Learning Claris FileMaker

Easily integrate (not only) temperature sensors with FileMaker by HOnza Koudelka

FileMaker Beginner Intermediate Hardware Phidgets Sensor IoT

If you have a custom software system to run your business, then you probably want to integrate it with everything that’s important to your business.

One such example is monitoring conditions in your server room.

No one wants to come to the office on Monday only to find out that their servers got burned due to air-condition failure.

There’s no doubt that FileMaker is a leading software platform for custom business apps because it’s so easy to build a custom app with it.

But what is the easiest way to let it sense the physical world today?

I have tried to find it in the world of IoT, finally falling back to well-proven Phidgets.

Read the whole story below, or feel free to take a shortcut and quickly scroll down to the Phidgets approach.

24U Phidgets Plug-In allows FileMaker Pro to interact with various Phidgets boards to let your solution control physical devices and physical devices to control your solution.

• Read and write RFID tags to track goods, assets and people
• Capture sensor data to collect environmental data such as temperature or force
• Control servo motors to automate moving parts of robots and machines
• Read digital and analog inputs to control your solution by physical controls
• Set digital outputs to switch lights and other electrical devices
• New Display text on an LCD display to create custom user interface such as cashbox
• New Set analog outputs to control electronic equipment