Dashboard
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Creating a custom Dashboard can be a powerful tool whether it is utilized on a Building or Device level.
Enterprise provides a lot of data and which sometimes can be overwhelming, thus the need to streamline what you are looking at at a given time.
It could also be the case that you want to visualize your device metrics a little bit differently so you can better understand how the environment in your Building changes.
Whichever it might me, a Dashboard gives you the freedom to pick exactly what you want and customize how it looks.
Every device that you have registered with Enterprise can have its own Dashboard, which you can created from the Dashboard tab in the Device page.
The process is identical to the Building Dashboard one. Simply enter a name, choose an icon and select the visibility and you have your Dashboard ready.
A Dashboard displays data in the form of Widgets, which you add and select data for. Lets do a quick example of adding one via the blue button at the top right.
Press on the "Add widget" button and a selection of possible choices will be shown.
We are going to choose the "Value" option. This is a widget that displays a single value for a parameter, for example what is the temperature last measured or how humid it is.
As we are going to display the current temperature we are going to name it "Measured Temperature".
We need to associate the widget with one of the parameters of the device, in this case the Measured t°. This is done in the "Data" tab with the drop down menu for the Field metric. The unit will be automatically populated, so select it and leave the rest with the default values.
We want to change the style of the Widget from a simple Linear representation to a nice looking Circular one. Choose the option and set "Values" for the minimum and maximum, give each a color and save the changes (use the image below for reference).
Now you have your first Widget, you can resize, move it, edit, copy or erase it all via the buttons in the Widget box. As you can see in the image below we are at a comfortable 26° C on the scale of 0 to 40.
Let's create another Widget, this time a Heat Map.
This Heat Map will display the Measured Temperature vs Time.
Select the "Data", same parameter as last time, same colors for the value range.
Once you are finished you will see your Heat Map next to your Circular Value Widget. As you can see we are displaying a single parameter, but in two different ways. This is where the power of the Dashboard lies, it gives you ways of customizing how the data is presented to better understand it.
In this particular example we can not only see what the temperature is like right now, but have a historic view of how it changed throughout the hours of each day in the week. This gives us insights into when it was the warmest, when was it too could, etc. so we can look for potential ways to improve.
In the image below you can see for example that one Wednesday there were no measurements till 10AM, thus the Vicki or the Network itself was offline. Additionally, it was way too warm for comfort on Monday and Sunday around 7PM, so there must be an issue there.
you can customize your Dashboard further, any parameter that a device outputs you can display in a number of ways, choose what you need and what fits your use-case.
Let us finish with another example that adds another set of Value and Heat Map Widgets to the ones we created already. We are going to display the RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indicator). This way we can observe how the Temperature changes in the building but also cross reference it with the Signal strength so we can make sure the network itself is healthy.
This would let us know if there are network issue which might be the cause of the temperature inconsistency or the cause is something else (for example the heating system itself not keeping up, or outside interference from the tenants, etc.)
