Stack Electronics Overview
What is interstacks?
Interstacks is a system of modular electronic blocks that works with the MyStacks cloud platform, on-prem servers, or third-party cloud servers to rapidly deploy industrial IoT and remote monitoring solutions.
- Snap blocks together into a ‘stack’ to acquire data from sensors and machines.
- Send data feeds to the cloud over ethernet, WiFi, or cell network.
- Store, visualize, and analyze data in your web browser using a customizable MyStacks cloud dashboard, or send data to your own servers using standard REST APIs, Modbus RTU, or Modbus TCP.
- Set up custom triggers to send email or text alerts under certain conditions.
Stack electronics overview
‘Blocks’ capture data from sensors and machines.
They are 2”x 2” square, modular, and snap together with mating serial data busses on the top and bottom. Each block performs a unique function.
‘Stacks’ are assemblies of blocks.
Every stack begins with a Base, and any blocks your project needs are added above in any order. A typical stack has a Base, I/O blocks to retrieve data from machines or sensors, and a network communication block to send data to the MyStacks cloud.
Base modules provide power, execute software, and control communication between blocks.
Each Base includes a 5V DC coaxial power connector, a 1 GHz processor with 512MB Ram, and 16GB of flash memory running a Python programming language virtual machine. It does not use Linux, or any other conventional OS.
Our process
Projects are typically assigned a support engineer to discuss your needs, pre-program your stacks for your specific application, and set up your initial MyStacks dashboards. If desired, the Stackbuilder authoring tool can be used to create stack application software using the Python programming language and send it to the Base module via a USB cable. Your support engineer can also update the software remotely when needed, providing support on an ongoing basis.