AlphaLab products are great at measuring various physical quantities (magnetism, electric field, etc.). Now they can do even more! Some of our products can be ordered with a hardware data recording option and software. These provide a complete data acquisition solution. Get data from measurement to data files on a PC with a single product.

Supported Products:

Software Description:

AlphaApp is an easy to use software application that provides data logging and data capture capabilities for AlphaLab Inc. meters that have USB capabilities. The easy to use interface gives users the ability to record, download, and stream data from meters to most computers. The data can be viewed on a computer or saved to a text file format easily read by any software with text reading capabilities (i.e., Excel, Matlab, C++, C, etc.).

Supported Operating Systems:

  • Windows 10
  • Windows 8.1

Features (for meters with data recording option):

  • Tethered Recording – AlphaApp can stream data at varied intervals while connected to a PC.
  • Stand Alone Recording – Data can be uploaded later using AlphaApp. Over 100,000 data points can be stored or re-written repeatedly to non-volatile memory on a meter.
  • Data Plotting – Multiple-axis data can be visualized using line plots.
  • Live Screen – AlphaApp can extend the screen information on the meter to a PC.

 Example of live screen and data plotting operating in tandem with the Vector/Magnitude Gauss Meter Model VGM.

An FTDI driver is required to connect over the virtual com port.  The driver is available for many different operating systems and can be downloaded from FTDI’s website.

FTDI Virtual COM Port Drivers

Release Notes:

Last UpdatedTitle
12-17-2020AlphaApp Release Note Regarding “Error Loading Buffer” Message

Last Software Edition:

Custom Software Solutions:

The following communication protocol can be used to program your own software using a virtual com port with an FTDI driver.

Program Update Log

ReleaseDateIssue/Notes:
1.0.010-15-2015First Release
1.0.110-20-2015Memory Optimization
1.0.212-9-2015Fixed AIC2 connectivity
Updated installer FTDI driver to v2.12.10
Icons updated, “Stream Period” changed to “Recording Interval”
1.0.31-18-2016Added support for MR3
Fixed an issue causing USB-DL1 units to be saved incorrectly to CSV files
Added a warning dialog that is displayed if USB connection is lost
1.0.43-10-2016Enabled BIM data set downloading
1.0.56-3-2016Improved Data Set download speed for AIC2
1.0.69-2-2016Added progress bar for loading data sets from hdd
Improved loading speed for large data sets
updated packaged FTDI driver to v2.12.18
1.0.711-9-2016Added absolute time option in preferences.
Improved stability for MR3 and AIC2 downloads
1.0.86-30-2017Comm port stability improvement for Windows 10.
Added error message when loading incorrect data files.
1.0.911-3-2020AIC2 scale not showing correctly.
added stability for large file size downloads.