All our control panels are connected to a high speed RS-485 Serial
buss either daisy chained together or Stared out from some sort of centralized
punch block.
With Navigator all the standard illuminated push button and rotary XY
hardware remote control panels are completely programmable. That is, all
the push buttons on all the control panels can be programmed for any
function such as being inputs, or outputs, controlling different levels,
multilevel salvos, OZ DSP functions, etc. It's all programmable. Now
remote control panels can be as powerful, or as limited, as desired by
the systems administrator for the operators. And all this can be
reprogrammed at the Navigator PC with the click of a mouse.