5.1. Hardware#

TII Spectrometry Touch runs on a dedicated, integrated spectrometer appliance: a touchscreen, a spectrometer, and the networking hardware to reach it, combined into a single enclosure. There is no keyboard, mouse, or separate computer to set up - the device is ready to measure as soon as it is powered on.

Two form factors are available:

../_images/touch_hardware_compact.png — Fig. 5.1 The compact **TII Spectrometry Touch** spectrometer#

The compact unit (Figure 5.1) integrates a single spectrometer behind the entrance visible on top of the enclosure, with the touchscreen on the front.

../_images/touch_hardware_multi.jpg — Fig. 5.2 The **TII Spectrometry Touch** multi-spectrometer device#

The multi-spectrometer enclosure (Figure 5.2) houses up to three spectrometers behind a single, larger touchscreen. This can used to, for example, monitor several independent sources at once, or to combine two spectrometers with different spectral coverage into a single, extended spectral range.

Warning

The device requires a USB-C power supply capable of delivering more than 25 W for reliable operation.

One of TII Spectrometry Touch’s key features is full networking capability: the device can be reached over Wi-Fi from a phone, tablet, or laboratory computer, both to view live data and to control it remotely, without ever needing to touch the screen. Multiple devices can be combined if desired.

../_images/touch_network.png — Fig. 5.3 Remote Spectroscopy using **TII Spectrometry Touch**#

As shown in Figure 5.3, this includes a lightweight web dashboard for mobile devices and the same TCP/IP server interface used to control TII Spectrometry remotely, allowing a laboratory computer running the full application to acquire from the device as if it were directly connected. See Network & Sharing for details.