Mjukvara för diagnostik av solfångare

Abstract

The company Parans Solar Lighting develops systems that lead sunlight through glass fiber cables to specially constructed lamp armatures. Due to the fact that many customers and retailers lack the necessary technical skills, difficulties arise when the need to collect a log file from the sun catcher arises. This is because one needs to use a terminal emulator (PuTTY) to communicate to the sun catcher, which requires above basic computer skills. This leads to waste of resources in terms of time for the company, because they need to guide their retailers by phone and e-mail, step by step. Therefore the company is looking to simplify the process of diagnostics by simplifying the gathering of log files from the sun catchers. This gave rise to the idea of a software application with an easy to use interface where the user easily can gather a log file from the sun catcher with a few mouse clicks. The result was a software application that is portable over Windows and OSX.