Question

I am currently doing some research which involves analyzing data coming from different sensors. The way the data is provided is via a network interface. I want to take advantage of the already written procedures available in matlab/octave (error computing, plotting etc).

Which one is the best approach for doing such things:

• doing an application in another language and call octave/matlab functions with data received from network?
• doing an application in octave/matlab which handles incoming data from network interface?

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Any other solutions and experiences are highly appreciated.

Thank you,

Iulian

LATER EDIT:

I am more interested in using octave than matlab but currently I’m looking to see a working method.

Answer 1

I’ve not used it, but there’s a sockets package for Octave. If this works, writing the whole application in Octave seems easier to me than dealing with cross-language calling.