Systems, methods and computer program products, implementing techniques
for automatic data acquisition and the real-time display of automatically
acquired data. A system implementing the techniques includes one or more
automatic data acquisition devices that emit data; and a data integration
system that receives data from the automatic data acquisition devices and
processes the data. The data integration system includes a display system
for displaying the data to a user. The display system is operable to
generate a graphical display and to update the graphical display
automatically and only when new data from the automatic data acquisition
devices is available. The display system is operable to update only
affected parts of the graphical display but not necessarily the entire
display.