Hello, I hope I'm posting in the right location, let me know if I am not.
I'm looking to collect data from both a NI CompactDAQ and a LORD Microstrain wireless sensor system. I'm currently in the process of buying hardware, but I'm looking at the NI cDAQ-9189 chassis (with various input modules) and the LORD Microstrain WSDA-2000 gateway (with various wireless sensors). I know that I can connect both systems to a laptop and take data using labview (using microstrain's MSCL library). My issue is with synchronization of the data. I will have a GPS connected to the WSDA-2000, so all data coming from that should be synchronized with a GNSS time stamp. I'm wondering what my options are for synchronizing the NI cDAQ data with the data from the WSDA-2000 and what level of synchronization I can expect.
My first thought is perhaps there is some way to get a GPS time signal to the cDAQ, but it looks like that is only possible with a cRIO system, is that true? And if I do get a cRIO system, is it possible to just connect the WSDA-2000 directly to it instead of the computer, and what benefit is there to that?
My second thought is that maybe there is a way to send a trigger from one to the other, but I can't seem to find any documentation on how to do that.
Any suggestions are very welcome.