Getting started Real Estate Portal IRIS User manual and features
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1. Select command set continuous Delete Command set name Create new Command Repeat z Add Deleteselected Repeat Comman wait nmand Options Enter TurnLeft TurnRight Each terminal is delivered with three pre defined command sets e demo iterates through all available digital content entries and shows them one after another For each shown entry all available pictures and video files are shown in a row Demo command set keeps going through available digital content entries untill application is stopped or command set is changed continuous iterates through all available digital content entries and shows them without putting focus on each of them This means that when an entry comes to a top front position it is not zoomed to full screen and its video and picture files are not shown in a row e single it brings the first available digital content entry and starts showing in an endless loop its video and picture files Depending on user requirements a custom command set can be created and loaded to IRIS terminals Custom command sets can be built by combining five different commands e Repeat defines a loop that can hold other commands e Wait defines a wait block of specific duration e Enter defines a command to bring current top front entry to full screen Getting started Introduction of Real Estate Portal IRIS e TurnLeft defines a request to rotate carousel one position to the left clock2. gt a Openimmo ZIP file exported data a IRIS FTP server Legacy real estate data systems OpenImmo import functionality allows to connect IRIS terminals to different legacy systems and fill in offer data automatically 2 s gt a Ss gt 2 Openlmmpo exported archive Offer information Estate pictures Estate video files estate data IRIS import function expects to recetve an OpenImmo archive file containing estate information XML data and media files pictures and video files During import only data relevant to IRIS database entries is kept Any addition al information that is available but cannot be stored into IRIS database is dis Introduction of Real Estate Portal IRIS Getting started 2 carded In case of a successful upload original archive file is removed from FTP location and stored in a backup folder for keeping track of information flow 1 4 How to work with web management interface Web management interface for terminal system provides a lot of services that make it much easier to set up and modify terminal settings In order to get ac cess to the web management interface one should have a valid login data user name and password for the IRIS web portal This login data can be used also to access the full functionality of the web management interface e Register and Config In order to remotely manage a terminal system it has to be register
3. Enter gt lt Wait value 5000 gt lt Repeat count count 1 gt lt TurnRight gt lt Enter gt lt Wait value 3000 gt lt Repeat gt lt GoBack gt lt TurnRight gt lt Repeat gt lt CommandSet gt lt CommandSet name demo3 gt lt Repeat count inf gt lt Wait value 2000 gt lt TurnLeft gt lt Repeat gt lt CommandSet gt lt Commands gt filters xml contains filters of offers lt FilterSet gt is the main element in filter xml There can be more than one ele ment from this type The content of FilterSet should be sub elements of type FilterGroup The attribute maxcount stores the maximum number of digital content items which can be loaded in the carousel The attribute name identifies the particular FilterSet The attribute logic sets the logic operation which will be applied for its sub el ements in the FilterSet to filter offers The supported logic operations are logi cal and and logical or lt FilterGroup gt set of simple sub filters FilterGroup has one property logic It determines the logic operation to be applied for its sub elements Operations can be logical and and logical or Sub elements of FilterGroup are e AgentUserName e Area e Year e Balcony e ContactName e City e Type 10 Installing the software Getting started All of them have one attribute called cond and their content is text The sub elements refer to fields in the datab
4. be loaded in the carousel lt ActiveCommandSet gt name of a command set from commands xml The se lected command set controls the carousel actions lt Path gt sets the name of the trajectory of the carousel The application searches the particular trajectory in trajectories xml and if it is not found the application calculates the coordinates So far there are three types of trajectories horizon tal vertical and oval If the trajectory is not set then the application ac cepts the default trajectory horizontal lt DeviceID gt is the identifier of the particular terminal It is set automatically from the carousel application commands xml contains command sets for control of the carousel lt CommandSet gt every element of this type collects sufficient description of commands to determine the behavior of the carousel It has one attribute called name that identifies the command set The content of a command set might be elements which refer to particular commands The supported commands are e Repeat has attribute count that defines the number of repetitions e Wait has attribute value which determines the wait time in milliseconds Getting started Installing the software Enter e TurnRight e TurnLeft e GoBack Example contents of commands xml lt xml version 1 0 encoding UTF 8 gt lt Commands gt lt CommandSet name demo gt lt Repeat count inf gt lt Wait value 4000 gt lt
5. update of terminal application 29 Terminal applications are designed to automatically check for updates and in stall them However in some rare cases a system administrator may need to up date the application manually There are two possibilies to trigger the update process Forcing CTRL application to do the updates This method relies on the fact that when started CTRL application automatical ly does a check for available updates Therefore the easiest way to trigger an up date check is to force stop and restart WaveFiveController application In order to force stop an application please use Force stop Android function available from System settings menu in Android and then Apps configuration menu in Android e Updating manually Applications can also be updated manually by force stopping both WaveFive Controller and CarouselDemo applications from Settings menu in Android and then Apps configuration menu Then applications can be uninstalled man ually from this menu and re downloaded from the following URLs www wave five com scripts wavefivecontroller apk for CTRL application e www wave five com scripts CarouselDemo apk for Carousel application Packets can be downloaded with default Android browser and installed by dou ble clicking on them Android package manager recognizes the application type and initiates installation process automatically Getting started Miscellaneous 4 2 How to
6. 2 euros Embedded Systems GmbH Getting started Real Estate Portal IRIS User manual and features Version 07 2013 EUROS Embedded Systems GmbH Campestralse 12 90419 Nurnberg Fon 49 911 300328 0 Fax 49 911 300328 9 Web www euros embedded com eMail support euros embedded com Erste Schritte Contents 1 Installing the software 1 1 Android OS version 4 0 4 1 2 Graphical user interface application 1 3 Terminal control and monitoring application 1 4 Default set of configuration files 1 4 1 Configuration of Carousel application 2 Introduction of Real Estate Portal IRIS 2 1 IRIS ecosystem 2 1 1 Creating digital content through web interface 2 1 2 Creating digital contents through IRIS mobile application 2 1 3 Adding information through OpenImmo import 2 1 4 How to work with web management interface 2 1 5 Setting up and modifying terminal personalization 3 Working with existing digital contents 4 Miscellaneous 4 1 How to force an update of terminal application 4 2 How to force an update of application data 4 3 Known limitations Getting started Getting started in four steps YD Setting up the terminal Z Introduction of Real Estate Portal IRIS Cy Working with existing digital contents amp Miscellaneous Getting started Installing the terminal e A terminal consists of hardware and software components IRIS display terminal Android OS version 4 0 4 with default configuration file
7. 4823226ca913e5 Terminal identifier is shown by the Carousel GUI application when it is started Identifier is shown only when Carousel application is started and there are no configuration files available Once this identifier is shown a system adminis trator user should log in with his credentials to configuration site available at http www wave five com cnfms and register the terminal After a terminal has been registered a default config uration will be created for it and downloaded automatically to the terminal de vice Note Terminals delivered with standard configuration inside will not show this mes sage at startup The idea of this message is to assign system administrators into regis tering the terminals for a first time Normal users are not expected to see it or make use of this feature Installing the software Getting started 1 2 Graphical user interface application Graphical user interface application is essential for providing terminal servic es It is responsible for Display of available digital contents in user friendly way e g as carousel Download and regular update of available information from centralized data base Download and update of configuration files from centralized configuration database Automatic or manual upon request when there is a keyboard available change of displayed items and navigation between their visual elements detailed pictures A carousel type of graphical use
8. ase The attribute cond sets the condition in the filter The supported conditions are equals not equal contains n not contain greater less The conditions are applied for the content of a sub element of FilterGroup ver sus the values for a particular field in the database Example contents of filters xml lt xml version 1 0 encoding UTF 8 gt lt Filters gt lt FilterSet name test logic and maxcount 8 gt lt FilterGroup logic and gt lt AgentUserName cond equals gt admin lt AgentUserName gt lt Year cond greater gt 1999 lt Year gt lt FilterGroup gt lt FilterGroup logic or gt lt City cond not_equal gt Munich lt City gt lt Year cond less gt 2013 lt Year gt lt FilterGroup gt lt FilterSet gt lt Filters gt e trajectories xml description of the possible trajectories of the carousel If this XML file does not exist it can t be read or its data is corrupted then the application calculates each coordinate of the selected trajectory lt Path gt element which describes one trajectory It has two attributes name and width There can be a third attribute called default but it is reserved for future use The attribute name identifies the trajectory The attribute width shows the width of the display in pixels for which the tra jectory is calculated The content of a Path element are elements of type Point that determines the coordi
9. ed for a spe cific user Since one user can manage multiple terminals settings can be modi fied for each of them separately Registration of a terminal is done by entering its unique identification number and pressing the Register button Terminal ID Register Once a terminal identifier is registered different properties like name and loca tion can be assigned to it These properties are used in order to be able to easily recognize and identify the terminal with human readable strings Terminal properties can be changed dynamically and are automatically downloaded and applied to the respective terminal device Therefore it is important to type in correctly the termianal identifier otherwise the system will not be able to cor rectly match the physical terminal device There are three main configuration functions available for each terminal Reset Terminal Data Reset Terminal Config Unregister Getting started Introduction of Real Estate Portal IRIS Reset Terminal Data function is used when it is necessary to initiate a complete download of diginal contents assigned to this terminal Therefore this function should be used only when its necessary Reset Terminal Config function is used when it is necessary to wipe out old terminal configuration and trigger a download of configuration currently set through the web management interface Therefore this function should be used with care and only w
10. eo and picture files to ten that means that after export only the first ten items will be used Mobile application can be installed from an APK file available at http www wave five com 3000 scripts Real 20Estate apk Users should be aware that although applicaiton can be downloaded and in stalled without any required login information in order to export data to IRIS Getting started Introduction of Real Estate Portal IRIS server they would need to configure it and provide valid user name and pass word Mobile application makes use of smartphone camera to create pictures and vid eo files Select camera mode Picture Video Therefore picture and video quality depends on smartphone features but usually it is high enough to represent correctly real estate natural features Introduction of Real Estate Portal IRIS Getting started Real estate offers that have not been uploaded can be modified also from mo bile application however once they are uploaded they can be modified only from IRIS web site A typical offer editing screen is shown below Title Kaufpreis Getting started Introduction of Real Estate Portal IRIS 2 1 3 Adding information through OpenImmo import IRIS system also allows to import existing data from OpenImmo standard ar chive files Data transfer can be accomplished either through FTP or HTTP ser vices with version 1 0 of application scripts supporting only FTP Import scripts
11. force an update of application data Application data is automatically updated when this is necessary in case of new offers offer modification including offer deletion and or modification in configuration data However in some rare cases a system administrator may need to trigger a data update manually In order to trigger full data update please follow these steps 1 Stop CTRL application from Settings gt Apps menu 2 Stop CarouselDemo application from Settings gt Apps menu 3 Start a file explorer Terminals come with preinstalled explorer package 4 Delete mnt sdcard Demo 5 Log in to the configuration panel www wave five com cnfms and select Reset Terminal data button in Reset and Config section 6 Start CarouselDemo application from Settings gt Apps menu 7 Start CTRL application from Settings gt Apps menu At this point Carousel application should contact the server again and download all data Kindly note that in order to complete the download process internet connection should be available Depending on the amount of data downloading can take long time and download progress is communicated through an animat ed GIF shown on the terminal screen Miscellaneous Getting started 4 3 Known limitations The following limitations are known and enforced by planning and design deci sions Table 1 Known limitations Module Description IRIS web application Each digital content entr
12. hen its necessary Unregister terminal function will remove registration of the currently se lected terminal In case the terminal needs to be accessed again through the web management interface it has to be registered again as described above e Assign Properties This functional set allows to configure digital contents filter to be assigned to currently selected terminal Offer 2 Show estates from Select All Deselect All Offer 3 Sort by Title Sort by Date Offer 0 The period selection combo box allows to show only those of the available en tries that fit a pre defined time period This is only done for convenience and to ease selection If one wants to have a more complete list of objects assigned to his IRIS portal then timing period can be extended to 1 year 20 Introduction of Real Estate Portal IRIS Getting started 21 Only items that have been explicitly selected will be downloaded and shown on the terminal To avoid misunderstanding of selection terms please note that Show estates from combo box refers only to the management interface Only properties that have been checked are downloaded to the terminal In case there is nothing cheched on the list digital contents to download are selected in ran dom way e Commands Commands functions let user specify a command set to be used by a terminal Command sequence can be either pre defined or user defined sequence
13. l estate offer that has been created with IRIS mobile application In this scenario real estate agent phone is used to temporary hold important ob ject information and media files associated with a given real estate Once Introduction of Real Estate Portal IRIS Getting started Zi enough information has been collected there it can be exported automatically to IRIS database and offer will be created automatically 1 2 Creating digital contents through IRIS mobile applica tion IRIS mobile application supports Android smartphones and makes it possible to dramatically reduce the effort of collecting information pictures and video files used to describe a real estate Collected information can be later on exported to IRIS database and displayed on terminal screen 1_ Internet Mobile application Application data control IRIS database scripts Mobile application has the following features e Describing real estate objects e Making pictures of real estate objects e Making video files of real estate objects Informaion is kept locally on the smartphone until it is successfully exported to IRIS database server Depending on customer preferences real estate objects can be kept archived in smartphone internal storage even after they have been exported to the database server Each real estate object can have arbitrary number of pictures and video files as signed to it However since web page limits the number of assigned vid
14. nates Each Path should include exactly 361 Point elements 0 360 degrees If their number does not reach 361 the particular trajectory is not val id and the application calculates the coordinates lt Point gt contains the coordinates x y z for an angle 0 360 A Point element has four attributes and no space The first attribute is called angle and it stores the angle which coordinates are described by the other attributes Only non neg ative integer numbers are accepted for angle The other three attributes are the non Ml MM coordinates x y z They are read by the application as float numbers 2 Introduction of Real Estate Portal IRIS Introduction of Real Estate Portal IRIS Getting started 2 1 IRIS ecosystem IRIS terminals are part of a larger ecosystem that includes database servers web applications data import interfaces and mobile device applications Although a terminal can work as a standalone system making use of its full potential re quires to have a network connection and the ability to exchange information with other components as shown on the figure below E IRIS database and server system Terminal access scripts Web and Openimmo access External access scripts Secure Secure Communication Communication channel channel Mobile application Real estate agent Secure Communication channel Secure Web interface Openilmmo data sammuneen web a
15. pplication page data upload channel ce Gai ila Ki J Real estate agent Real estate agent External OpenImmo system required to export data Mobile application Real estate agent Therefore a terminal should be configured to establish and use a secure commu nication channel to terminal access scripts These scripts provide a secure ac cess to IRIS database system Web interface and OpenImmo import scripts in teract also with the main database to ensure data integrity 13 Getting started Introduction of Real Estate Portal IRIS 2 1 1 Creating digital content through web interface The IRIS system allows to add and modify digital content e g offers and their properties through convenient web interface In this case the process of adding offers is shown on the diagram below O Information added later from PC Taking pictures LESS LE Real Estate Agent amp IRIS Real Portal Direct upload M FY fn dei AA fi Real Estate Agent Taking ane Information added on mobile application There are two possibilities to add information about a real estate offer e manually inserting the offer through web interface In this scenario user needs to login on IRIS web page www wave five com and fill in offer description elements Picture and video files that have been tak en in advance can be uploaded and assigned to newly created offer e creating and modifying a rea
16. r interface application is started automatically upon system boot and remains active as long as the terminal is running In case of a problem for example software exception or power failiure the application is automatically re stated to ensure that there is always an active carousel appli cation running in full screen mode 1 Herein terminal services refers to showing digital contents in a structured way and updating it regularly Getting started Installing the software 1 3 Terminal control and monitoring application Terminal control and monitoring application is running in the background without accessible visual elements Primary responsiblities of this application are e Continuously monitor the system temperature and in case it reaches pre defined boundaries to try to decrease it by reducing brightness of the screen Check regularly for available updates for Carousel application and install them when available e Check regularly for available updates for control and monitoring application and apply them in case they are available e Report temperature and usage statistics to a centralized database system e Check if the Carousel application is running and restart it if necessary iller im Bauhausstil Kaufpreis 1 198 100 00 Zimmer 6 Schlafzi 4 Badezi 2 Balkon Terrasse Ja K Wohnfl che ca 227 m aan Wohnungstyp Einfamilienhaus freistehend i i i Monitoring and control application makes u
17. remove existing terminals This is particularly useful when a customer has a large number of terminals and would 22 Introduction of Real Estate Portal IRIS Getting started like to assign them a particular roles for example serving information provided by one employee only or to assign them to a particular offer v Terminals 1 Ba CCS Terminal Terminals are identified by their unique ID as described at the beginning of this document but they can also be given a human readable name and an address which makes it possible to keep track on installed terminals and associate them with different digital contents In order to reconfigure a terminal please refer to this the opening of this section or to respective How to items in Chapter 4 23 3 Working with existing digital GB contents Working with existing digital contents Getting started Real estate offers frequenty need to be modified or even deleted This can be done from the IRIS web application as shown below WANE FE Komplett NEU RENOVIERT mit BALKON in Nurnberg NORD Top 2 Zimmer Wohnung Nurnberg Rechenberg I E O Kaufpreis USD 280000 00 Provision 3 57 Berlin Kreuzberg Immobilie ID 8070 Marken Zimmer 3 Flache 73 77 m2 Schlafzimmer 1 Badezimmer 1 Wohnzimmer 1 Editing digital content is accessible via dedicated icon A 25 Getting started Working with existing digital contents Editing an offer ma
18. s Graphical user interface application Carousel APK Terminal control and monitoring application WaveSCTRL Optional set of configuration files Installing the software Getting started A fully equipped terminal will automatically boot Android after being powered on and automatically run the Carousel APK and WaveSCTRL applications after operating system has been started Fach terminal system interacts with the following software components centralized database system storing information on all available offers web application offering access to this centralized database system web application offering user interface for creating modifying terminal sys tem configuration files mobile phone application allowing to export information collected on the phone to the centralized database web application offering import of OpenImmo real estate data GUI tool for automating configuration changes and configuration updates Getting started Installing the software 1 1 Android OS version 4 0 4 Terminals come with preinstalled Android ICS built for Telechips microcon troller TCC8920 It is a standard Android build with the following extensions Dedicated driver for brightness control using TCC PWM module e Dedicated driver for camera module and v4l layer driver Fach terminal has a unique identifier assigned to it that can be used to identify and address the terminal modify its configuration and assign request data for it ID 2d
19. se of temperature and brightness sensors to read information about system status and take corrective actions if necessary When temperature rises above a dangerous level configured in a XML file then monitoring and control application starts to reduce screen brightness steps can be configured also in the XML file but default step is to reduce increase current level by 5 Installing the software Getting started 1 4 Default set of configuration files Prior to its delivery to a customer a terminal system has to be configured This section gives a short overview of the configuration files their structure and de fault values 1 4 1 Configuration of Carousel application Carousel application reads the basic user configuration from XML files during its initialization There are four XML files which determine the particular con figuration and they are described below in this document All of the files are stored on the Android device in sdcard demo directory e config xml the main configuration file lt DeviceName gt element which contains the name of the device It is reserved for future use lt RequestInterval gt time interval in seconds for checking new updated digital contents in the database If this element is missing or not set properly then the default interval will be set by the application 60 seconds lt ActiveFilterSet gt name of a filter from filters xml which determines the digital contents from the database to
20. wise e TurnRight defines a command to rotate carousel one position to the right counter clock wise 2 1 5 Setting up and modifying terminal personalization Terminal personalization are typically set prior to delivering the terminal to a customer However later on they can be modified and automatically reloaded by terminal software throught a dedicated web application that is available at http www wave five com cnfms This application provides a list of all terminals that are registered for a user ter minals can have different physical locations and allows to modify their config uration parameters Terminal ID Register Configuration Terminal Name CCS Terminal Company Name immobilien boecker Terminal ID 103465367513268475 Agent Name aer Location Krefeld Request Interval 30 seconds Street Command set demo Number of Terminals 1 Trajectory oval Reset Terminal Data Reset Terminal Config Unregister Typical configuration parameters are e Request interval the interval of time at which to check for data updates e Command set example sequence of commands executed while showing automatically different offers e g different real estate offers e Trajectory selection of available trajectories that should be used when mov ing different objects on terminal screen Terminal configuration interface also allows to modify list of terminals assigned to a particular account e g add modify or
21. y be necessary not only to fix a mistyped or wrong figure in offer description but also due to the following important reasons e Marking offer as non visible on the terminal This can be done by using the Don t show icon on the icon tab Changing an offer visibility will trigger also an update of terminal data which means that file changes will be triggered next time terminal application checks for offer updates e Changing picture ordering for an offer Changing picture ordering is important to make it possible to show new pictures or more informative pictures first Multimedia Bild 1 ey Bilcitite i era gt Bild 2 t Bildtitel t ig x so T b Bild hinzuf gen Videos Video hinzuf gen Picture ordering can be changed in one direction only by bringing a specifc picture up e g to a position closer to the top front e Deleting an offer n The function Deleting an offer allows to keep only those offers that are still active There is an important difference between deleting and offer which 26 Working with existing digital contents Getting started means that it is completely removed from the database and changing its visibil ity which means that the offer remains in the database but is not shown on the terminal screen Note Once an offer has been deleted it can t be reconstituted 27 4 Miscellaneous amp Miscellaneous Getting started 4 1 How to force an
22. y can have up to 10 pictures and up to 10 video files IRIS web application Each user account should have a valid email address assigned to it One email can be assigned to multiple accounts Carousel graphical application Each entry can display up to 14 textual and numerical properties Each visible digital content property text or number consists of a single line new line characters are not used and not handled by the Carousel application Carousel graphical application config Each path description should contain exactly 361 points Path descriptions with less than 361 points are conside red invalid Controller application config Controller application configuration cannot be updated remotely and requi res to update the application itself Update is done automatically when new version of controller application is released Known limitations can be released on demand as they relate to current design and optimizations implemented to reduce code complexity and concentrate mainly on core features 31
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