ScaleCOM is a Windows application that reads from virtually any scale indicator and uses DDE to make the scale data available to any DDE compliant application.

With USI (Universal Scale Interface) ScaleCom offers an automatic method of communication. No more worrying about baud rates, bits or character strings. It has an automatic setup wizard for non-technical users that do not understand COM interface parameters. Simply connect your scale indicator to a COM port, tell the wizard which COM port to scan, and fill in a few simple pieces of information. It figures it out from there. It will automatically scan all COM settings and interpret the data stream to determine weight and motion characters. After it has configured itself to your scale indicator, you are ready to go. It's that simple!

How does it work?
ScaleCOM uses the USI (Universal Scale Interface) command set that makes reading scale indicators the same regardless of brand or protocols. It dynamically connects virtually any scale indicator via any COM port in Windows to any application that is DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange) compliant. It uses Microsoft's DDE standard for inter-application interfacing. Any application or development tool (e.g. Access or Visual Basic) that is DDE compliant can communicate directly with a scale with this application.

What can I do with it?
ScaleCOM allows an end user, dealer or developer the freedom to develop a scale database tracking system themselves without concerns about the brand (or brands) of weighing devices. This program allows your application to read data from the scale as well as send data to the scale for control purposes. This capability allows applications to use this program to even control unattended or fully automated systems.