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4 Product Overview
The Control Techniques eSMART HMI products combine state-of-the-art features and top
performance with an outstanding design.They have been designed to offer an outstanding price/
performance ratio for challenging applications. They are the ideal choice for HMI applications
including factory and building automation.
The eSMART HMI products have been designed to run the MChMobile software.
• Compatible with MChMobile Studio.
• Full vector graphic support. Native support of SVG graphic objects, transparency and alpha
blending.
• Screen object dynamics: control visibility and transparency, move, resize, rotate any object on
screen. Change properties of basic and complex objects.
• Multilanguage applications with TrueType fonts. Easily create, install and maintain applications
in multiple languages to meet global requirements.
• Data display in numerical, text, bar graph, analog gauges and graphic image formats.
• Rich set of state-of-the-art HMI features: data acquisition and logging, trend presentation, alarm
handling, scheduler and timed actions (daily and weekly schedulers, exception dates), recipes,
security and user management, email and RSS feeds.
• Wide selection of communication drivers available with multiple-driver communication capability.
Modbus RTU, Modbus RTU Server, Modbus TCP, Modbus TCP Server, CT Modbus TCP, OPC
UA Client.
• Remote monitoring and control with Client-Server functionality.
• On-line and Off-line simulation with MChMobile Studio.
• Powerful scripting language for automating HMI applications. Efficient script debugger improves
productivity in application development.
• Rich gallery of vector symbols and objects.
5 Getting started
eSMART HMI products must be programmed with the software MChMobile Studio (starting from
v2.00). MChMobile Studio is a software tool that must be properly installed on a computer running
Microsoft Windows.
There are two options to transfer a MChMobile application project to a HMI device:
Table 5-1
Ethernet Connect the HMI device to the computer with an Ethernet network connection.
From MChMobile Studio choose the command Run/Download to target. You may
have to ensure that the proper firewall policy has been configured in the computer
to allow MChMobile Studio to access the network.
USB Create an Update Package using MChMobile Studio and copy it to a USB Flash
drive.