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Hi Bjorn,

Power USB may help on the power control side
http://www.pwrusb.com/featuresandbenefits.html

not clear to me if there is a login scheme - maybe it could be made to 
work with the Stratocore PPMS http://stratocore.com/ppms/ suggested 
previously.

George
p.s. I have not used Power USB myself.

On 3/15/2012 10:24 AM, Bjorn Tyrberg wrote:
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> We have an interest in tracking use of our microscopes for billing. To do this we
> have tracking software that links to our billing system. The problem is that if the
> user does not log in to the computer, they do not get tracked. Does anybody
> know of a solution where the power to the microscope can be controlled by log
> in to a computer, essentially making scopes unusable unless logged in to
> computer?
>
> Tx
> Bjorn Tyrberg
>
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