Climaps − Manuel Utilisateur
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1. FVPFLI Gel vj sus vj FVPFL Gel v so31 v E FVPFL Gel v 3006 v Download Downloading data The general usage is very similar to that of the plotting data part 1 Select the interval between which you would like to download data 2 Select the options you want to use 3 Select the stations you would like to get data from 4 Click on the Download button Your browser then starts downloading a zip file with the files your have requested You get one text file per selected station Hint Similarly to data plotting you can select all instead of a particular station to get the data from all stations in the selected filter The various options are as follows e Format You can choose between CSV tabular format with values separated by commas and the Matlab format e Raw data Sensors send data in a proprietary format that must be converted to a standard format such as C for temperature This option lets you retrieve the proprietary raw data instead of the converted data in order to let you convert them by yourself Sensorscope Climaps Manuel Utilisateur Page 17 e Include health status This option includes in the text files the health status of the station such as its battery level in addition to the sensors data e UTC plain dates With the default settings dates are provided in epoch time also known as Unix time which is the number of elapsed seconds si2. Sensorscope Sarl PSE D CH 1015 Lausanne Senso SCO pe 41 216 917 001 contact sensorscope ch www sensorscope ch A RT Climaps User Manual Updated on April 19 2012 Sensorscope Climaps Manuel Utilisateur Page 2 Table of Contents My eiidere tres To OPERE TIT Tm 3 2 setting Up Your SensorscoDe SEalUOli eson isse vsuh a p e esos a NUUS Peu poins x Cu Ea S DUDEN VN e eSI e US ANEO E Vae ene beu OPE MEE 4 2 1 Creating a Climaps ACCOUNT oq esooru et oabE tein Io pei dae da Po REO arnad Kuss Moe nets s Up E RES aa aeaa sne Md Pot Red Maus 4 22 Activating your SAO i o basdesom oU S E rM se PASE OUI MS SPI DUIINR DR MEME MUN seas 4 3 Rights Mala Cnn ei atec Eoo 5 A OIE ON Panel rerne bocce eee ccc see cc uses ees oh cece anda E E EEE 6 MEME PICT St REERERT 6 4 2 Managing Access Authorizations ccccccceceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 7 o PE n E E E E E entree cee 8 25 We i e 8 NEMESIS LEN TU 9 S KGS CR RIS ENTE 9 524 The Achion Emm 10 Do TADE ara E 11 6 Ouick QVCO sisirin ninin nerin e EEEE EE EEA EIE EOE 13 Z RONO ERE O A EE E EEA E E A A R 14 8 Downloading Data irssi E EEEE EAE EN 16 VES eu EIU 18 21 Theucddress DOO amenir eram IM tU VIRI In I dece MPH EANA FUN DUM UR MURNIND 18 LIMES e K EIAS dance ntact eon nas dace na nested cae nas dae duns iee
3. been received more than 12 hours ago Moreover two icons may be shown in front of each station e A battery icon indicates that the battery level is low e An open lock icon indicates that the station is public and can thus be accessed by anyone Station 1151 md f0y04 12 17 05 EA EN This station is public and its battery level is low Icons on the world map represent the type of station A master station has some small radio waves to symbolize the GPRS transmission Furthermore the icon may be either green last data received less than 12 hours ago or grey last data received more than 12 hours ago e 4 7 ANS i Les Grands llots Station 3026 is a master station and its last data has been received less than 12 hours ago Station 3075 is a slave station and has not sent any data in the past 12 hours 5 2 The Action Menu The menu located on top of the map on the left lets you do a number of actions on filters and stations 5 2 1 Actions on Filters Link to this filter This action reloads the page in order to give you in the address bar of your browser the link to the selected filter This is useful if you wish for instance to send this link to a co worker to let him access a set of stations you have defined Import this filter This action is only available when the selected filter does not belong to you This is the case for instance when a co worker has sent you the link to one of his filters U
4. delete Alerts cost a given amount of credits The dialog box automatically computes up to how many credits the alarm will cost if it triggers In the case of our frost alarm the cost depends on the number of text messages actually sent Once the alerts correctly defined click on the Save button Sensorscope Climaps Manuel Utilisateur Page 20 9 2 3 Liste of Alarms The new alarm now appears in the list as shown in the example below Alarms B Address Book You have O credits left Minimum allowed 0 CONDITION RE ARM Alarme gel Station 1250 Decagon Temperature 0 1 Armed CS G Es LJ List of alarms This list lets you see the state of your alarms You can edit them by selecting an alarm and clicking on the Edit button You can also delete an alarm you no longer want Thanks to the Enable Disable button you can as well temporarily disable an alarm instead of deleting it A disabled alarm never triggers 9 3 Credits Each alert costs you some credits e E Mail O credit e Text message 1 credit per message e Phone call 2 credits per call Thus with our frost alarm an e mail free two text messages 2 credits and a phone call 2 credits will cost you 4 credits if all alerts are sent You can see how many credits you have left above the list of alarms If you want to buy credits please contact us Sensorscope Climaps Manuel Utilisateur Page 21 10 Radio Link Qu
5. people to access its data you have to give them the rights to do that This is explained in the section 3 Rights Management Sensorscope Climaps Manuel Utilisateur Page 5 3 Rights Management There are three levels of rights that a user may have on a Sensorscope station e None The user cannot access the station e See The user can access the station and view its data but cannot change its properties like its geographical location e Modify The user can do anything with the station including giving to other users some rights on that station The Modify right implies the See right Once your Sensorscope station activated you have the Modify right on it Nobody else can access it If you want other users to access your stations there are two possibilities 1 Make the station public If you make your station public any Climaps visitor has the See right on it When you log in to Climaps for the first time the stations you can see on the map are those that have been made public by their owner The procedure to make a station public is explained in section 5 World Map 2 Give rights If you do not want your station to be public you can individually assign the See and Modify rights to any user Excepting you only these users will be able to access your station The procedure to manage authorizations is explained in section 4 2 Managing Access Authorizations Q Sensorscope Climaps Manuel Utilisate
6. the list of all the stations you have the See right on If you select one of these stations it is added to the filter if it was not already in or removed if it was already in e The right part shows the list of stations in the filter If you click on one of these stations it is removed from the filter e Sensorscope Climaps Manuel Utilisateur Page 7 Once satisfied with the filter click on the Save button to actually create the filter It is now displayed in the list of your filters You are then able to edit or even delete it if you do not need it anymore 4 2 Managing Access Authorizations This page lets you manage the access to your stations as explained in section 3 Rights Management In additional to the filter selector the page is split into two parts e The left part shows the list of stations in the selected filter on which you have the Modify right e The right part shows the users that can access the stations selected in the left part Select Unselect All 4 Selected stations 1 2 3 4 5 MEE Login Rights x Station 2 EU Arnaud Jutzeler epfl ch View Change Y Station 4 MY Station 5 Station 6 J Station 10 Station 11 Station 12 Station 13 J Station 14 Station 19 Station 29 J Station 30 _ Station 32 Station 33 J Station 34 Station 35 Save J Station 36 Managing access Station 38 m authorizations in the dude a Authorizations tab To give some rights to a user you must kn
7. 37839 6 065934 Booted 21 11 11 16 04 Firmware 2 0 6 21 05 10 14 08 Radio Frequency 868 MHz 15 dBm Station 1103 18 04 12 16 24 Station 1104 18 04 12 16 17 Station 1105 18 04 12 16 22 Station 1106 18 04 12 16 18 Station 1108 18 04 12 16 11 Google Catina 11794 Station 1103 Sensors Health Network Humidity Rain avis 0 00 mm Solar Radiation avis 197 85 W m e Temperature SHT75 12 28 C Wind Direction avis 286 27 Wind Speed avis 2 10 m s The world map The general usage is as follows 1 In the upper part select a filter see section 4 1 Filters to define which stations are displayed Filters Public Stations and My Stations the stations on which you have the See right are predefined 2 The list on the left and the world map are updated with the corresponding stations Select a station by clicking on it either in the list or directly on the map 3 The list of sensors installed on that station and its health status appear in the list on the bottom left Click on one of the sensors 4 The plot on the right is updated with the data received during the past 5 days Climaps Manuel Utilisateur Page 10 Hint The plot is interactive Move your mouse over it to get an information window or select an area to zoom on it The list of stations on the left shows for each station the date of the latest data received If the text is greyed out the latest data has
8. Health 9 Advanced Details DECAGON HUMIDITY DECAGON TEMPERATURE DECAGON TEMPERATURE WET 3001 46 31 96 15 52 3002 40 1796 15 07 3003 37 54 14 58 3004 39 82 14 26 3005 34 42 15 27 3007 34 98 15 76 3008 31 13 96 15 10 3009 33 47 96 15 59 3010 37 11 96 13 80 3011 37 05 14 34 3012 342356 16 49 3013 39 8396 13 42 3014 32 5996 15 72 3015 31 1996 16 94 3016 37 26 14 46 3017 35 51 96 14 99 3018 30 47 15 85 3019 39 88 96 14 22 3020 32 556 16 42 3021 34 13 16 50 3022 31 41 96 15 54 3023 29 17 96 16 C 3024 35 28 15 92 3025 37 5096 14 80 3026 32 88 96 15 87 o fol o fal o el o a O Eel O d O 9 O o O 3l O I qa wG G G G GOG G O0 GOG O GO G G hd FVPFL Gel Last week s data from 69 stations I o certhen antow a ocer than a day Please note that 6 stations are inactive 3006 3061 3063 3066 3067 3075 Quick overview The various tabs are e Sensors Displays the latest value sent by each sensor e Health This list contains everything related to the general working operation of the stations such as the battery level or the GPRS values for master stations e Advanced Displays for each station the number of hops to go through for the data to arrive at the master station e Details Firmware data such as the version of the radio transmission frequency Q Sensorscope Climaps Manuel Utilisateur Page 14 7 Plotting Data You can access this part using the plo
9. alities If you have multiple stations communicating through radio you can plot the quality of the radio links between them a m Radio link qualities Accessing the radio link qualities The general usage is as follows 1 Select a filter in the bottom left part of the interface 2 Select a station and its neighbor You can also select all the stations in the filter 3 Select the time interval in the bottom right part of the interface 4 Click on the Plot button 1214 1223 mT ICE UE RETE ETE EN B WM 2 o x Apr 15 1214 ak Plot Link Qualities Station all Neighbor All Pastweek Radio link qualities You then get a plot showing the quality of the radio link from the neighbor to the station e g how well Station hears Neighbor If All is selected for the station you get a tab per station in the filter If All is selected for the neighbor you get the set of qualities one for each neighbor on the same plot The quality of the radio links varies between 0 and 16 16 being the best quality There is a grey area between O and 12 showing the area in which stations do not communicate with each other because the quality is too low
10. ata for all the stations in the filter rather than selecting them one by one Sensorscope Climaps Manuel Utilisateur Page 15 To limit the amount of data to display the resolution of the plot is decreased when the selected interval is too big The resolutions are as follows e Less than 7 days Maximum resolution you get all the measurements done by the sensors e Less than 30 days The resolution is 15 minutes The points displayed are means over 15 minutes e More than 30 days The resolution is one hour The points displayed are means over one hour Please note that the actual resolution used is precisely given on the bottom left of the plot Some limitations of Internet Explorer constrain the plot to use a smaller resolution for smaller intervals Inside the plot on the top right two icons let you e Download the plot as an image using the image format of your choice e Print the plot Q Sensorscope Climaps Manuel Utilisateur Page 16 8 Downloading Data This part can be accessed using the hard drive icon in the navigation bar Download data Accessing the data downloading part This part lets you retrieve text files containing the data sent by one or multiple stations in order to manipulate them using software such as Matlab From 12 04 12 zu Format CSV v _ Raw instead of converted values FEFFE M Include health values as well To 18 04 12 sere J UTC plain date instead of epoch time
11. e 19 P Ocoee ere nen rece earner m 20 10 Radio Link II tc ee eo A nee oe eRe oe ee ae ee ee ae eee ree 21 Q Sensorscope Climaps Manuel Utilisateur Page 3 1 Introduction Climaps is the website with which you can access the data sent by your Sensorscope station It integrates the latest WEB technologies to offer a clean and easy to use graphical interface No additional software is required You can access your data from anywhere in the world using any computer equipped with a simple Internet connection Station 1103 5 Station 1082 Name Gap 18 04 12 16 28 Coordinates 44 537839 6 065934 Booted 21 11 11 16 04 Firmware 2 0 6 21 05 10 14 08 Radio Frequency 868 MHz 15 dBm Station 1103 18 04 12 16 24 Station 1104 18 04 12 16 17 Station 1105 19 04 12 16 22 Station 1106 18 04 12 16 18 Station 1108 18 04 12 16 11 or qr L100 ken Google 50 mi Ctatinen 1194 Station 1103 Sensors Health Network Humidity Rain avis 0 00 mm Solar Radiation avis 197 85 W m Temperature SHT75 12 28 C Wind Direction avis 286 27 Wind Speed avis 2 10 m s General overview of Climaps Climaps has numerous features among which e Data Sharing Share your data in a few mouse clicks with any of your co worker in the office next door or at the other side of the Earth e Distant Access Access your data from anywhere in the world using a computer or a smartphone than
12. ile the alarm is triggered and once all alerts sent no new alert is sent for that alarm e The alarm is automatically re armed when the re arm value is measured In our example alerts are sent when the temperature goes below 0 C Once all alerts sent and while the temperature is below 1 C no more alerts are sent If the temperature goes above 1 C the alarm is re armed It will trigger again if the temperature goes again below O C and new alerts will then be sent 9 2 2 Alerts Once the trigger condition entered click on the Next button in order to define the alerts that will be sent if the alarm triggers Alerts rf triggered this alarm will cost up to 4 credits Send an e mail to Y John Doe Y One time Y Every 5 mn Send an SMS to Y John Doe Y Upto2times v Every 15 mn Make a voice callto John Doe v One time Y Every 5 mn T Defining the alerts associated to an alarm In the example above when the alarm triggers an e mail a text message and a phone call are sent to the contact John Doe If the alarm is re armed before 15mn have elapsed no more alerts are sent Otherwise a second text message is sent 15mn later Then no more alerts are sent while the alarm is triggered You can associate as many alerts as you want to an alarm To add new alerts click on the button located at the bottom of the dialog box To delete an alert click on the X button in front of the alert you want to
13. ks to the mobile version of Climaps e Easy to Set Up Once your Sensorscope station installed your data is ready to be accessed No need to install a data server your data is automatically sent to Climaps e Alarm System Thanks to Climaps you can create alarms based on the data sent by your station that you can receive through e mail text message or phone call e Automatic Backups Your data is automatically backed up by our services you don t have to worry about it Q Sensorscope Climaps Manuel Utilisateur Page 4 2 Setting Up Your Sensorscope Station 2 1 Creating a Climaps Account To access the data gathered by your Sensorscope station you first have to create a Climaps account If you already have one you can skip this section To create an account start your web browser and go to http climaps com In the header on top of the screen click on the sign up link Welcome guest please log in or sign up The header allows you to log in or to sign up to 1 Climaps You will then get a form to fill in The Login is the unique identifier of your account We recommend using something simple to remember linked to your actual name The user John Doe could for instance use j doe Please note that once chosen there is no way to modify your login Please be careful as well when filling in your e mail address It must be valid and you must be able to access it to fully validate your account This validation must be d
14. list This is useful if the list of station is really long i 3 T n e i P m T T ad r gt IH 4 Go wit N Cd 5 P A oM e A i N ata e oT DAS 7 D f Drag the station to the new position or right click on the map or directly enter the coordinates in the fields below Latitude Longitude H3 479822 5 410305 Dialog box for setting the location of a station The text box lets you type Save the name of a place to go there more quickly 5 3 Labels On the map a white label is associated to each station You can choose what to display in these labels by using the menu on the top right of the map The various options are e Identifier The unique identifier of the station This is the default display e Name Displays the name of the station This is the name you can define using the Rename the station action e Temperature Displays the last temperature measured by the station If the station does not have a temperature sensor or if the measurement is older than an hour N A is displayed e Battery Displays the last battery level sent by the station If the measurement is older than an hour N A is displayed GY Sensorscope Climaps Manuel Utilisateur Page 12 Labels showing the temperature Q Sensorscope Climaps Manuel Utilisateur Page 13 6 Quick Overview You can access the overview using the magnifier icon in the navigation bar gh Sensors
15. nce 01 01 1970 This format suits to most scientific software such as Gnuplot or Matlab Selecting this option lets you get dates in a text format that can be read by humans Sensorscope Climaps Manuel Utilisateur Page 18 9 Alarms Climaps lets you create alarms based on the values sent by the Sensorscope stations The general usage is as follows 1 You create an alarm based on a condition 2 You associate alerts to this alarm e mails text message or phone calls 3 When the condition is met alerts are sent The alarm system can be accessed using the whistle icon in the navigation bar Accessing the alarm system 9 1 The Address Book Address Book LANGLIAGE Chuck Billy English The address book Alarms are associated to a number of alerts that will be sent to contacts in your address book For instance if you want a text message to be sent when an alarm triggers you have to select to which contact in your address book the message will be sent The first step is thus to add at least one contact to your address book When you create a contact you must provide at least a name Other information is optional and is used to send alerts at the right place We recommend filling in all the contact fields to avoid situations where for instance a text message should be sent to a contact without a phone number In the example below a contact John Doe is created The selected language is English so the ale
16. one within an hour Once the form filled in click on the Submit button You should receive an e mail in the following minutes with a link to click on in order to validate your account If you don t receive this e mail please check that it hasn t been marked as spam by your e mail client Once the validation link clicked you will land on the log in page You can then fill in your login and your password to connect to Climaps If later on your choose to disconnect use the log in link in the header to connect again Hint Although Climaps is compatible with most of the web browser we strongly recommend using Google Chrome 2 2 Activating your Station Once installed and powered your Sensorscope station automatically sends its data to Climaps This data is not visible to anyone at first even to you To access your data you must activate your station in order to associate it to your Climaps account When you received your station you should have received as well a sheet of paper explaining the process to activate your station It contains an activation code which looks like XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX and the unique identifier of the station To activate your station go to http climaps com comp activatestation to fill in the fields and click on the Activate button Your station is then associated to your Climaps account and only you can access its data Please note that a station can only be activated once If you want other
17. ow his Climaps login Then 1 Select in the left part the stations on which you would like give some rights 2 Fill in the Climaps login in the field at the bottom of the right part 3 Click on the See button to give the See right or on the Modify button to give the Modify right To modify existing rights 1 Select in the left part the stations on which you would like to modify the rights 2 For each user select the new rights Selecting None removes all the rights on the selected stations from the given user 3 Click on the Save button Once the See or Modify right given to a user the stations automatically appear in his list of stations If later on you choose to remove these rights just select None for that user and save The station will disappear from his list of stations Please note that the Modify right allows a user to change the rights himself He could thus remove your own Modify right making you incapable of accessing your own stations We recommend being wary when assigning this right to another user Q Sensorscope Climaps Manuel Utilisateur Page 8 4 3 Profile This part lets you modify your personal information such as your name your address or your phone numbers You can as well modify your password or you e mail address In these two cases you will receive by e mail a link to click on to validate the process You can also see how many credits you have left Credits are used to generate alarms
18. rts sent to this contact will be in English It is possible to provide different phone numbers for text messages and phone calls You may want for instance to send text messages to a cell phone rather than to a fixed line The two numbers may be the same as well Please note that phone numbers must be provided using the 00 prefix international format regardless of the country in which the contact lives Name John Doe E Mail John Doe gmail com Phone SMS 0041771234567 Phone calls 0041771234567 Language en v Creating a contact John Doe Sensorscope Climaps Manuel Utilisateur Page 19 9 2 Creating an Alarm In the Alarms tab click on the Create button When you create an alarm you first have to give it a name In the example below it is named Frost Alarm 9 2 1 Trigger Condition Condition Station 1250 v Decagon Temperature Y js smaller than v 0 Re arm when the value becomes greater than 1 You now have to fill in the trigger condition for the alarm In this example the alarm triggers when the Decagon temperature sensor measures a value below 0 C and is re armed automatically upon measuring a value above 1 C Creating an alarm to detect frost To understand the notion of re arming one must understand the various states an alarm can be in e When an alarm is armed if the associated condition becomes true it triggers e When an alarm triggers alerts are sent Wh
19. see section 9 Alarms The page also shows the minimum number of credits you are allowed to have Below this value your alerts are no longer sent excepting e mails which are free You should thus be careful about your credits when your use the alarm system with text messages or phone calls Climaps lets you give some of your credits to another user To do this you need to know his Climaps login Then just click on the Transfer credits button You are then asked to enter the other user s login and the number of credits you would like to give him Once the process over the credits are removed from your account and added to the account of the other user Hint Giving credits cannot be undone so please be careful when you do this 4 4 Parameters The parameters you can set are e Language The language used to display Climaps e Time Zone The time zone in which you are located e Display of the dates You can choose between UTC and your local time In the latter case your time zone is used to convert dates Q Sensorscope Climaps Manuel Utilisateur Page 9 5 World Map This part can be accessed using the Earth icon in the navigation bar Accessing the world map 5 1 General Overview The world map is surely the part you will be accessing the most It lets you see the location of your stations and displays in real time their data Station 1103 a aN Station 1082 Name 18 04 12 16 28 Coordinates 44 5
20. sing this action you can copy that filter in your own filters Hint When you share a filter with someone he can only access the stations in this filter on which he has the See right You have to specifically give some rights to this user if this is what vou want to do 5 2 2 Actions on Stations These actions act on the selected station Q Sensorscope Climaps Manuel Utilisateur Page 11 e Make the station public If you make a station public everyone gets the See right on that station This action is available only if you have the Modify right on the selected station e Rename the station This action lets give a more significative name to the station in addition to its unique identifier This action is available only if you have the Modify right on the selected station Please note that the name is the same for all Climaps users If you change it it will be changed for everyone e Move the station This action lets you place the station on the world map You can either directly fill in the coordinates or place the station with your mouse This action is available only if you have the Modify right on the selected station e Station reboots This action displays all the reboots of the station as well as the firmware characteristics such as the version or the radio transmission frequency e Select a station This lets you fill in the unique identifier of a station you would like to select rather than looking for it in the
21. t icon in the navigation bar A A P AA A Plot data Accessing the plotting part It lets you plot the data sent by your stations in a more precise way than the small plot on the world map This plot is for instance not limited to the past 5 days of data You can also plot at once the data sent by many stations sensors Apr 14 Apr 16 Apr 18 3002 Decagon Temperature 3033 Decagon Temperature Decagon Temperature Range 7 days Resolution Full dl Plot Data 12 4 2 FVPFL Gel v 3002 v Decagons Temperature 118 042 E FYPFL Gel z 3033 v Decagon Temperature FYPFL Gel v 3042 vY Decagon Temperature Plotting data The general usage is as follows 1 On the bottom left select the interval between which you would like to plot data 2 Select the couple station sensor you would like to plot You can add new values by using the button located on the right or remove some of them by using the corresponding button Please note that the available sensors depend on the dates you have selected some sensors may have been physically added or removed upon time 3 Once statisfied with the selection click on the plot button The plot is displayed and you can play with it in the same way you do with the plot on the world map Hint In the list of stations you can select all in order to plot a sensor s d
22. ur Page 6 4 Control Panel The control panel lets you manage everything about your Climaps account You can get there by clicking on the corresponding icon in the navigation bar on top of the screen The various configuration options are grouped by tabs Accessing your control panel 4 1 Filters If you have access to a large number of stations it may be easier to display only a subset of them when you plot or download data for instance This can be done through the use of filters Let s say you have access to stations 1 2 3 4 and 5 You could decide to create a filter containing only stations 2 and 5 Thus when you select this filter only stations 2 and 5 are visible To create a new filter click on the Create button A dialog box opens up to define the setup of your filter In the example below we create a new filter named EPFL Campus containing stations 41 42 and 43 Filter Name EPFL Campus Available Stations Selected Stations _ Station 1 Y Station 41 Station 11 v Station 42 Station 12 Station 43 Station 14 Station 19 Station 29 Station 32 Station 33 Station 34 Station 35 Station 36 Station 41 Station 42 he de mm A Creating a filter As you can see the dialog box is split into three parts e The text field on top lets you define the name of the filter This is the name you will see later on in the various parts of the website e The left part shows
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