Name: Serial Port Splitter
Uploaded: 2022-08-25
Duration: 1 min 49 s
Description: Hello ALL , Today we would like to present you all our Hackathon idea Serial Port Splitter.

[Audio] Hello ALL , Today we would like to present you all our Hackathon idea Serial Port Splitter. 

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Jadhav, Ambadas Dn, Rakesh Naik, Ratan Kumar

[Audio] What is a serial port ?
a serial port is a serial communication interface through which information transfers in or out sequentially one bit at a time. It provides bidirectional communication interface that allows sending and receiving data . Serial ports are widely used in Configuration and management of networking equipment such as routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers etc. They are also used by different sensors for data acquisition. For example, GPS receivers uses this to transit GPS data. Now coming to the problem statement
Usually when we need to access the serial device connected to the serial port, we use serial communication program but what if you need to access the device from several programs at the same time ? Operating system doesn't allow simultaneous COM port connections . Once a port is opened by one application, it is locked and other applications trying to connect to the same port will fail.. 

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[Audio] To further explain the problem, let's consider a real-world example.
Assume we have 3 applications which requires the data from the GPS module running on a system having single serial port capable of handling GPS data. These all 3 applications will rely on serial port to send & receive GPS data.
Current scenario only one application can stream the data from serial port and other application must wait until the first application release the serial port.. 

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Hello ALL , Today we would like to present you all our Hackathon idea Serial Port Splitter

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a serial port is a serial communication interface through which information transfers in or out sequentially one bit at a time

It provides bidirectional communication interface that allows sending and receiving data

Serial ports are widely used in Configuration and management of networking equipment such as routers,  switches, firewalls, load balancers et cetera

They are also used by different sensors for data acquisition

For example, GPS receivers uses this to transit GPS data

Usually when we need to  access the serial device connected to the serial port, we use serial communication program but what if you need to access the device from several programs at the same time ?

Operating system doesn't allow simultaneous COM port connections

Once a port is opened by one application, it is locked and other applications trying to connect to the same port will fail.

 This Photo  by Unknown Author is licensed under  CC BY-SA

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To further explain the problem, let's consider a real-world example.

Assume we have 3 applications which requires the data from the GPS module running on a system having single serial port capable of handling GPS data

These all 3 applications will rely on serial port to send & receive GPS data.

Current scenario only one application can stream the data from serial port and other application must wait until the first application release the serial port.