Industrial bus systems: OPC UA, Ethernet, Modbus, Siemens S7, serial.

No Hidden Licensing Costs or Fees

We offer a very flexible software licensing model with no hidden costs, yearly renewable contracts, or software update fees. When you buy our data acquisition system the DewesoftX software is always included. The license is stored on the DAQ device. This gives you the flexibility to connect the device to any computer and DewesoftX will automatically read the license from the connected device.

The license is required only when acquiring and storing data using the DAQ device. DewesoftX is completely free in analyze mode. This means that once your data is stored you can share, open, and analyze it with as many people and computers as you need. No additional license is needed. Simply download DewesoftX and open the data file.

The same license applies to remote-view clients in distributed measurement applications. You can have unlimited view clients for monitoring the data without any additional software licenses. 

Built-in Help Manual and Online Training Courses

Got lost? Don't worry, we have you covered. DewesoftX software includes a built-in help manual that is available anywhere within the software by pressing the F1 button. It will always bring up the manual for the current section in the software.

Next to the manual we also offer free online training courses. These training courses are carefully crafted and cover courses for:

• Connect: Learn how to get started with Dewesoft data acquisition hardware and DewesoftX software.

• Measure: Learn how to measure different signals like the voltage, current, vibration, strain, temperature, etc.

• Analyze: Learn how to analyze measures signals. Power analysis, FFT, modal analysis, and many others.

• Develop: Learn how to extend DewesoftX software by using our available developer tools.

Quality Assured With Agile and Continuous Integration Development

We put a lot of effort into searching for a scalable development process that would keep the quality of software at the highest possible level. We looked at Microsoft, Apple, and Google. The process is called agile development.

Agile development is a set of values and principles. It increases flexibility and delivery. Software testing is crucial for continuous development. Each line of code is automatically tested with thousands of test cases that are running all the time. For this, we have invented the infrastructure that is called the darkroom.

When a developer changes something in the source code, the darkroom takes over and automatically compiles the new code. It runs the test cases and gives back the results to developers in a few minutes. A complete suite of tests takes a few hours.

Analog Sensors

DewesoftX can acquire, store, and analyze data from almost any analog sensor using Dewesoft data acquisition hardware.  

When the data acquisition device is connected to the computer running DewesoftX software it will automatically detect it and display the list of available analog channels. 

Analog channels can have different modes, depending on the type of amplifier used in the DAQ hardware. Modes can be voltage, current, IEPE, charge, strain (full, half, quarter-bridge modes, 120/350 Ohm ), etc.

TEDS sensor technology is used for sensor autodetection and automatic channel configuration.

Each analog channel has software selectable features like sampling rate, name, color, unit, sensor, amplifier settings, and filtering with live signal preview.

Counter, Encoder and Digital Inputs

DewesoftX offers a digital counter interface available on many Dewesoft data acquisition instruments. All counter inputs utilize our patented technology SuperCounters® which allows very precise timing and counting measurement.

Each counter input can capture counting, encoder, frequency, period, pulse width, and duty cycle or can be used as three digital inputs.

To learn more about counters and especially Dewesoft SuperCounter technology please visit the Digital counter online training course.

Navigational Interfaces

DewesoftX can record and visualize navigational data such as positioning, orientation, acceleration, velocity, and other data from GNSS sensors and Inertial navigational systems. Several devices are supported:

• Dewesoft GNSS receivers

• Dewesoft inertial navigation systems

• Dewesoft inertial measurement units

• Dewesoft gyro sensors

• Oxford OxTS RT-series inertial navigation systems

• Genesys ADMA inertial navigation systems

• All GPS and GNSS receivers with NMEA specification output

The navigational devices can also be used to provide GPS clock timing for data synchronization between different data acquisition devices.

Video Cameras

Dewesoft was one of the first data acquisition software to add support for synchronized video to your measurements. And it was completely free. That is still true. Today DewesoftX features an advanced video engine that adds various video capture capabilities to your measurements. 

DirectX-compatible cameras support offers an affordable, low-cost video that can be added to your measurements. These cameras are software synchronized down to 100ms.

For truly synchronized video, we offer very robust and high-quality DS-CAM video cameras. These cameras offer high frame rates of up to 1100 FPS @ VGA (640x480) and 540 FPS @ Full-HD (1920x1080) resolution. Cameras offer an IP67 degree of environmental protection.

For ultra-high-speed video, we are supporting Photron high-speed cameras and for thermal infrared imaging, we have added support for the OPTRIS infrared cameras.

For more information about video acquisition please visit the Video Acquisition PRO training online course.

Lord-Microstrain Wireless Sensors

The LORD-Microstrain module adds support for LORD Microstrain® MIP and LXRS protocols. This enables wireless acquisition from most LORD sensing systems:

• Wireless sensors (vibration, strain, voltage, temperature, torque, pressire, shock, ...)

• Inertial sensing

• Displacement

Both wireless gateways are supported - WSDA® -2000 and WSDA®-200-USB.

Timing Devices

DewesoftX provides the interfaces to acquire the data with an external exact clock source. This is required when synchronizing several devices, or when an absolute timestamp is needed. Five timing sources are supported by Dewesoft: 

• IRIG timecode

• GPS timecode

• NTP synchronization

• PPS synchronization

• PTPv2 synchronization

Fast or Slow Data Storing

DewesoftX storing engine has four different storage options that relate to the basic sampling rate. Any of the four options can be used to store data:

• Always fast: data will always be stored at full sampling speed, as defined by the dynamic acquisition rate.

• Always slow: data will be always stored at a reduced sampling speed as defined by the static/reduced rate.

• Fast on the trigger: data will be stored at full sampling speed defined by the dynamic acquisition rate once the trigger condition occurs.

• Fast on trigger slow otherwise: data will be stored at full sampling speed defined by the dynamic acquisition rate at trigger points, and with the reduced rate when there is no trigger.

Distributed Acquisition With Dewesoft NET Option

With the Dewesoft NET option, users can easily control and store data to or from a remote location, as long as your measurement units are connected and visible on a standard TCP/IP network.

Dewesoft NET option serves as a hub for distributed data acquisition. Several measurement systems can be combined and synchronized together. DAQ systems can be located together or scattered across an entire continent.  Their data can be stored remotely in a single, centralized computer. IRIG or GPS time will take care that data will stay in perfect synchronization.

Database Storage

The Dewesoft Historian package provides time-series database storage for long-term and permanent monitoring applications. The database can be either located locally, on the remote server, or in the cloud. The solution is based on the InfluxDB time-series database open source project.  

Historian provides several useful features for your historic data:

• Raw and reduced data: while raw data is always stored in the measurement unit for an in-depth analysis, the Historian takes the role of long-term reduced data storage in the cloud database.

• Data safety and retransmit: if the connection between the measurement hardware and the database is lost, the data is safely stored locally on the measurement unit and then retransmitted to the database when the connection is available.

• Trending and analysis: Historical data can always be recalled and loaded from the Historian database and used for trend analysis as well as for in-depth analysis and root cause identification.

Visual Display Widgets

Dewesoft X offers an extensive library of pre-built visual displays, fully customizable with real-time visual feedback. Displays are touch-friendly with smart multi-touch gestures for use with multi-touch enabled DAQ instruments.

• Recorders: horizontal, vertical, and XY recorder

• Oscilloscope: scope, scope 3D, vectorscope

• FFT: FFT, 3D FFT, Harmonic FFT, and Octave

• Meters: digital, analog, horizontal/vertical bar meters

• Graphs: 2D, 3D graph, Octave, Orbit, Campbell plot

• Video: standard video display and thermal video display with temperature indicators

• GPS: positioning display with Open Street Map support

• Control: button, switch, knob, slider, user input

• Combustion analysis: P-V diagram and combustion scope

• Rotor balancer: for field balancing

• Automotive: 3D polygon for displaying moving objects

• Aerospace: altitude or artificial horizon indicator

• DSA/NVH: Modal circle

• Other: 2D/3D table, image, text, line, overload indicator, indicator lamp, note

Lightspeed Real-time Visuals

We use the latest CPU and GPU technologies to optimize graphics and make them run smoothly even on basic PCs.

Hardware-accelerated graphics help offload CPU usage and leave CPU power for mathematical computations rather than for graphics. This results in optimal performance for even the most demanding applications.

Interactive GPS Map and 3D Model Widgets

The map visual display offers a built-in interactive GPS mapping via Open Street Map. Several layers of map tiles are available.

• Out of the box Satellite and OpenStreetMap layers hosted on Dewesoft’s tile server

• Support for custom tile/wms layers as well as georeferenced images

• No manual alignment is required!

• 2D, 3D, and Terrain display modes with standard, 1st or 3d person camera options

• Online or offline

• Images can be pre-downloaded for offline usage

• Support of multiple layers with individually configurable opacity levels

• Channel-based trace coloring with multiple color schemes

• Ability to display multiple GPS signals on one widget

• 3D model widget for yaw, pitch, and roll monitoring

Signal processing modules

Next to the standard math library, DewesoftX also offers full dedicated signal processing modules. These can be used for analyzing vibrations, structural dynamics, acoustics, and other properties of physical phenomena used in the development, quality control, validation, and monitoring stages of the product design cycle.

Application modules include pre-defined screens, mathematics, reporting, and calculations according to international standards and other testing methods.

Some of the available processing modules are:

• FFT analysis

• Order tracking analysis

• Torsional and rotational vibrations

• Orbit analysis

• Human, arm, and whole-body vibrations

• Modal testing and modal analysis

• Power and power quality analysis

• Class 1 sound level meter

• Sound power

• Sound intensity

• Sound quality

• Brake testing

• Internal combustion engine analyzer

FFT analysis (Fast Fourier transform)

FFT analyzer module provides all functions for spectral analysis with advanced averaging, selectable resolution (up to 64000 lines), or direct specification of the bandwidth (0.01 Hz). Multiple channels can be displayed in the same FFT visual display for easier comparison. FFT features:

• Multiple cursors and markers: provide easy access to marked frequency values. Free, RMS, Max, Sideband, Harmonic, and Damping markers are available. 

• Bearing cursor: used to identify the bearing frequencies

• Envelope: envelope detection is a procedure for the early detection of faults on ball bearings

• Auto and cross-correlation

• Cepstrum

• Short time FFT

Torsional and rotational vibrations

The torsional and rotational vibrations module offers a straightforward analysis of torsional vibration for rotating shafts, gearboxes, and similar rotating machinery.

High-precision digital counter inputs on our DAQ systems with the patented technology called Supercounter®, based on a 102.4 MHz time base, allow for exact measurement and calculation of rotational and torsional vibration angles and velocities at high RPM speeds from two encoders mounted on each side of the shafts. The difference between the rotations of each side is the torsion twist of the measured shaft.

Constant angle offset, uncentered mounting, and sensor errors can be compensated. Gearbox ratios are supported and additional filters can be applied. Several torsional vibration modules can be combined to analyze torsional vibration on complicated transmissions.

Modal testing and analysis

Modal testing and analysis module can measure transfer functions of mechanical structures with impact hammer or shaker excitation. The software allows us to draw or import the structure geometry for quick visualization of measurement points.

The chosen natural frequencies can be observed as an animation of the structures. Measured data can be exported to UNV files and easily imported for further analysis in other software packages.

The same module can also be used to define transfer functions of electrical circuits like amplifiers or filters.

Main features

• Frequency response function (FRF)

• Coherence

• Excitation and response spectra, windowing

• Double hit detection, reject hits, averaging of hits

• SISO, MISO, SIMO, Response group alignment

• Mode indicator function (MIF)

• Circle-fit method for extracting modal

• Geometry editor

• Function generator for up to 16 channels

• FRF from stored timed data

• Triggered, free-run measure mode

• Shock response spectrum (SRS)

• A high channel count is possible for large structures

• Shock, drop, and bump test

• UNV file export for modal packages (ME-Scope, ...)​​​​​​​

Sound power measurement

The sound power module supports measurements according to the ISO 3741, ISO 3744, and ISO 3745 standards. The microphone positions are calculated by the software, depending on the size of the sound source and configuration (hemisphere, parallelepiped, ...).

If there are fewer microphones available than requested by the standard, you can build groups and change the position during the measurement. The user is guided through the measurement step by step. There is also a repeatability check and the visualization by third-octave band analysis for the report.

Sound Quality Measurement and Analysis

A sound quality measurement is an indispensable tool for successful sound engineering. It addresses the need to empirically evaluate how the human ear perceives sound produced by different kinds of machines. The tool will help you determine how the sound is perceived, tune the sound of your machine and make it appealing to the user, and maximize your market potential.

Highlights:

• Loudness calculation: Calculation according to iso 532-1 and iso 532-2: Acoustics - methods for calculating loudness - Zwicker method and Moore-Glassberg method

• Normal equal-loudness-level contours: Calculation according to and based on iso 226 standard

• Sharpness calculation: Sharpness is calculated from specific loudness, which is determined according to iso 532-1 and iso 532-2 standards

• Articulation index, extended: Evaluation of speech perception while other sounds are present

• Speech intelligibility: A metric for evaluation of speech intelligibility

• Noise rating (NR): Used in Europe for rating indoor noise sources

• Noise criterion (NC): Used in the USA for rating indoor noise sources

• Monaural and binaural analysis: Select the desired measurement method before measuring or measure both at the same time

• Time-varying and stationary signals support: No limits when it comes to different use cases

Learn more at:

• Sound quality solution page

• Sound quality online manual

Vehicle testing and analysis

DewesoftX offers several application modules and features for complete vehicle testing and analysis. These include a wide range of NVH testing features. Next to standard road load data recording, the following analysis modules are offered:

• Positioning measurement: full GNSS, IMU, and INS support for the position and orientation-based test and measurement applications including live mapping and virtual 3D polygon.

• ADAS: advanced driver assistance validation systems.

• Durability Testing and Road Load: performance and durability testing on the proving grounds, real roads or test rigs, and simulators.

• Brake Test: break test measurement, validation, and analysis according to international standards.

• Brake Noise Testing: determine the source of brake noise and squeal.

• Combustion Engine Analysis: measure and analyze parameters of internal combustion engines.

• E-Mobility: electric and hybrid car testing, including batteries, inverters, and electric motors.

• Pass-by Noise: measure noise emission on all sorts of vehicles according to international standards.

• Vehicle Dynamics: vehicle maneuver testing.

Reporting Tools

DewesoftX software includes extensive PDF data reporting and printing capabilities. When data is analyzed you can generate PDF reports of your visual displays with a single click. Several options are available for creating the report: 

• Print format and size - select from several standard paper formats and sizes

• Report orientation - report orientation either in portrait or landscape

• Single or Multipage report - create a single or multi-page report

• Header - print and define page header for printing

• Channel setup - can also be included in the report and printed for documentation purposes

Each report display can save a custom zoom region and cursor position, therefore allowing you to make context notes based on specific points in the signal. Along with a customizable header, footer, and font size, multiple pages can be stringed together into a full report that has a print preview available at the left edge of the screen, while the built-in page designer allows you to reorder pages or add new ones using the right-click.

Real-time Excel export

In contrast to the standard Excel data export function, the Excel Writer add-on allows writing numeric and textual Dewesoft X data during the acquisition in real-time to Microsoft Excel. You can select a trigger channel and define which channels should be written in Excel.

Whenever the trigger fires, the data is written to Excel and can immediately be shown: e.g. display in a chart or do real-time calculations (i.e. check values, use conditional formatting, etc.). The plugin requires Excel 2007 or higher.

SMS and E-mail notifications

Whenever the data acquisition system is located at a remote location, you can use the Sendmail add-on to send various notifications and alerts about the system status via e-mail or SMS (using the 3rd party E-mail to SMS service).

The temperature on the sensor 1 is too high!

You can set up standard Dewesoft X alarms and when the alarm is triggered the notification will be sent to a specified E-mail address (to one or multiple recipients) and forwarded SMS (if using any E-mail to SMS service).

Multiple alarm constraints can be specified. Combinations are almost endless.

Forget About Programming ...

Our core value is to strive for simplicity, usability, and ease of use. Everything in DewesoftX is visual with a simple drag and drop user interface. All changes are visible in real-time. There is no programming required to acquire, visualize, analyze, and store the data from our DAQ systems.

Working with our hardware DAQ devices is easier than riding a bike. Everything is tightly integrated and works seamlessly out of the box. Plug and play hardware, sensor autodetection, automatic channel setup are just a few of many features that make DewesoftX the most popular data acquisition software on the market.

... Unless You Need To!

Don't be fooled by the simplicity of DewesoftX software. The software will never limit your creativity and the freedom for advanced and custom analysis. 

Advanced mathematics built into the software will cover 99% of all of your measurement and analysis needs. Don't waste your time on something that has already been solved thousand times. For the other 1%, DewesoftX offers several ways to extend and automate the software with your own functionality:

• C++ Script - programming interface available within Dewesoft that allows writing scripts on top of Dewesoft channels. It can be used to transform long formulas with many inputs into compact modules that are easily scalable. 

• Plugins - open architecture of DewesoftX allows for easy extension of functionality by writing your own plugins. Write custom mathematics, visual controls, data export, and just about anything else you want.

• Sequencer - DewesoftX includes a powerful sequencer with programming support to automate and extend software and your tests.

• DCOM - write your own application software and use DCOM to call DewesoftX API and use Dewesoft DAQ devices to do the data acquisition for you.

Learn more on how to extend and automate the DewesoftX data acquisition software using available developer tools.