Instrument Connectivity on the Uncountable Platform
Manual entry is the default in most labs, and it's slow, error-prone, and leaves records incomplete. Every reading copied by hand into a spreadsheet or LIMS is a chance for a typo, a missing timestamp, or a result that never gets tied back to the sample that produced it.
Uncountable connects directly to your instruments instead, so results and their metadata flow in automatically. Balances, spectrophotometers, chromatography systems, battery cyclers, and 400+ other instruments connect through a direct API, a local agent over serial or USB, or a file-based watched folder. However an instrument connects, its output lands as one structured record, results, metadata, and sample ID together, with no re-entry required.
System administrators configure exactly what gets captured per instrument, from basic unidirectional readings to advanced captures with full metadata, up to bidirectional connections that send protocols to instruments like chromatography systems. At the high end, integrated orchestration lets high-throughput runs feed the ML models that design and trigger the next tests. See how instrument connectivity works on your own data, book a demo.
FAQs
It's how lab instruments, such as balances, spectrophotometers, chromatography systems, and battery cyclers, connect directly to the Uncountable platform so their results and metadata are captured automatically instead of typed in by hand.
There are three ways: a direct API (REST or SOAP), a local agent that reads serial or USB output, or a file-based connection that watches a folder for exports. Connections can run directly or through a proxy behind a DMZ, and each result comes in tied to results, metadata, and a sample ID as one structured record.
Unidirectional connections only read data out of an instrument, whether that's a basic reading with no metadata (like a scale) or an advanced capture with metadata and sample info (like a spectrophotometer). Bidirectional connections go further and send protocols to instruments, such as chromatography systems, not just read their results.
Yes. System administrators pick exactly what to extract from each instrument's standard export, choose which metadata gets mapped, tie every result to its sample ID, and set capture to run in real time or on a schedule.
Uncountable is integrated with 400+ instruments, including Agilent, Mettler Toledo, Shimadzu, Thermo Fisher, TA Instruments, Malvern, Instron, and ZwickRoell, with new instruments added every week.
