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Video Tutorial: Integrating Wellsite Equipment using WITS Protocol

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By Kevin Rutherford on Jul 20, 2017 2:00:00 PM


The Wellsite Information Transfer Specification (WITS) is a communications format used for the transfer of a wide variety of oil & gas wellsite data from one computer system to another.  This oil/gas industry standard is recognized by a number of companies internationally and is supported by many hardware devices and software applications used at well sites around the globe.

In this video blog, I show you how to get started using our TOP server software based communications driver for WITS Level 0 Active protocol to integrate data from your wellsite devices into AVEVA (formerly Wonderware) applications. You can install the software on your own computer and it will communicate with multiple devices via multiple serial ports and/or Ethernet convertors. 

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TOP Server V6.0 Features to Be Excited About for Oil and Gas

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By Kevin Rutherford on Jan 6, 2017 2:00:00 PM


I'm sure you've likely at least heard about the latest TOP Server V6.0 released recently.  Aside from the great server-level enhancements to the user interface and more, there are several nice upgrades that should prove especially useful to our users in the oil and gas industry working with TOP Server.

Keep reading to find out more specific details about several great features that should make your lives easier in TOP Server V6.0.

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