This, dear reader, is the iDVM Digital Multimeter — the world’s first actual iDevice-enabled voltmeter, from Redfish Instruments. Designed with auto technicians, electricians and engineers in mind, the iDVM uses an ad hoc wireless network to connect with any iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch, allowing users to record voltage, resistance and current directly from their palms. Once you’ve purchased the multimeter and downloaded the accompanying iDVM app, you may gather electrical measurements from as much as 30 yards faraway from your target, log data over extended periods of time and export your findings in spreadsheet or graph displays. The rechargeable battery-powered device could also read your measurements back to you, which should make you’re feeling slightly less lonely while digging around your car’s engine at 3 am. We’re still unsure why anyone would need to juggle their iPhone while chasing down a shorted wire, but when you do, the iDVM starts shipping on June 1st, for $220 — that may buy you about 40 easier multimeters from Harbor Freight. Full PR after the break.
SANTA CRUZ, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Redfish Instruments, Inc., a provider of iPhone- and iPad-enabled electronic test and measurement equipment, announced today the introduction of the iDVM™ Digital Multimeter. The iDVM multimeter wirelessly connects to an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch via an ad hoc wireless network allowing users to accumulate, visualize, and share electrical measurement data on their Apple devices. The iDVM app might be downloaded free from the Apple App Store.
In accordance with Patrick O’Hara, Redfish Instruments’ president and CEO, “The original pairing of the iPhone or iPad with a digital multimeter provides a user experience it truly is truly revolutionary. Not because the advent of the LCD has the multimeter been so substantially enhanced.” In regards to the market opportunity, Mr. O’Hara commented, “The iPhone and iPad provide a known user interface that enables customers to engage with electronic test and measurement tools that was impossible earlier than this post-pc era. We believe that our new iDVM voltmeter is the primary of many new uses for this tremendous interface; we’re excited to be an early pioneer.”
Traditionally, multimeters haven’t provided a simple approach to exporting or saving data. The iDVM permits a user to log data over a longer time frame using the iPhone or the iPad because the storage device. As an example, service engineers can use the iDVM to gather data and store it in a report for submission to their clients, or keep the information at the voltmeter for his or her own records. Using the GeoTag feature of the iPhone or iPad, service engineers may even identify their location as element of the info. The iDVM is inbuilt the us using all USA-made parts, and uses rechargeable batteries.
The iDVM was designed for quite a lot of users-from automotive technicians, to advanced embedded systems engineers, to electrical or building contractors, to field service workers.
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