Vista Data Vision offers 3 Toolkits that greatly enhance its capabilities.  All Toolkits are designed to automate complex tasks and free up valueable resources.

When you purchase a Toolkit for Vista Data Vision no installation is needed, you will simply be issued a new Product key that will unlock the purchased Toolkits.

 

Alarm Toolkit:
Alarms are a very powerful feature that will simplify the operation of a network of dataloggers and ease the workload of the operators.

Alarms have twofold purpose:

1. Alarms will monitor new data entered into the database, and send alarms as email and/or SMS Text Message to cellular phones if value of a variable cross pre-defined limits.
   • There are 4 limits LL, L, H and HH that user can define. 
   • The alarm mechanism allows alarm messages caused by the inner limits L and H to be sent to one group of users and the alarm messages caused by the outer limits LL and HH to be sent to second group of users.  This can be useful so operational alarms are sent to users of data while maintenance alarms like low battery and out-of-range values are sent to maintenance group.
   • Reminder messages may be sent once a day to the personel on duty.
   • User groups may be split according to shift plan, so messages are sent to different recipients depending on time of day or day of week.
2. For each dat file being monitored by db.robot.c, the Alarm Toolkit can be set to monitor the age of its latest data.  If dat file does not get updated (by Loggernet), an update notification email and/or SMS Text Message to cellular phone is sent to a group of recipients.

 

 
Alarm Overview available on the VDV website. Web based users with sufficient priviledges can see an overview of all Alarms for the Sites that they have access to. Web based users can confirm Alarms and enter a description that is stored in a Log along with information on the Alarm.

Data Update Setup on the VDV website. Web based users can modify the Data Update Limit for Sites that they have access to.

Alarms being displayed on a Web Map. Alarm status of variables can be connected to Web Maps, providing a powerfull presentation of the current System Status. Each Variable with a active Alarm will be displayed with a yellow indicator for Low and High Alarms and a red indicator for LowLow and HighHigh alarms.

When the mouse cursor is placed over the indicator on the Web Map a detailed description of the variable is displayed, including the current value, variable name, variable engineering unit and the current timestamp.

Read More about Alarms.

 

Report Toolkit:
The Report Toolkit allows users to create Report summaries.  Select variables to include in the Report and which summary action to perform (average, max, min, sum).  The Reports can be generated as a delimited text file document or as a Microsoft Word document.

The Report Toolkit greatly simplifies the process of creating summary reports from logged data. System Administrators can add a valuable service to their customers by automatically creating and sending them weekly/monthly/yearly report.

The Reports can be generated automatically and sent to a group of contacts, for example create a month report on the 1st of each month or create a year report on January 1st.

Read more about Reports.

 

Validation Toolkit:
Validation is used to automatically or manually repair the data in the database according to user defined boundaries. The user can define a maximum and minimum value, which if exceeded the validation toolkit will change the value to a last known good value.

When db.robot.c validates data it first checks if the value is within the legal data range, if it is not within the legal limit it next checks if the number of consecutive values out of the legal data range are lower or equal to the selected Gap Size.  If they are lower or equal to the gap size then the values are replaced by the last good value before, else no action is taken.

For example:  If the data values for a variable are "23.15; -100; 24.21; 23.98; -6999; -6999; -6999; 24.37; 25.14; 26.73;" and the lower limit for the variable is set to -50 and the upper limit is set to 150.

• If the Gap Size is set to 4 then after the validation process those same values would be: "23.15; 23.15; 24.21; 23.98; 23.98; 23.98; 23.98; 24.37; 25.14; 26.73;".
• If the Gap Size had been set to 2 then after the validation process those same values would be: "23.15; 23.15; 24.21; 23.98; -6999; -6999; -6999; 24.37; 25.14; 26.73;".

The Validation Process can be made Automatic or Users can perform Validation Manually for a selected time period.

Image showing a graph with 5 variables. 3 of the Variables have 2 NAN records. By Configuring the Validation Limits for each of those variables to -100 for the Lower Limit and -1 for the Upper Limit, the Validation Process automatically cleans up the data.

The same graph after the Validation Process has cleaned up the data.

Read more about Validation.