The Control Panel application is designed to offer a complete overview of the current state of the Sensor System. Users will have configured event triggers when configuring their Sensor network – such as detecting when Humidity in the Data Room drops below 30%. If the current sensor reading "triggers" an event, then an "alert" is activated.

 

The Control Panel view displays all current active alerts. An alert is described as active, until a user acknowledges the alert; this task can be performed in the Control Panel tool. The sensor network administrator can decide if different triggers require an acknowledgement or not – as such the severity of triggers that can be considered for efficient operation. As well as the sensor alerts, all the current sensor values are displayed in a tabular or hierarchical view. Any client user whether within the same building or indeed remotely connecting from the Internet can use the Control Panel to view the current sensor status.

The Layout Viewer allows users to get a graphical view of their sensor system overlaid upon any supplied image, in this example a building floor plan.

The Layout Viewer can be configured to associate the currently read sensor value with a particular colour, for example spreading from blue through to red over a humidity range from 0% to 100%. The viewer will automatically update the colour scheme on the image as the sensors readings vary.

Both the Control Panel and the Layout Viewer applications display latest Sensor information.

The Data Browser tool will allow users to retrieve historical information from the database stored on the Server.

Clients can select their time/date ranges, and the Data Browser tool will retrieve all data, and will automatically plot a line or bar chart depending on the data type. Data can be exported to be opened in other data manipulation and analysis tools, such as Microsoft Excel.

By combining the Layout View with sensor historical data, the Layout Player function can replay fluctuations of sensor data over a period of time in a short animation. For example we can play an entire days temperature fluctuations over a one minute animation. The sensor data will be averaged out and the correct colour will be selected from the player’s spectrum and applied to the animation.

Adapt Sense is an iPhone / iPod Touch application for displaying current values and alerts. Every time an alert is raised the user will receive a push notification.