Setup
This quick guide intends to give an overview of the main components required for a project. This presumes a blank project has been created, which has to be done by an organisation owner.
Blueprints
Everything starts with a new blueprint. The processing and display options of a sensor are based off of it. This means that when a project has multiple sensors of the same type the consistent parts of setup are not repeated for each one.
The key components are:
- Formulas - calculates raw inputs to an engineering unit
- Fields - metadata associated with the sensor
- Charts - how the data is presented on the chart page
- XY Charts - for charts without a timeseries axis
- Dashboards - how the sensor will be presented on the dashboard page
Sensors
After the creation of a blueprint the individual sensors can then be setup. The unique data for each needs to be added like location, calibrations and alarms. Mappings will need to be added also once a data source is set up.
Data Sources
A data source is connected via FTP to parse the content of a text file. Once configured it will generate mappings based on the labels in the file header. There are several settings that need to be set to process the file correctly.
Data that has already been processed will not be collected again, though the last reading datetime and last file datetime can be manually set to a previous datetime to force the collection.
The data source log can be used to see what data has been collected and whether there has been any issues.
Sensor mappings
Once mappings are available from the setup data parser, these need to be paired with the input of each sensor as required. The outputs of sensors can also be used as mappings to an input.
