Stardraw Control is exactly that - a software-based application designed expressly to control systems that contain diverse products. It generates standalone, customized control programs that can manage and monitor any type of addressable equipment from any manufacturer using any protocol over any communications infrastructure. This approach frees systems integrators from closed or proprietary architectures and applications, offering instead the ability to create a single application that can control many different products with as much or as little complexity as the end user needs.
Global Caché president, Walt Keller, said he was "delighted" that support for the GC-100 range has been incorporated into Stardraw Control. "Stardraw Control's ability to automatically generate customer specific applications on-the-fly is truly a breakthrough technology, and is a very complementary product to ours. We believe the combination of our respective products will ensure that integrators and installers will be able to make the shift to open standards very easily with an affordable and yet powerful leading-edge solution that is customized for each individual project."
Like other Stardraw applications, Stardraw Control is fast, powerful, flexible and easy to use; with a drag-drop interface and intuitive design environment, installers are able to configure systems and control them without having to write a single line of code. Generated control programs are portable and can run on any Windows-enabled device, from PC to PDA, or Mac, Linux and more. Stardraw Control can communicate with and control any device using any protocol including TCP/IP, RS232, DMX, IR, EtherSound etc.
(Lee Baldock)
