Monitoring points and Device Orientation
📍🧭 Monitoring points & device orientation
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- Monitoring points benefits
- Monitoring points on the dashboard
- How to assign monitoring points
- Device orientation
- How to update device orientation
- Monitoring points over time
- Monitoring points in reporting
- Reporting: Graphs
- Stats & analysis
- PDF reports
- Monitoring points in downloads
🤩 Monitoring points benefits
- Access location-specific data without the need to recall device names, saving time and eliminating confusion.
- Organise measurements for each location under its designated Monitoring Point, providing a comprehensive overview for efficient analysis.
- Group devices at the same location to easily cross-reference images, audio recordings, and vibration data, gaining valuable insights.
- Ensure accurate readings by assigning devices to Monitoring Points after installation, eliminating the impact of temporary spikes in data.
- Say goodbye to scattered data and enjoy a seamless monitoring experience that empowers you with valuable information at your fingertips.
Monitoring points on the dashboard
- On the Dashboard, you will now see a couple of key differences, the main one being that both
- Monitoring Point and device serial number (e.g. HEX-000139) are shown on the device cards:
- From here, you can filter all the device cards by Monitoring Point from the drop-down, which will just show any devices currently assigned to that Monitoring Point:
How to assign monitoring points
- Click the 'Edit Monitoring Points' button located above your device tiles
- This will take you to the 'Edit Monitoring Points' window.
- Click the 'Create Monitoring Point' button. You will then be able to name your Monitoring Point and drag the Monitoring Point (🔻) to your desired location or enter the Latitude and Longitude if you know it.
- Click 'Save' and then assign your device.
- Select the device from the device dropdown and click save.
🧭 Device Orientation
The SiteHive Hexanode Device's internal compass determines its orientation, which, in turn, affects the measurement of directional sound and camera activation.
To maintain accurate direction of arrival in your media, it's crucial to ensure the correct orientation is maintained.
- After you have selected your device you will be prompted to set up your device orientation - this is important for your Direction of Arrival.
- You can either click and drag the dial or enter the degrees if you know it.
- If your device has already taken images - you can use them to help set your orientation.
- When you are deploying your Hexanode Device on site you can get the orientation of your device by using a compass on your phone.
- To get the correct orientation, place the base of your phone on the SiteHive logo
How to update device orientation
You can change your device orientation or can add in your device orientation if you set up your monitoring point before knowing the device's orientation.
- Click the 'Edit Monitoring Points' button
- When you click 'Edit Monitoring Points' the edit monitoring point window will pop up
- Click the 'Edit Assignment' button next to the device that needs the orientation set up
To set the orientation you can:
- Click and drag the dial to change orientation
- Type the orientation in the text box
- Use the device images by clicking the drop down arrow, if the device has captured media
Monitoring points over time
One of the main benefits of Monitoring Points is that now, data can be assigned to a location independent of which physical device captures it.
In the example below, for the Monitoring Point of Butcher Road, you can see that on the 13th of March, Hexanode serial 55 was on site. This was replaced with Hexanode 179 on the 14th March (so both show up), and on the 15th of March just Hexanode 179 shows up - seamless!
13th March:
14th March:
15th March:
The history of where a device has been can be seen in the Monitoring Points tab in the manage device modal:
And the history of which devices have been at each Monitoring Point and when can be seen in Site Details > Devices & Monitoring Points, allowing you to see all of the physical devices that were present at that location, and when:
Monitoring points in reporting
In Reporting, the default view is still by Parameter, with each device able to be selected by serial number.
Monitoring points in graphs
The graph legend then shows which Monitoring Points this device has been assigned to over time:
It is also now possible to graph by Monitoring Point, which will provide continuous data irrespective of which device was assigned.
Using the same example from Butcher Road above this shows a single line, even though it was contributed to by 2 different devices:
Monitoring points in stats & analysis
Monitoring points can now be used in the Stats and Analysis section to look at trends by monitoring point.
To analyse the monitoring point the time period can be selected using the calendar feature as well as choosing what to analyse e.g. dust and/or water.
If there are multiple devices in this location they can be assigned to a monitoring point to calculate daily averages.
This is also beneficial if devices are only being used for a certain period of time, extra devices are added to a site, need to be replaced or moved to monitor a different area.
Monitoring points in PDF reports
PDF reporting can be calculated for up to six months for different devices e.g. dust, noise, vibration or water. There are two options to generate PDF's including periodic report and an attended summary report. This automatically groups information in a format that is readable and easy to compare against different time periods.
1. Periodic report - this generates a report with key stats, graphs, events and an attended summary for all devices over the selected date range.
2. Attended summary report- this generates a summary report for all attended measurements over the selected data range.
Monitoring points in downloads
The downloads from SiteHive Enviro are largely the same, however, the Monitoring Point name has been added as a new column in all downloads:
