Tracking Library

• Standardized component technology for rapid assembly of applications
• Add real-time data support to any application
• Suitable for situational awareness, decision support, and distributed simulation applications
• Functions for data analysis, visualization, filtering, events, archiving, and playback
• Software transactional memory system for simplified multi-threaded development
• Built-in support for Insight3D visualization
• Combine with other AGI Components to create analysis-based decision support aids

The Tracking Library offers the following major capabilities:

Software transactional memory (STM)

In order to achieve maximum performance with today's multi-core hardware architectures, Tracking Library implements an STM system which greatly simplifies the process of multi-threaded application development, making it easy for a programmer to build fast, scalable applications without traditional and error-prone lock-based APIs.

Entities

Developers create their own entity types by implementing a variety of small standard interfaces. This provides a standard way to access data while still allowing the developer to create classes tailored to the specific input being used.

Filtering and events

Modern datasets can contain thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of unique points of interest. While computer hardware has scaled to meet increasing demand, the ability for a human being to ingest such large quantities of data has gone unchanged. Users have to comb through more data than ever to separate important findings from background noise. To automate this process, Tracking Library provides a mechanism to automatically filter entity data as it’s received and select only those entities that match the criteria defined.

Visualization

While a developer is free to use the solution of their choice when visualizing Tracking Library data, a specialized assembly is provided for making it easy to work with AGI Components' own Insight3D Visualization Library. This prevents each developer from having to implement the same functionality over and over again; allowing them to concentrate on the specialized details of their application.

Archiving

While the primary benefit of Tracking Library is the ability to perform analysis and visualization as data is received, it also contains a set of classes for archiving that data for additional analysis, playback and review. Built-in support for Microsoft SQL Server is provided as well as the ability to easily add other archive targets, such as flat files or Oracle databases. This seamlessly integrates archived data with the rest of STK Components capabilities.