VIPER is a service-based software platform that is meant to automate data retrieval, automatically process data to common data formats, support modern communication protocols, archive data per user definitions, and more. If power is lost or the computer crashes (i.e., if the computer is restarted for any reason), VIPER will automatically restart and continue polling without any user intervention.
The VIPER front end can be closed after being configured,making operations be virtually impervious to the action of operators. If you have more than a single ADR at a given location, and you would like the devices to be considered as single site/location, VIPER allows you to merge multiple BIN files into a single output.
The original source files are archived in an unaltered form should they ever be needed. An existing TOPS database can be imported into Viper so that devices that existed in TOPS don’t have to be created from scratch. To speed up the device creation process, new devices can be created using an existing device as a template; only the fields that are different need to be changed.