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1. Monitoring Softwar Monitoring Software Done Q Internet Protected Mode Off 3 01 Select Projects If you have access to multiple projects within the database opened then you will see a drop down selector at the top labelled Select Project By clicking here you will see all of the projects that you have access to You can also perform the following administrative tasks Create a new project within the database here Edit Users details Edit email groups Change your password Logout Argus Info We will cover these items later in this manual Once you select a project from the drop down list you will see the full menu bar Ditm ITM Limited User Manual The toolbar provides simple access to the functions within Argus ARGUS Monitoring Software itm soil Demo Site k Select project plot Edit project New project Select plan view e Edit plan views Create one time plot Edit project plots Edit email groups lt lt lt Monitoring Software itm ITM Limited Argus User Guide See Section 3 03 See Section 3 04 See Section 3 05 See Section 3 07 See Section 3 08 See Section 3 09 See Section 3 10 See Section 3 11 See Section 3 12 See
2. erae m e Ae HE TEE ES masm li bi on a e ien Ps LA obt wai naka das camur aen Move the mouse to the bottom right corner of the area to view blue lines will show the area defined and then left click again e ae SILET ERE RE ar mesm ba n ar ge ir Ps LAT obt af 1 ad Ar caen aen The area will then be shown Further zooming can be done as many times as required To return to the original chart click on the REES EES pem desi cula O magnifying glass shown in the top left i corner of the plot window Ae alis ei AE RE mmg oem lk ia isemi ge Tee LA t a na ANN ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide Section 6 Project Configuration Administrator Only 6 01 New Project This is to set up another project within the same database as long as the licence allows for an additional project Project Name Company Logo 155 pixels x 155 pixels Project Logo 400 pixels x 300 pixels Time zone Servertime 24 Mar 2010 07 35 Servertime 0 e 00 e Users with access to this project John Smith Paul Smith The user must firstly enter a new project name this is the only mandatory field selecting logos is optional If none are specified the default Argus Logos will be used When selecting images to use for logos they must be no larger than the size specified and of the following format PNG
3. lessen nennen nnne nnn nnne nnns 69 Section 14 Users Administrator Only 11111 Lese ee iileeecceliieeee enean naa a saa a aaa a aas asas saa s uasa saa a asas anra 70 14 01 Sale EG a D UU ums 70 14 02 o al 96 TOUD aa baas TENET e E o OA 71 14 03 Unange Pass 0 0 NETTE T T E OT TOT 71 14 04 MECA DO gi RR OE T ee 72 EE A PRINS E 74 E ENTENDU 74 itm ITM Limited User Manual Appendix B Appendix C ITM Limited Argus User Guide Filemanager STETERUNT Inclinometer Data anni ri dile ASO E ele Virtual EEN Troubleshooting WE End User License Agreement eese itm 4 User Manual Argus User Guide Section 1 Introduction ARGUS Monitoring Software is a web based data management calculation and presentation tool lt provides a reliable and cost efficient method for processing and monitoring ASCII files with numerical data ARGUS will handle all data processing requirements starting with storage of data into a MySQL database performing the required calculations on the data presenting the results in graphical and numerical format generate alarm messages creating automated PDF reports and much more ARGUS Monitoring Software is server based Users interact with the software using their web browser Working with ARGUS is therefore platform independent and can be accomplished from the local network
4. itm ITM Limited 45 User Manual Argus User Guide 7 08 Editing the Sensor configuration 7 09 The senor configuration can be edited individually per sensor by clicking the edit option If you would like to delete a sensor from the project click the option delete Editing multiple sensors simultaneously is possible by using the find and replace function Select a field name that includes the text you would like to replace add multiple sensors that require replacing or enter the sensor ID s directly as a comma separated text or as a range 1 10 enter a search and replace text and press the button replace Exporting and Importing the Sensor configuration It is possible to export the complete sensor configuration to a text file edit it and import it again into the project Take care not to mix up the fields when importing the file again If you feel unsure always edit your sensor configuration in ARGUS itself In the export file all fields are separated with If you would like to add new sensors leave the first two fields Internal Sensor ID and Sensor ID blank ARGUS will assign ID s automatically NB Sensors will not be deleted when you delete them and import the new configuration Remark When importing a new sensor configuration all sensor IDs with incorrect formulas will be shown Note Importing a new sensor configuration or using the search and replace function will overwrite existi
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7. The calculated value for the sensor A single value or multiple All positions in one line of information are fixed If for a certain field no information is available nothing will be written at this position and the next character will be the semicolon separator Text fields are exported with quotes Values are written in the file using a point as decimal separator A thousands separator is not used A 4 3 Multi value sensors In ARGUS a sensor can be configured to have multiple values For example a geodetic monitoring point could have 3 values the X Y and Z coordinates These values are written at the end of the line with a semicolon as separator Example of an ASCII export 2004 01 01 00 00 00 Barometer mbar Project site Manual measurement 999 10000 single value 2004 01 01 00 00 00 162001 Kpa CRS 6 m NAP 66 00000 34 00000 12 50000 multi value A 4 4 ASCII File Format Type II This export format will export all calculated measurement values of the sensor in the database starting from the last successful export All sensors will be exported with the exception of sensors that were specified not to export The ASCII file is limited to a maximum amount of lines per file adjustable when this limit is reached a new file will be created and the export will continue until all sensors values have been exported When an ASCII 2 export starts a lock file will be created to avoid that multiple ascii 2
8. 1 O 1 1013 0 1 3 21 3 0 059984 Note the 10 at the beginning of the formula for sensor 11 The way ARGUS works is that it will recognize that this is a calculated sensor without data in the database It will select the timestamps the measurement interval from the sensor with ID 10 and assign calculated values to the timestamps by using the formula expression following the sign In this example it will use the calculated output from the sensor with ID 10 and subtract the barometric correction and temperature correction Other useful features are adding or subtracting sensor results averaging sensor results etc For example if you would install 4 strain gauges on a pile or on a strut you would like to know the average calculated load of all sensors In that case you would create a calculated sensor 1 1 2 0 4 4 7 03 2 Mathematical expressions abs Absolute value abs mixed number acos Arc cosine acos float arg acosh Inverse hyperbolic cosine acosh float arg asin Arc sine asin float arg asinh Inverse hyperbolic sine asinh float arg atan2 arc tangent of two variables atan2 float y float x atan Arc tangent atan float arg atanh Inverse hyperbolic tangent atanh float arg COS Cosine cos float arg cosh Hyperbolic cosine cosh float arg deg2rad Converts degrees to radian deg2rad float arg exp e to the power of exp float arg log10 Base 10 logarithm log10 float arg log Natural loga
9. ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide AA ASCII export The ASCII Export function allows 3 party software to process the measurement results generated by ARGUS The server administrator configures the ASCII export interval on the server A 4 1 Configuration There are two types of ASCII export type 1 which exports the single plan view values and type 2 which exports all calculated values since the last export Configuration settings selectable in the ASCII Export menu Write ASCII file to local directory or FTP after creation to a remote server Create copies of the ASCII file in a local directory Prefix for the ASCII filename Selection of sensors not to export sensor ID s comma separated Modify timestamp of last export per sensor only type Maximum amount of lines per ASCII file Type 1 Planview values Type 2 Calculated values Do not export sensors 1000 Do not export sensors 1000 max lines per ASCII file 0000 max lines per ASCII file 0000 Local directory Calculation days Local directory Copy to directory 1 asciiexport Copy to directory 2 Copy to directory 1 Copy to directory 2 exp typl_1507 b exp _typ2_1507 b FTP p type 1 E MN L exp kupi 1507 zftph The ASCII file name will start with the prefix as specified in the configuration for example argus export and will end with a Unb timestamp and the extension txt An example filename argus export 1105014733 txt The Uni
10. MAKARA papah so Ns AM kI PA ERA KAJI Hz p presi npt Gebuer ici ded uses gei Ernest Es E i w noe Protected hirder Dn You can add up to 32 sensors in each x t plot 9 01 2 x y Plot The x y plot is a plot based on x y co ordinates Each co ordinate is defined by a formula with the same functionality as sensor formulas This type of plot can be used for automated inclinometer systems EL IPI EL Beam systems Hydrostatic profiler data and similar systems whereby chain calculations or another form of calculation is required hr Poet Pestecied eode UH 9 01 3 x yt Plots The X yt plot is a plot whereby sensors are plotted against the result of another sensor in order to observe the relation between sensors Therefore one sensor has to be assigned to the X axis and the other sensors are plotted against these results As there is no time relation between such results this type of plot is usually plotted with marks dots so no lines are connecting the measurement points This plot can be used for example to determine the relation of temperature effects on measurement results or a relation between wind speed and wind direction ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide 9 01 4 Horizontal amp Vertical Virtual Plot These two plot types allow you to combine two or three existing plots in the project into one plot The horizontal version will allow you to plot two existing plots next to each other the vertical ve
11. Users with guest privileges are only able to download documents first folder 7 Fllets 11 1 MB Rename directory f Block access for quests tp 2 File s 376 6 KB Rename directory Block access for quests testfalder 2 Filets 45 1 KB Rename directory Allow access for quests testmanuell 2006 09 04 pdf 58 2 KB 2006 20 09 14 43 20 AO New file New directory You will also have to use the filemanger if you want to assign photos to any sensors Herefore just upload any photos into the directory gfx After this you will be able to assign them to any sensor in the sensor configuration itm ITM Limited User Manual A 3 Argus User Guide Inclinometer Data This Addin will allow users to process data from inclinometer measurements The Digitilt and Soil Instruments inclinometer system are supported as standard please contact us if you would like to import inclinometer data from a different system In order to import ASCII files from the DigiTilt inclinometer system the ASCII files have to be created first Start the AAA LEET 000 Installation Select the inclinometer installation and the survey you would like to import into SE Joen Hl A ARGUS Right click the mouse and select Survey Time Export as Tab Delimited ASCII This ASCII ES file is now ready for import into ARGUS e Please note that the time of the survey has es Se to be entered in ARGUS as the survey time is not written in the
12. FTP upload is not accepted Time consuming calculation Circular reference in formula No data for sensor Pop Up Blocker active Old data is shown ASCII import not running Changes in sensor name or sensor after planview was created Wrong sensor names Time consuming report plots Email not functioning Sever MTA configuration Importing a file without sensor ID s will create new Sensors Solution Check spelling of URL Check network settings of server and PC Ping server and contact your network admin Edit file projectname var variablenxxx php on the server contact server administrator Use JPG PNG or GIF images Try to save the image with another programme and upload again for example paint Server admin has to enable write access to the gfx directory Check Import and delete lock file Check ASCII datafile Check sensor path configuration Try a manual import by opening the page projectname cron index php Check with FTP programme if uploads are accepted by the server Wait longer Check formula in sensor configuration Check that all sensors have data in the selected time range You have to deactivate your popup blocker Refresh the page F5 See above Delete sensors from planview and place them again Check sensor configuration and make sure all sensors have unique short names Wait longer Check email settings Contact your server admin edit the server Mail Transfer Agent
13. at least a Name and Name short have to Export sensor data Import sensor data Find and replace create new sensor Find sensorname Change list itm ITM Limited been entered Here you can export your whole sensor configuration You will get a text file with separated fields Here you can import a sensor configuration which have been exported by the previous function You can replace defined content in almost every column Will open a form where the input fields are arranged among each other to create a new sensor Searching for sensors will look for id serial number and short name lt is possible to hide columns by selecting the checkboxes of the columns in the pop up window This setting is saved for each individual administrator 38 User Manual Argus User Guide 7 03 1 Calculated Sensors Normally a sensor will have data in the database and when calculations are being made the raw data is retrieved from the database and calculated to engineering units In ARGUS it is possible to configure sensors that do not have data in the database This would be interesting for example if you would like to create two plots of a Piezometer one with and one without barometric and temperature correction In this case you would configure the following two sensors Formula for real sensor with ID 10 uncorrected A pow value 2 B value C Formula for calculated sensor with ID 11 corrected 1 O
14. step would be to set the standard plot parameters like titles scales legend etc If no scales are set the plot is created with auto scales The following settings are available Calculate every x value Legend Grid Date Format Title Sub title Title X Axis Align X Axis Title left Y Axis Y1 Align Left Y axis Y1 Title right Y Axis Y2 Align Right Y axis Y2 Manual Skale X Axis Manual Skale left Y Axis Y1 itm ITM Limited Skip readings example Every 2 readings would reduce your data for the graph by half Create a legend for the plot Sensor line colour name Display the grid lines Define the datum notation style for the X axis for example d m y Options are a am or pm A AM or PM d day of the month 2 digits with leading zeros i e 01 to 31 D day of the week textual 3 letters e g Fri F month textual long e g January g hour 12 hour format without leading zeros i e 1 to 12 G hour 24 hour format without leading zeros i e 0 to 23 h hour 12 hour format i e 01 to 12 H hour 24 hour format i e 00 to 23 minutes i e 00 to 59 j day of the month without leading zeros i e 1 to 31 lowercase L day of the week textual long e g Friday m month i e 01 to 12 M month textual 3 letters e g Jan n month witho
15. www itm soil com MAC address 00 50 56 43 32 24 Maximum amount of projects 9 Maximum amount of sensors 9999 Licenced to ITM Soil Ltd Terms EULA Close Window 3 06 Logout Click to exit Argus The user is then returned to the initial login screen ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide Section 4 Plan Views 4 01 Plan Format A plan view is a view of your project by using an image on top of which the installed sensors are displayed This image can be a copy of a CAD drawing a photo or a sketch The sensors will display their newest latest measurement result and the current alarm level The Site Maps can be in various formats drawings photos plans etc The file format of these can be JPG GIF or PNG 4 01 1 Site Plans SS O_o R AT EN d V bs CE ROCK m Ix Wil ll MII wll ii li EA ER wf CEI f a sl X E emn ns a ARRAY 100 hainaga Tim Saihan C d Street do bipogss 4 01 3 Photographs e EU This ja HOT a Fea imag zz ITM Limited User Manual 4 02 4 03 Argus User Guide Map Tool Bar The toolbar shows the Map Time along with buttons for printing or re calculating the data shown along with a refresh option 4 02 4 Map Time The timestamp on the left upper corner will display the newest latest measurement value from the sensors in the selected plan view 4 02 2 Refresh Rate The plan view has an opti
16. 10 00 00 1505 10 00100 16 05 10 00 00 1705 10 00100 16 03 10 00100 19703710 00100 20 05 10 00 00 21 03 10 00 00 22 03 10 00 00 es 3 10 00 00 24 05 10 00100 en 3 10 00 00 I4 EP se ae e PS La ESI 1 i KA 4 m javascriptimouseclick document getElementByld p QD Internet Protected Mode Off fo e 100 4 07 Graphs on Plan Views Its also possible to place project graphs as a graph box or graph mark directly on the planview Clicking on the Graph Box or Mark will open the associated project plot in an extra window Graph Box Graph Mark The tooltip reveals the plot name T itm j ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide Section 5 Project Plots This drop down selection box holds all the project graphs that have been created by the administrator These graphs are configured to display a time period ranging from the newest latest measurement to a certain amount of days ago This way the graphs will always show the latest developments in measurement results ARGUS Monitoring Software Above Ground Tiltmeters Microsoft Internet Explorer provided by ITM Soil Ltd lol x e http soil co uk greenpark index php s cat plot info amp s urlzaW5kZXgucGhwP3NfY2F0PXBsb3QmaV9wcm9qZWNOPTMmYI9pbmZ PUZBTFNFIr Devonshire House Tiltneter D82 Blue X Green Y M f 1 i c EEN J gal ms UA eg E A RUE Tw WT E A Ses Y mart PUT Md dra rt OT EISEN i 2 2 o2 0 4
17. 24414 180 02 06 08 06 34 24204 980 02 06 08 06 36 24494 371 02 06 08 06 39 BN 603 02 06 08 06 40 BBM 79 02 06 08 06 40 24236 344 02 06 08 06 41 BB 320 Here the radio ID is matched to a serial number in the sensor configuration table 7 06 9 Manual CSV Data This format is similar to the above but in this case the sensor name is matched to a Short Name in the sensor configuration table A typical example is 01 01 2009 12 00 00 403 GP 3 N1 3 346 1 01 2009 12 00 00 DB 3 513 1 01 2009 12 00 00 DB 3 480 1 01 2009 12 00 00 DB 3 507 1 01 2009 12 00 00 WE 3 431 1 01 2009 12 00 00 DB 3 460 1 01 2009 12 00 00 403 GP 9 N1 3 540 0 O 0 0 0 0 itm ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide 7 06 10 Ref File I Ris This is for data from the Soil Instruments I Ris Robotic Toatl Station software or from the Leica program APSWin Job Name DEFAULT JOB 08 06 2008 16 34 00 Old St 0 0 0 Cycle 1 POINT ID HZ pov e D e PPM TT Date Time Status Comment Herl 0 00036 e 89 71217 y 107 8627 O ro x 8 6 2008 1623420 y 0 Ref2 py 0 64987 r 09 232909 y 90 4873 e O rO y 862009 y 1633430 y Os Ref3 r EI E 36 y 91 02274 100 2981 0 e 0O p 8 6 2009 y 1623420 y 0 3 Ref4 p 177 4726 90 50339 y 115 5648 y O z O 0052008 1623470 y 0 P101A 3 607975 90 85984 y 43 5545 x O y O 8 6 2008 y 16 34 0 O ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide 7 07 Da
18. ASCII file In order to import this ASCII file in ARGUS you first have to create an inclinometer installation Add a new sensor and specify in the sensor long name the word inclinometer ARGUS will recognise this sensor as an inclinometer installation and it will be listed in the inclinometer Addin as an inclinometer installation If you would like to use another word instead of inclinometer please contact your administrator Installation Select the installation for the survey System Type Inclinometer System used Survey Time Time of the survey Survey The ASCII file on your PC Send Send survey to ARGUS Once the survey has been received the checksums will be determined and displayed Once you confirm with OK the survey will be added to the inclinometer installation itm ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide A 3 1 Inclinometer Plots You are able to add the inclinometer plots manually or you can add a plot automatically with the following tool 3 DMM for Windows Version 1 14 5 Fille Tools DataMate Survey Window Help ef C Program Files DigiPro D ata S ample MDB C Program FilessDigiPro D ata S ample MDB rn E SR18 IN1 Probe S N 25426 Re Probe Constant 4110 24 05 199 E 02106099 Print Tab Delimited ASCII Probe Type JD iaitil 02 06 7199 Validate To PCSLIN Operator 02 06 199 Compare 10 06 199 Settlement Depth AO 01 07 199 Spiral n 2 475 21 07 1993 15 36 H
19. Blue a Alert when reading is greater or equal to this value m Blue Alarm Level Lower Generate Blue 5 a Alert when reading is less than or equal to this value Amber Alarm Level Lower Generate Amber 9 5 Alert when reading is less than or equal to this value Red Alarm Level Lower Generate Red gt 12 75 Alert when reading is less than or egual to this value Black Alarm Level Lower Generate Bluack gt 15 5 Alert when reading is less than or 7 equal to this value Close Window Internet Protected Mode Off itm ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide 4 06 Pop up Plots By clicking on the measurement value a trend plot will be created in a new window A trend plot is a quick view mostly a few days of measurement data from a single sensor Especially when alarm levels have been reached the trend plot will show the trend of the last days Note You can set the Y scale tick levels line type and time notation in the senor configuration E ARGUS Monitoring Software Above Ground Tiltmeters Microsoft Internet Explorer provided by ITM Soil Ltd etm x http waww soLco uk greenpark index php s_cat plot_info amp s_url aW5k XqucGhwPs3hfy2F0OPXBsb3QmaV9wemdoq WNOPTMmaV9opZD0eMDksMS2hx j pni Logger Tenperaturez 14 Day trend plot 1005 10 00100 11 03 10 00 00 1203 10 00 00 15 05 10 00 00 14 03
20. HH MM SS Barometer 01 delete 007 0727 00 00 00 o15 45 1036 3 2007 07 25 06 06 00 e Temp 01 buiten delete o07 07 27 00 00 00 El 26 034 2007 07 25 06 06 00 RE EE Fee W wes save this list as Upload data file Durchsuchen It is also possible to upload data files manually by using the Upload Data File option You have to assign one sensor which is using this file After you have uploaded the file it will be processed by ARGUS itm j ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide 13 03 Edit Data Administrator Only Click the menu option Edit data in order to edit or delete measurement values You have to add a sensor and enter the time period by entering a start and end time in which your measurement values are contained Click edit to edit the value or delete to delete the measurement value from the database You will be asked to confirm before the measurement value is deleted 2009 02 07 02 00 00 2009 02 07 03 00 00 2009 02 07 04 00 00 2009 02 07 05 00 00 4700 71600 2009 02 07 06 00 00 4701 98800 4700 27300 The values mentioned above change to wiert The administrator has the option to delete the measurements currently displayed or to change the measurement values of the displayed readings all at once Edit the value enter any comments for historic reasons itm ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide 13
21. Section 3 13 See Section 3 14 See Section 3 15 See Section 3 16 See Section 3 17 See Section 3 20 See Section 3 21 10 User Manual 3 02 3 03 3 04 Argus User Guide Select Project Plot This drop down selection box holds all the project graphs that have been created by the administrator These graphs are configured to display a time period ranging from the newest latest measurement to a specified number of days ago This way the graphs will always show the latest developments in measurement results Please note ARGUS re calculates all measurement points the server not your PC from raw data to engineering units hence the creation of a graph could take some time After you selected a graph a new window will be opened in which the graph is displayed fe ARGUS Monitoring Software Green Park Station Microsoft Internet Explorer provided by ITM Soil Ltd Ele x iB http w soil co uk greenpark index php s cat plot info amp s urlzaW5kZXgucGhwP3NfY2F 0PXBsb3QmaVO9wcm9qZWNOPTImYI9pbmZvP JZBTFNEJml NB Crown Prism Lateral Displacenent 10 Ces bere Muar Displacenent nn 10 25 02 10 00 00 07 03 10 00 00 17 03 10 00 00 27 03 10 NB 103C NB 107C ase a eb javascript mouseclick document getElementByld p Internet Protected Mode Off fay R10 v The graph is an image no measurement data is transferred to your PC which you can download to
22. Section 9 Edit Project Plot Administrator Only This menu option is used for creating and editing the pre configured plots for the project These plots will become available in a drop down list box foes ite ed CCT x t KY X yt horizontal virtual plots vertical virtual plots Name Name for the plot Visible If you would like to make the plot available for viewing enable this Guest access If you would like to make the plot available for all guests enable this Plan view Assign the plot to a plan view Type Select plot type see below Action Edit the plot settings add sensors formulas copy a plot or delete a plot from the project Enter a name for the plot assign it to a plan view should this plot belong to sensors on a specific plan view it will then appear in a drop down selection box with the plan view and select a plot type Click the button Add to create the plot ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide 9 01 Type of Plot 9 01 1 t Plot The x t plot is the most commonly used plot and will display the timestamps on the x axis and the measurement results on the y axis Bm Green Prisa Lateral flap lace A D 1 Maas CANA n M n iol diy PP d 1 Ak di ye PAP uem uu d Ze elt ds CEA A LANE ve t T ut dn v T pesto bern Ae n WAT y Ah Esc Wd en ech Wi rak d l n dn j un d Many ee Mtas ipi on Na ang Mace d A NAM DR M Wu
23. a user to the project at which time the Argus server will email you your login name and password t File Edit View Insert Format Tools Actions Help Sp Reply 3 From ARGUS Monitoring Software Robot Sent Tue 09 02 2010 16 40 To support ITM Ca Subject Your Account for ARGUS Monitoring Software Hello Your Account for ARGUS Monitoring Software has been created Your login is JohnSmith Your new Password is y8nwfB4P Your project Url http www itm Itd com Please pay close attention to lowercase and uppercase characters Should you ARGUS webserver have SSL installed please use https instead of http Your ARGUS Monitoring Software Robot 2 01 2 Password The login email will include a randomly generated passsword it is advisable to change this to something easier to remember 2 01 2 1 Lost Password In case users require a new password on the login screen please use the link Password lost and enter your email address in order to receive a new password If the email address exists in the user database a new password is forwarded by email LOGIN Please enter your E Mail address and you will receive a new password by mail Note The system administrator does not have access to the passwords itm ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide 2 02 Login Access Levels ARGUS has three main levels of access Administrator User Guest The administrator has full access the user i
24. are 1 Delete The value will not be imported 2 No Alarm Email The value will be imported but will not trigger an alarm itm ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide 3 Replace The value will be replaced with the last valid value that was imported Sensor image Here you can select an image for the sensor only as long as any image has been uploaded in the gfx directory by using the file manager Add in This Image will be shown when a Sensor is placed in a plan view and you click on the sensor name to see its alarm levels For the fields data reduction delete data dependency sensor interval min retain data days max Sensor ID min Sensor ID n Sensor ID mean Sensor ID stdev Sensor ID max dep Sensor ID min dep Sensor ID please refer to the Section Data Reduction 7 01 Replacing Sensors During the course of a project it is possible that sensors get damaged and require replacement By clicking the option replace in the sensor configuration a new sensor is created with the same sensor ID as the original sensor Enter a start time for this new sensor and modify the sensor configuration settings as required calibration factors formula etc click save to confirm The end time for the old sensor will automatically be set to the start time of the new sensor In ARGUS the sensor ID is used for creating all plots and calculations The old and new sensor is used transparently hence the plots will show o
25. be different reading intervals for different sensors or points may be obscured so the map time may not apply to all sensors To differentiate between sensors whose reading is the same as the map time and sensors whose data is older the label boxes are shown with dark colours for sensors with data for the map time and light boxes for sensors with older data The alert status colour is still shown even on the lighter labels itm ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide 4 05 Sensor Pop up Window By clicking on the sensor name in a sensor box a new window will open displaying the current alert values set for the sensor It is possible to modify these values in theis window as long as access for the user is permitted amp ARGUS Monitoring Software The Olde Coffee E 3 D httpi vww itm Itd com arqus itm index php s cat alarmsettin Long Name Psi i Electrolevel 16 5 Short Name gt EL 16 Current Reading ES ias WEE Sensor Image suppress Alarm X times How many 0 readings to wait until raising alert Black Alarm Level Upper Generate Black 15 5 a Alert when reading is greater or equal hi to this value Red Alarm Level Upper Generate Red O 2 12 75 Alert when reading is greater or equal to this value Amber Alarm Level Upper Generate Amber 9 5 a Alert when reading is greater or equal S to this value Blue Alarm Level Upper Generate
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27. mM This field represents the amount of decimals to display in the plan view max is 5 if you have a multi value Sensor you can define different decimals for the positions in this case you have to comma separate the decimal settings i e 2 1 3 3 3 2 Every sensor can hold a sensor remark which can be edited by users Red Alarm Level The red warning level for increasing measurement value See section Upper Alarm Formula Amber Alarm Level The yellow warning level for increasing measurement value See section Upper Alarm Formula Amber Alarm Level The yellow warning level for decreasing measurement value See section Lower Alarm Formula Red Alarm Level The red warning level for increasing measurement value See section Lower Alarm Formula Alarm group The email group that the sensor is assigned too The alarm email is sent to this group Trend plot The amount of days to display in the trend plot Line type The line type for the trend plot Trend plot date The notation format for the time axis There is some additional information format about the format on page 22 Y scale The manual set scales for the trend plot Use the Format from value to value for example 10 15 For Multivalue Sensors Enter a new Line for every position Leave everything blank to use auto scaling Text direction X Defines the Texdirection of the X axis labels 0 will be horizontal and 90 axis vertical X axis tic
28. see 7 06 1 ARGUS Format 7 06 6 CRBased TCA This format is for data from a robotic total station connected to a Campbell data logger A typical example is 2010 03 29 00 00 00 58697 RTS1 INN 359 9819 89 62425 29 1984 2010 03 29 00 00 00 58698 RTS1 MA 12 33019 89 71398 29 82821 2010 03 29 00 00 00 58699 RTS1 NN 22 43625 89 8022 31 60803 2010 03 29 00 00 00 58700 RTS1 MME 200 131 119 4477 36 72968 2010 03 29 00 00 00 58701 RTS1 NN 357 3365 89 06472 11 69777 2010 03 29 00 00 00 58702 RTS1 MA 1 613591 88 75884 8 196835 Here the Point name is matched to a Short Name in the sensor configuration table itm ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide 7 06 7 CR Based Radio This format is for data from Soil Instruments wireless sensors 1 Generation with the receiver connected to a Campbell data logger A typical example is 2009 02 08 17 00 00 211394 MN 742 2009 02 08 17 00 00 211395 BN 9 2009 02 08 17 00 00 211396 41880 87 2009 02 08 17 00 00 211397 Y 43 2009 02 08 17 00 00 211398 41902 80 Here the Radio ID TM Data column is matched to a Serial Number in the sensor configuration table 7 06 8 Radio CSV Data This format is for data from Soil Instruments wireless sensors 1 Generation with the data stored on a radio logger A typical example is 02 06 08 06 32 NM 236 02 06 08 06 32 BB 32 02 06 08 06 33
29. sensor copy f delete Planwiew_ 02 gfx test planview O02 git W x 916453 02 91680 02 edit Add sensor copy f delete H 437538 02 437b553 02 The image size width x height of the plan view is not restricted however if you would like to display the plan view on one screen without the need for scrolling you will have to limit the image width at around 800px in order for most users to view the plan view without scrolling Enter a name for your plan view and click the button browse to locate the image file on your computer Click the button Add to send the image file to the ARGUS server When the image has been received you will be able to add sensors to the plan view If you have entered coordinates for your sensors in the sensor configuration you are also able to assign coordinates to the plan view This will allow automatic positioning of the sensors on the plan view The method is the following W your letter for the coordinate that refers to image width coordinate width left side image coordinate width right side image H your letter for the coordinate that refers to image height coordinate top height image coordinate bottom height image In the column Mirror over the you got two checkboxes X axis and Y axis With this checkboxes you can flip the coordinates vertical or horizontal 8 01 Positioning sensors and project plots on the plan view There are different methods of positioning your sensors on the planv
30. temperature sensor with ID 3 The names for the calibration factors should be unique and should consist of different characters for example a factor called M and another factor called MM is not allowed A factor called M and another factor called M1 is accepted Multi value sensors have more than one measurement value available for each timestamp In this case you refer to each value by entering for example 1 3 which would refer to the sensor with ID 1 and its 3 value Multi value sensors may contain more than one sensor formula in that case each formula is preceded by the index number of the sensor value NB when entering formulas use a new line do not write 1 in front of the formula 1 value gt output raw data for 1 value of the sensor 2 value 5 gt output raw data 5 for 2 value of the sensor Remark Take care that the calculation is enclosed by brackets when referring to negative calibration factors or negative values from other sensors Otherwise the calculation will result in an error i e a minus sign directly following a sign is not allowed Avoiding problems Import Problems are often a result of an error in the formula Take care all brackets are set correctly Take care when referencing to a multi value sensor to indicate the value to use 12 3 Do not to create circular references Do not refer a formula to its own output Take care to define the calibration factors accurately The formula w
31. the dependency sensor This will set the data reduction interval in minutes starting at 00 00 00 hours of the day If you would select an interval of 10 minutes the first data reduction will be performed from 00 00 00 to 00 10 00 hence resulting in a timestamp of 00 05 00 for the first set of data reduction Instead of deleting all data from the sensor in the database after the data reduction has taken place a specified number of days will not be deleted With this method it is possible to plot this sensor over the specified amount of days with it s real measurement values This is the sensor ID which will hold the maximum value in the data reduction interval This is the sensor ID which will hold the minimum value in the data reduction interval This is the sensor ID which will hold the number of measurements taken in the data reduction interval This is the sensor ID which will hold the mean value from the data reduction interval This is the sensor ID which will hold the standard deviation value from the data reduction interval This is the sensor ID which will hold the value of the dependency sensor measured at the maximum in the data reduction interval This is the sensor ID which will hold the value of the dependency sensor measured at the minimum in the data reduction interval Should you only be interested in for example the maximum values then you may delete the other 6 sensors that were created for data reduction purposes
32. titles scaling etc and click the button save to save this configuration Add sensor Date format Sub title Crackmeters Title X axis middle Title left Y axis Y1 Align X axis Align left Y axis Y1 middle e Title right Y axis Y2 Temperature SC Align left Y axis Y2 middle Manual scale left Y axis YI Manual scale right Y axis Y2 Direction text X axis Tick level X axis Tick level left Y axis Y1 ojal 4 Tick level right Y axis uid back The plot is now ready to use Select it from the drop down list to see the result itm ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide Section 10 Create One Time Plot Create One Time Plot Administrator and User Next to project graphs which are pre configured it is possible to create your own plots Click the menu option Create one time plot to open a new window On the top of this window you have the possibility to load the settings of another x t plot to have a starting basis especially if you want to create a plot which should have almost the same settings as an existing plot To create a plot you have to select a start time and an end time to define the time period for the plot Optionally you may select a reference reading or datum reading this reading will be subtracted from the measurement values Depending on the amount of data that will be calculated you may select to skip measurements by only calc
33. your PC by right clicking your mouse and selecting Save Image As It is possible to zoom in on the graph by left clicking your mouse once on a certain area of the graph Move your mouse to another position on the graph and click again with the left mouse button The area you have selected will form the basis for a new graph The scales are adjusted to fit the area you selected in case you would like to retain the scales in the graph click outside the axes For more information see Section 5 Select Plan View Select plans currently set up for the project Click on the drop down arrow and select the plan to view A plan view is a view of your project by using a JPG PNG or GIF image on top of which the installed sensors are displayed This image can be a copy of a CAD drawing a photo or a sketch The sensors will display their newest latest measurement result and the current alarm level For more information see Section 4 Change Password Here the user can change their password to something easier to remember than the automatically generated password The user must enter their old password and then enter and confirm the new password itm ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide 3 05 Info This shows information on the version installed as well as licence details ARGUS Monitoring Software ma INTER Version 5 0 0 0 FELS ITM Ltd Bell Lane Uckfield East Sussex TN22 1QL email supportiitm td com web http
34. 0 6 0 8 1 2 o ke o gt o gt o gt So o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o e e e c e e o o o o So o o o o o A A A Kal M Se i E co e o kel e kal e e ur o 2 o x x x gt gt 2 M MM oe M M M m m m m m m m m m m Kal A A Kal kal Kal kel Kal kal Kal 4 P ft se 9 S Li EI m 9 53 n p javascript mouseclick document getElementByld p Internet Protected Mode Off fay R10 v Please note ARGUS re calculates all measurement points the server not your PC from raw data to engineering units hence the creation of a graph could take some time After you selected a graph a new window will be opened in which the graph is displayed The graph is an image no measurement data is transferred to your PC which you can download to your PC by right clicking your mouse and selecting Save Image As It is possible to zoom in on the graph by left clicking your mouse once on a certain area of the graph Move your mouse to another position on the graph and click again with the left mouse button The area you have selected will form the basis for a new graph The scales are adjusted to fit the area you selected itm ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide 5 01 Chart Types 5 01 1 Single Chart These are plots with a single X axis time and one or two Y scales il nins Ar loa e Pert bc rio rel piei proa Ee TA Sed Lid aran bosing Safara erem Part Los creant k e
35. 01 lire 52 9 01 1 a 52 9 01 2 gg 52 9 01 3 L T 9 52 9 01 4 Horizontal 4 Vertical Virtual Hot 53 9 02 Configuration Of x t Plot EE 54 9 03 Configuration Of x t Plot EE 55 9 04 Configuration of x yt lot 56 9 05 Plot Titles and Legende eene nnne nnne ninh nnn nnne sss na rns anana aee 57 Section 10 Create One Time Plot Create One Time Plot Administrator and User 58 Section 11 Reports Administrator Only amina 61 11 01 POF REDO m M M 61 11 02 Ropo WAY DUL M dadaan aana 61 Section 12 Alarms Administrator and User sssesassssesaeaennennnaanenanannen ana cc liess nen ananne n nans hana aaa a sana aaa a aaa EE 63 12 01 Maximum and Minimum Alert Levels aana eaaa nenen aana aane aana e anae anan aana anana ana aana eaaa nean a anana naen e eee 63 12 02 ATE e ee TEE 64 Section 13 Data Administrator and User 111 ee eel iieeee eee ieeeeecnu einen emen nna a an snas aaa a n seas asas n aaa ans as 66 13 01 Download Data Administrator and User 66 13 02 Input Manual Data Administrator Only 67 13 03 Edt RER elei E ere ONIY escasean tol obreras coincido 68 13 04 Archive Backup Administrator Only
36. 03 25 14 00 02 2010 03 25 16 00 02 2010 03 25 17 00 02 oso m Done Intemet Protected Mode Off O O O o O O e O O O O o o o O O o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o gt mm T m m bi bi m mm Se m m m m m mm mm m m mm uo e oo 2 Kal e o c uo e ru gt Val e ba gt Val e bal gt Val N gt Kal A o o o o Kal A o o A o gt A A o o A o o o 2 o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o gt A A A T A A A A A A m A A A T A A A n eet med nd peni pet Z M ga Ce be EN e kin xf xf n HM E p Tet e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e nm o o o o o o o o o o o o o o gt o o o o o o gt a As M Tuc Z be be he Pi T TNO a 2 T Hs o das ban pS Be A Dal Dal Dal wo VD VD E rm rm rm ce ceo ce ceo e e e e c o gt N N ut e e N N e e e e e e e CH N N e e e e bai T 4 ME F ei Fal Internet Protected Mode Off fa y 100 y ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide 5 03 Zooming in The charts produced allow the user to zoom in on an area to give a better understanding on events in the data This is done by clicking the left mouse button down and dragging a window around the area to zoom in on To view an area on a chart in greater detail the user can zoom in simply by using the mouse to draw a window around the area to view Simply position the mouse in the top left corner of the area to enlarge and left click once
37. 04 Archive Backup Administrator Only In order to create backups archives with measurement data ARGUS has the option to download all raw measurement values from the database You have to select the period for which you would like to archive the data by entering a start and end time and optionally you may select to delete data from this period in the database Start time possible start time 2009 01 30 18 30 00 End time possible end time 2009 11 27 12 00 00 amp Archive sensors Archive alarms Without sensor selection all sensors wil be archived Add sensor Delete measurements after creating archive archive Import archive Browse Info Depending on file size the archive or backup operation could take a few minutes When the creation of the archive has been completed you will be able to download the file Take care not to create archives that are too large in size a recommendable size is an archive of lt 2MB In case the archived measurement data is needed again it is possible to import a old archive into the database Individual sensors can be archived by typing a sensor range into the input field or selecting a Sensor ID by using the Add sensor link This is especially useful when you have a sensor with a high measurement frequency and you would like to archive only the data from this sensor In the same way it is also possible to archive and delete the alarms from the database Remark Th
38. 2 over the last x amount of days displaying every x measurement and limiting the table size to x amount of rows The table formatting options allows you to enter the amount of sensors for each table Example 2 1 3 would display a 2 sensor table a 1 sensor table and a 3 sensor table Sensor remarks Displays the sensor remarks from the selected sensors Save your report settings when you are completed and select the preview option to create a PDF report Depending on the amount of data that has to be calculated this could take some time itm ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide Section 12 A Alarms Administrator and User Each sensor being monitored can have Blue Amber Red and Black alert levels set The levels can be different for every sensor or the same levels can be used for groups of sensors 12 01 Maximum and Minimum Alert Levels Typically the alert level applies to both a positive and a negative value When an alert level of 2mm is used this applies to changes greater than 2mm and less than 2mm This is because most sensors are displaying changes since a datum For some sensors however different max and min levels are required For example the battery voltage an alert is required if the voltage drops below 12volts If an alert level of 12 was used the battery would be permanently in alert until the voltage dropped below 12volts In this case Argus needs to use max and min alert levels In the exa
39. 2 4 Remarks On all plots the user can add remarks for example to explain movement seen ARGUS Monitoring Software De rybrien Windfarm Microsoft Internet Explorer provided by ITM Soil Ltd ell S d http www itm Itd com argus itm index php s cat plot info amp s ug aW5kZXgucGhwP3NfY2F PXBsb QmaV9wcm9qZWNOPTgmaV9pZDOxMT g2LDEm Pz 83 5 Day trend plot 25 03 10 18 00 26 03 10 00 00 26 03 10 06 00 26 03 10 12 00 26 03 10 18 00 27 03 10 00 00 27 03 10 06 00 27 0310 12 00 28 03 10 00 00 28 03 10 06 00 28 03 10 12 00 28 03 10 18 00 29 03 10 00 00 29 03 10 06 00 29 03 10 12 00 29 03 10 18 00 30 03 10 00 00 30 03 10 06 00 30 03 10 12 00 c e S uo e o Kal o o 5 9 o o M eS Dal io e N WDE Saale x Internet Protected Mode Off itm ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide 5 02 5 Tabular Data This option allows the user to view the plotted data in a tabular format this can be copied and then pasted into a spreadsheet for further evaluation e ARGUS Monitoring Software Derrybricn Windfarm Microsoft Internet Explorer provided by IT eo I Y ejl SS htto www itm Itd com argr s itm index php s cat plot view value amp i projectz8 amp s filez Derrybrien Windfarm h5 EWNOPTgmaV9pZDOxMT32LDEmr A Time stamp 2010 03 25 08 00 03 0 7937 2010 03 25 no nn n2 0 7937 2010 03 25 10 00 03 0 7954 2010 03 25 11 00 03 0 7954 2010 03 25 12 00 02 2010
40. 7 50H Will refer to sensor with ID 7 the 50 value Once you have configured multi value sensors these sensors will be listed in the sensor list for selecting a sensor to plot or to download as a single sensor with a separate list box containing the number of the component you want to select Select 1 for the first measurement value 2 for the second measurement value etc For VW instruments it might be useful to use the multi value function to store both frequency and temperature A pow value 2 B value C 1 2 21 3 0 059984 Conversion from Hz to Kpa temperature correction value Temperature is stored as the 2 value for this sensor Remark Once you created a multi value sensor you should not try to reduce it to a single value sensor again In any plan view you would still see it as a multi value sensor If a sensor has once several positions and then only one it s a different sensor so you should also create it as a new sensor itm ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide Section 8 Edit Plan Views Administrator Only The plan views for the project should be based on JPG or PNG image files For photos or very colourful images the JPG file will most likely be smallest in size The PNG file format is very well suited for CAD drawings and images with few colours and detail Check which file size will be the smallest and use this for your plan view ee perte Planview 011 gfx test planview 01 git edit Add
41. Argus User Guide itm ITM LIMITED Document Title ARGUS version 5 USER MANUAL Document prepared by ITM Limited Man Av5 2 31 03 2010 Draft David Farnham Manual Revision Date Status Originator No itm ITM Limited Sheridan Elliott Checked Authorised for Issue 1 User Manual Argus User Guide Contents Section 1 Introduction naci aunke aa uh d da a 5 Section 27 la oU 6 2 01 Kee T PM 6 2 01 1 Ree nn a 7 2 01 2 O A 7 SA ROS ele E 7 2 02 L gM CCC SS UCI OPPETO iii ELLE 8 Section Menu TEE 9 3 01 EE ale 9 3 02 A 11 3 03 Select Plan View 11 3 04 EE A A 11 3 05 Tat WEEN 12 3 06 LOGOUL a 12 Seccion AS Plan VIEWS EEN 13 4 01 tadas 13 4 01 1 MA Sr decos 13 4 01 2 Cross Sections iii desa 13 4 01 3 FOU OVI Sonne 13 4 02 Map TOO IAN sing steric TREE Um 14 4 02 1 Kar Ning REL PIE EE an en Naane ain 14 4 02 2 Ston SSA 14 4 02 3 Recaculate Measurements ccccecececccccacececccueuauacauaeauauaeneneneneneneuenenenenenenenenenenenenenenenenenenenenseanaeas 14 4 03 Sensor LOCATIONS ii a ia EEN daa 14 4 03 1 Sensor BOX SS ci A is daa 14 4 03 2 Sensor Mark Sr A cie 17 4 04 Reise Wine AA PI OU aana nana vinartierdunasdleriug wierd eauaiverianeriaauuiadta
42. GhwP3NfY2F PXBsb3QmaV9wcm9qZWNOPTgmYI9pbmZvPUZBTFNF J press send we will now plot aan ada this sensor from 30 01 2005 to 30 03 2010 plot right 5 4 a 2 t o 4 6 8 10 S d S S oH S S Po S P ye S S S S S 3 S P BP B foe 4 68118 Ci Del Start time End time n 4 m p javascript mouseclick document getElementByld p o Internet Protected Mode Off fa v 100 vv im o ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide 5 02 2 Fixed Auto Scale This toggles between a fixed scale for the graph and automatic scaling where the graphs displacement axis range is from the minimum value to the maximum value for data in the time range specified ARGUS Monitoring Software Derrybrien Windfarm Microsoft Internet Explorer provided by ITM Soil Ltd etj x http www itm Itd com argus itm index php s cat plot info amp s urlzaW5kZXgucGhwP3NfY2F0PXBsb3QmaV9wcm9qZWNOPT gmaV9pZDOxMT g2LDErr Pz 83 5 Day trend plot E 1 0 5 0 0 5 1 1 5 S S 2 c 7 Fixed Scale 3 3 5 4 4 5 5 o o o o o o o o o 2 o ke o o o 2 o o o o o o 2 2 2 v 2 z E 2 2 m CES 2 Er ise T Ka e bal o wo N ba e Ka N bai e Kal e ba o Kal N bai e p e P o A A o 2 A A So o Kal A o o A A So o Kal A o o A o o o o o o e o e o o o o o o o o o o o o o xi xi xi x x x x x x xi xi x xi xi xi x xi x x x xi xi M hs Wi n e e as a Wi a M e as e Ma e e e e e e e e e e e e e
43. Internet connection there is no PC software to install or licenses to pay you are able to use ARGUS on any computer with Internet access ARGUS is an open system it is based on a reliable open source operating system webserver database and programming language and it s design will allow you to import data from any source All ARGUS needs is a simple ASCII file with timestamps and numeric data Ditm ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide Section 2 Using Argus 2 01 Login In order to access the ARGUS server you need to know the URL web page name or the IP address of the server which is running ARGUS Monitoring Software Enter this IP address or domain name in your web browser E ARGUS Monitoring Software Microsoft Internet Explorer provided by ITM Soil Ltd QC K http www itm Itd com arqus demo X Note For secured web servers you have to enter https instead of http You will be presented with the login screen which requires you to enter your name password and preferred language If you are a registered user enter your name password and select the language in which you would like to work Press the button login to start Password lost Unregistered users have to contact the administrator to grant them access to a project and provide them with a username Ditm ts ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide 2 01 1 Username The system administrator will add you as
44. JPG or GIF The Company Logo appears above the left menu bar and must be no larger than 155x155 pixels The project logo is displayed on logging in in the main area of the screen and this should be no larger than 400x300 pixels The time zone for the monitoring relative to the server time can be set By default the admin user is automatically added to the new database the user can then select any previously created users from the list shown itm ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide Once all done press the Aca button to create the new project New Site Company Logo 155 pixels x 155 pixels C MTM Logo gif B Project Logo 400 pixels x 300 pixels C software logo g i Time zone Servertime 24 Mar 2010 07 43 Servertime 0 00 e Users with access to this project A User admin John Smith Paul Smith As long as all details correct the new project is created Project created continue Once you press continue you are now in the new project and can begin configuration ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide 6 02 Edit Project In this menu option you are able to edit an existing project Company Logo 155 pixels x 155 pixels Project Logo 400 pixels x 300 pixels Time zone Servertime 23 Mar 2010 15 21 Servertime 0 e 00 e with access to this project Save Delete project The following settings are possible Change the project name Select a new
45. RFORMANCE OR RESULTS YOU MAY OBTAIN BY USING THE SOFTWARE OR DOCUMENTATION INTERFELS GMBH AND ITS SUPPLIERS MAKE NO WARRANTIES EXPRESS OR IMPLIED AS TO NONINFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE IN NO EVENT WILL INTERFELS GMBH OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY CONSEQUENTIAL INCIDENTAL OR SPECIAL DAMAGES INCLUDING ANY LOST PROFITS OR LOST SAVINGS EVEN IF AN INTERFELS GMBH REPRESENTATIVE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES OR FOR ANY CLAIM BY ANY THIRD PARTY Argus Monitoring Software is protected by copyright laws and international copyright treaties as well as other intellectual property laws and treaties Interfels GmbH reserves all rights not expressly granted in this EULA Effective 1 December 2005 Interfels GmbH Am Bahndamm 1 48455 Bad Bentheim Germany ITM Limited User Manual
46. SR18 IN2 T a 00 00 00 OI ONG Co Co OT Co Cn Po Edit Add Copy Paste Delete Inclinometer The inclinometer installation for which the installation plot has to be created Plot Type The plot type which has to be created Add new survey Method Plot from bottom or plot from top Depths The total amount of depths in the survey measuring points Constant The instrument constant 25000 for the metric DigiTilt sensor 20000 for English Sensor length The length of the sensor to calculate the displacement Plot Name The name for the new plot You are able to edit and modify this plot using the normal plot edit menu Once the first plot type is created it is relatively straightforward to copy the plot and create other version like incremental displacement etc ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide A 3 2 Method of data import in ARGUS Data from inclinometers is imported in ARGUS as data from a multi value sensor in the following format 1 value Deepest depth 2 value A axis value 3 value B axis value 4 value Next depth 5 value A axis value 6 value B axis value 7 value Next depth etc The A and B axis values are calculated during survey import based on AO A180 2 BO B180 2 The depths are retrieved from the survey file itm i
47. a row of electrolevels or a profile through a series of manual survey points e IM Bl MATANG Westen Sein Deren Pat usos gt Mages bert Epione praade byy TOM Sod Ld reem Park erem Fark Escalator BHI B ai BO 0 ante Irclir cirala b 4 i m iit i 4 i H n A a di t Po SS eee i I i a 1 1 A gt p f A s A re a Ki A A El t t E WW i i de H y f rm LJ Lrploe eet pen o _ Dekan metara ei 11 a T 1 Jer A AO Cah ran eX A nono jodo dep Pepe copo pa n i tI e HITLER a GET ege i Gore ir kramani Penisciad bbcode CH Ke SA bd rt TATA be dos orav el karana i7 p ir meri Proteci d Minde OH k i 4 5 02 Chart Icons Below a profile plot is a row of icons these are used to change various settings on the chart and to save and print the plot Lle eE Li EI JE es a e Browse through the data by skipping a Y time period forward or backward Change Time Range Create a smaller or larger image Toggle between chosen fixed scale and auto scaling Auto scaling uses the highest and lowest values plotted for the Y axis Temporary Datum Use the first value plotted as a temporary datum Write remarks for the plot and sensors displayed in the graph Save the graph data to your computer clicking the disk symbol This data is tab separated Importing into Excel is possible by selecting the A column in Excel and select the menu Data option gt T
48. apters with 3 pre defined graphs from the project in total each report can have 12 pre defined graphs It is possible depending on the layout amount of text and size of the graphs in each Chapter that a Chapter consists of multiple pages as the report has an automatic page break feature that will insert a new page when required A page may consist of 4 header lines which will be centred on top of the page In these header lines you could write for example project specific information like location project site etc In addition to the header lines you have the possibility to write up to 4 remarks which are text fields situated on top of the page and in between pre defined graphs or images and on the bottom of the page These text fields can hold entire pages of text with the possibility to use basic HTML text formatting styles supported are lt b gt bold lt gt itm ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide lt i gt talic lt i gt and lt u gt underline lt u gt and any combinations of these 3 formatting styles In addition you may write remark in this text field in order to insert the remark belonging to the plot that is selected A report may also comprise up to three types of tables with an optional text field to write some remarks Alarm table Displays the alarms from the project over the last x amount of days Measurement values table Displays the sensor values from selected sensors use sensor ID s example 2 or 42
49. automatically assigned to a new sensor If you run multiple projects from one ARGUS server the numbers will be different in every project i e project 2 could start with sensor id 44 instead of sensor id 1 This id number is important as you can refer to it from sensor formulas and pre defined graphs by using the following notation 1 which would refer to the sensor with id 1 This is the name assigned to the sensor Use a good long description to describe the sensor Name short This is the short name assigned to the sensor Use a short and UNIQUE description This is the serial number from the sensor optional This field is left blank unless you replace a sensor with the option replace See Replacing Sensors M This field is left blank unless you replace a sensor with the option replace See Replacing Sensors F e West Wall or Cellar etc Coordinates The XYX coordinates of the sensor Write 1 coordinate per line use enter for a new line Example X 345332 30 Y 234455 04 Z 4535 44 Calibration factors This field holds one or multiple calibration factors Enter your factors by using the following format A24 357 and press the button lt enter gt to go to the next line in order to enter another factor Always use capital large letters ABC etc Each factor should have a unique letter It is not allowed to use A and AA Use A1 and A2 instead This field holds the sensor formula See section Se
50. cess to a user to multiple projects but with different privileges you will need to create a different login name for each project Once the user changes his password he will have the same password for every project but with a different username You can also disable the possibility to change the password for all guests accounts for demo projects for example by a setting in the variable file on your server projectfolder var variablen x x x php 14 02 Edit Email Groups The email group is used to send alarm warnings or PDF reports to one or multiple users Multiple email addresses can be entered and it is possible to activate and deactivate the email service for each person individually Group name email addresses Alarm Group edit delete a usera my work email com ctiv deactivate support amp itm td com ctive deactivate I Info write multiple email addresses using enter for a new line 14 03 Change Password It is possible to change your own password generated by ARGUS Monitoring Software by clicking the menu option change password and entering your old password and the new password you would like to use Take care to use a password which is not easily guessed by others i e use random numbers and letters Once changed the user can continue using Argus there is no need to logout and back in itm ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide 14 04 Check Import This option will verify if t
51. configuration and or use masquerading Always export the sensor configuration and than import the edited configuration 85 User Manual Zoom in on plot shows flat lines FTP to ARGUS server fails Plots are not shown time out Timestamps in planviews are in the past or in the future Getting an error message about using an apostrophe or other special characters when trying to save an pdf plot itm ITM Limited Argus User Guide Too much detail in Zoom Presentation of values lt 1 Check network configuration Check firewall settings on server pc Proxy server Imported broken incomplete ASCII file with data This signs causes problems in some SQL Queries Zoom out Increase sensor engineering unit multiply by 1000 gt for example report in mm instead of m Contact your server administrator most likely a firewall setting Ask system admin to increase time out value for http requests on the proxy server Delete data from the database that was affected by this import use edit manual data or archive backup Reset the timestamps for the planviews that were affected to a date of the first dataset being imported Import the corrected ASCII file again edit the php ini file on your server and check the variable magic_quotes_gpc this should be set to on 86 User Manual Argus User Guide Appendix C End User License Agreement By Using ARGUS you have to accept the followi
52. create their own sensors in the database without granting them the rights of administrator This could be useful for specific data analysis functions The created virtual sensors will be saved permanently in the project and will become available for all other functions The administrator will be able to add this sensor to the sensor pool with real sensors by removing the name virtual from the configuration field location These sensors can only be sensors of the calculated type Normally a sensor will have data in the database and when calculations are being made the raw data is retrieved from the database and calculated to engineering units In ARGUS it is possible to configure sensors that do not have data in the database This would be interesting for example if you would like to create two plots of a piezometer one with and one without barometric and temperature correction In this case you would configure the following two sensors Formula for real sensor with ID 10 uncorrected Formula for calculated sensor with ID 11 corrected 0 059984 A pow value 2 B value C 1 O0 1 0 1 1013 0 1 3 21 3 Note the 10 at the beginning of the formula for sensor 11 The way ARGUS works is that it will recognize that this is a calculated sensor without data in the database It will select the timestamps the measurement interval from the sensor with ID 10 and assign calculated values to the timestamps by using the formula
53. d Microsoft Excel Doeldok 200405613 135512 download data Read Only Es File Edit View Insert Format Tools Data Window Help Acrobat Osta 9aAr maso a E fe AZ ld Remark The creation of a data file could take some time which depends on the amount of data in the database the amount of data that has to be calculated and the amount of users working with the server at the same time itm ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide 13 02 Input Manual Data Administrator Only Click the menu option Input manual Data in order to manually enter measurement values You have to add a sensor you can also add different sensors or to choose a list of sensors you saved someday and you have to enter a timestamp for the measurement s Next to the input field you will also see the last imported data for this sensor so you are able to directly verify your input Click the button Add to add the measurement s to the database If you want to use the same list of sensors again you can save this list under a specific name by activating the checkbox yes save this list as and entering a filename You will be asked to confirm before the new measurement value s is are accepted In this section you can also upload a data file manually by using the Upload data file function Add sensor yes save this list as Select sensor Upload data file Please note ARGUS uses the ISO following format for entering timestamps YYYY MM DD
54. e alarm warning The system is set to send out a maximum of 255 emails per hour Once this limit is exceeded one of the project users has to confirm an alarm before any new alarms are issued by email This is a safety precaution to prevent a flood of emails You can change the Alarm limit in the Check Import section see also Chapter 12 for this purpose If you would like to receive an SMS message it is possible with most mobile phone providers to receive an email address with your mobile phone i e 123456 provider com This will enable you to receive the alarm message as an SMS ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide By clicking the Link unconfirmed the alarm confirmation window will pop up Meetount 018002 Mame short 018002 Time 2006 02 13 18 20 44 Alarm level Low 2 Alarmvalue 10 unconfirmed confirmed Bad weather caused this alarm Close Window In the alarm window you can click the status to enter a remark with the alarm and select the confirmed option to confirm this alarm By confirming an alarm your name will be logged with the alarm remark A new alarm will only be issued when the sensor changes from alarm level The menu option plan view alarms will open an alarm window that will display only alarms belonging to sensors currently listed in the selected plan view You can delete alarms from the database using the archive backup menu option itm ITM Li
55. e more data that resides in the database the longer it will take to create plots or downloads In case you feel the system gets too slow start creating archives of the data and delete this data from the database A good practice is to create weekly or monthly reports and weekly or monthly downloads of sensor data which can be imported into a spreadsheet programme should further analysis be required and delete the data permanently from the database itm ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide Section 14 Users Administrator Only 14 01 Edit Users This menu option allows you to add edit or delete project users The users listed here are all users with access to the ARGUS Monitoring Software Name a o email 47 Privilege 4 7 Status 47 A User user itr ltd com Guest o Offline deactivate account edit adjust menu list delete admin supporti amp itm td com Administrator Ho Online 2010 03 23 17 35 edit adjust menu list delete John Smith supporti amp gitm td com Guest o Offline deactivate account edit adjust menu list delete Paul Smith Offline jm TT Click edit to change the settings The administrator has full access the user is able to work with the software set and confirm alarms enter and edit manual data and download data from the database A guest is only able to view data and not modify data in any way PDA users will have limited ARGUS functionality no images small graphs and is
56. enter comma separated multiple positions in this field Example 1 4 7 would assign the 1 4 and 7 value in the ASCII file to the sensor 7 06 1 ARGUS Format This is a general file format with a semicolon separator in the following syntax datum time ms value1 value2 etc Example 09 06 2004709230700 07 10193 3070 1741567 3040 05 12 57 2891 15 EE 3047 67 LL DE 3070 52 12 0 2907 671 2 3 2891 1 12 6 10 06 2004 12 10 00 0 1020 0 3068 8 11 5 3045 5 12 6 2891 1 12 5 3047 7 11 0 3068 5 12 0 2891 1 rae 49 15 06 2004 08 40 00 0 1021 4 3063 7 11 2 3032 1 12 5 2883 4 12 5 3045 3 11 1 3058 5 11 9 2984 7 1 2 3 2883 4712 5 Due to the fact that ARGUS expects fixed positions for every sensor in the ASCII files it is not allowed to skip measurement values In the case wherea specific sensor does not have a measurement value available leave the value blank and continue with the semicolon separator The value 0 zero is a valid measurement result in ARGUS The date format has to be specified for this ASCII file examples DD MM YYYY or MM DD YYYY or YYYY MM DD always use capitals The time format may include a timestamp for milliseconds and is based on HH MM SS sss The decimal notation should be a point and not a comma check with your system administrator 7 06 2 ASCII Export 2 Format ARGUS is able to create ASCII export files of the data in its database This can be used to import data into a 3 pa
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58. et the most recent timestamp of the current import and go three days back from this time and only calculate the alarms for the values which are within this time period itm ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide Appendix A Add Ins Depending on your licence various add ins can be accessed A 1 Logbook The logbook addin allows ARGUS users to interactively write project specific comments and information and optionally include photos to a log It is possible for other users to comment on each entry in the logbook Mew entry 2006 09 13 14 04 17 admin testssd This is an example for a logbook entry Last wodivted 2006 09 19 17 13 13 v admin 1 comment Add photo Edit entry Delete entry 2006 09 04 16 37 34 admin Bl tterfunktin funktioniert The increx softuare Last modine 2006 09 19 47 19 09 hy admin 1 comment Add photo Edit entry Delete entry Remark It is also possible to include the logbook entries in an automated PDF report itm ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide A 2 Filemanager The filemanager allows ARGUS users to share documents and files on the ARGUS server The options include the creation of new directories folders adding new documents files and downloading documents it is possible to select multiple documents and download them as a zip file Users with administrator and user privileges are able to restrict guests from accessing certain directories
59. exports can run at the same time At the top of the page you can see if a lock file exists and how many minutes the ascii 2 export is already running You can also delete the lock file manually in case the ascii 2 export has not finished successfully The data in the ASCII file will contain the following information per line Time sensor short name unit x y z location remark alarm1 alarm2 alarm3 alarm4 date of datumreading value s of datumreading last measurement value s Time acc to ISO YYYY MM DD HH MM SS time stamp from last measured value of the sensor Sensor short name Sensor short name text from the sensor configuration Unit mm Kpa C etc text from the sensor configuration XNIZ The X Y Z co ordinates of the sensor number Location MQ1 MQ3 etc text from the sensor configuration Remark Sensor remark text from the sensor configuration itm ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide Alarm1 High1 Alarm value for sensor yellow alarm from the sensor configuration Alarm2 High2 Alarm value for sensor red alarm from the sensor configuration Alarm3 Low1 Alarm value for sensor yellow alarm from the sensor configuration Alarm4 Low 2 Alarm value for sensor red alarm from the sensor configuration Date of datum reading Time stamp ISO from datum reading of the sensor Value of datum reading Calculated value for datum reading A single value or mult
60. expression following the sign In this example it will use the calculated output from the sensor with ID 10 and subtract the barometric correction and temperature correction Other useful features are adding or subtracting sensor results averaging sensor results etc For example if you would install 4 strain gauges in a pile or on a strut you would like to know the average calculated load of all sensors In that case you would create a calculated sensor 1 1 2 0 4 4 A typical formula for a piezometer could be 1 A pow 1 2 B 1 C 2 1013 0 1 3 21 3 0 059984 Where calibration factors are B 0 050636 C 1441 7 1 is the reference to the VW sensor HZ reading with ID 1 2 is the barometric sensor with ID 2 3 is the reference to the temperature sensor with ID 3 A 0 0001 7296 Remark When adding take care that the calculation is enclosed by brackets when referring to negative calibration factors or values from other sensors Otherwise the calculation will result in an error i e a minus sign directly following a sign is not allowed Mathematical expression allowed in the sensor formula abs Absolute value abs mixed number acos Arc cosine acos float arg acosh Inverse hyperbolic cosine acosh float arg asin Arc sine asin float arg asinh Inverse hyperbolic sine asinh float arg atan2 arc tangent of two variables atan2 float y float x atan Arc tangent atan float arg atanh Inverse hy
61. ext to Columns View the data in tabular format It can then be copied into Excel Print the shown graph Close the graph window Did gw gt En 88 ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide 5 02 1 Changing Time Range On all trend charts the default time range is specified in the sensor configuration table this is a set number of days from the time of the last data Clicking on this icon displays two date boxes at the bottom of the chart allowing the user to change the plotted time range ARGUS Monitoring Software Derrybrien Windfarm Microsoft Internet Explorer provided by ITM Soil Ltd lela x T In the plot to the right the e www itm Itd com argus itm index php s cat plot info amp s urlzaW5kZXgucGhwP3NfY2F0PXBsb3QmaV9wcm9qZWNOPTgmYI9pbmZvPUZBTFNF default time range is two EMEND months from the last data time In the plot the last data is 30 03 2010 so the chart starts at 30 01 2010 The time period currently displayed is displayed in the Start and End Time boxes S 4 P fe e 68118 Ci Del Start time End time x 4 m 4 i javascript mouseclick document getElementByld p Internet Protected Mode Off fa y R10 e If we ch ange the start time for ARGUS Monitoring Software Derrybrien Windfarm Microsoft Internet Explorer provided by ITM Soil Ltd lela x T this plot to 30 01 2005 and rym www itm Itd com argus itm index php s cat plot info amp s url aWSkZXguc
62. field and refer to the sensors in the project by the sensor ID In order to simplify the chain calculation method you may enter d itm ITM Limited User Manual 9 04 Argus User Guide referrals to the co ordinates x0 x1 Example for co ordinate x2 2 X0 which will obtain the measurement from the sensor with ID 2 at the given timestamp and add the result from the formula defined for co ordinate XO Formula for y Same functionality as Formula for x Crossing X Y The crossing of the X axis with the Y axis standard at 0 00 Finally you can set your general plot preferences titles scaling etc and click the button save to save this configuration The plot is now ready to use Select it from the drop down list to see the result Configuration of x yt Plot The X yt plot is a plot whereby sensors are plotted against the result of another sensor in order to observe the relation between sensors Therefore one sensor has to be assigned to the X axis and the other sensors are plotted against these results As there is no time relation between such results this type of plot is usually plotted with marks dots so no lines are connecting the measurement points This plot can be used for example to determine the relation of temperature effects on measurement results or a relation between wind speed and wind direction Another use would be to plot measurement results of sensors against an X axis which consists of the TBM tunnel ring
63. he automatic ASCII file import is still running every minute new ASCII files are imported When it is in the process of importing data it will display the minutes that have passed since the import started ASCII import status OK Last imported time stamp 2009 11 27 12 00 00 Datasets 218 655 Recalculate statistics Upload Path var wwwyjhtml itmltd argus demo Change plan view time stamp When you are convinced that the import should have been completed already you may manually delete the lock file in order to restart the import of ASCII files A lock file indicates that during the import an error has occurred This could be due to the ASCII file format or insufficient memory configuration of the server Check your ASCII files and contact your server administrator in order to solve the problem The check import function will also display the most recent timestamp that has been processed in the project and the amount of datasets in the project measurement values The recalculate statistics option will refresh the statistics of possible start and end time and total amount of datasets in the database This should be applied after deleting data from the database Upload Path will show you which upload path you ve configured This is the path that you have to extend in the sensor configuration in the column ASCII file The link View log file will be shown if the log function is active This can only be acti
64. ide Automatically by choosing add in tabular format and entering the sensor id s you would like to position in the plan view This is not based on sensor coordinates The sensors will be positioned in a table format 8 01 1 Positioning project plots on the planviews To position a project plot on the plan view you just have to select a plot from the drop down selectionbox and whether you want to add it as a box in which the name of the plot is displayed or as a mark which is a small plot icon that will only show the plot name when you point your mouse over it 8 01 2 Editing sensor and plot positions on the plan view After you have positioned the sensors and or plots on the plan view it is possible to change the following settings X coordinate of sensor This is based on pixels px Y coordinate of sensor This is based on pixels px Sensor Plot appearance box or mark Delete a sensor plot by removing the X and Y coordinate The pixel based coordinates are based on a system where 0 0 refers to the top left corner of the image In order to determine the pixel positions on your image you could use a programme like Windows Paint where the coordinates are shown in the bottom right corner of the programme It is also possible to remove sensors or plots on the plan view by clicking on the name of the sensor in the plan view itm ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide
65. iew Manually by clicking Add sensor and selecting the ada sensor to plan view Add sensor Add project plot to plan view 15 sensor that you would like to add to the plan view Aid enar Click once with your left mouse button on the plan NUS T sensor box position view to position the sensor The option sensor box or sensor mark allows you to select either a sensor box in which the sensor name and value are displayed on the screen or a sensor mark which is a small box a ege Position sensors value when you point your mouse over the mark This is useful when displaying many sensors on a singl e Add sensors based on plan view amp sensor coordinates box t Add sensors based on plan view amp sensor coordinates mark screen f add in tabular format Automatically based on the plan view coordinates you entered when adding the plan view image and based on the sensor coordinates in your sensor configuration The positions of the sensors in the plan view are calculated using the coordinate information you entered All sensors in the database that have coordinates that fall into the range of the plan view are positioned You can select either sensor box or sensor mark After the sensors have been positioned it is possible to modify positions and sensor box mark type You can also limit the range of sensor id s which should be considered for example 12 25 itm ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Gu
66. ilar to formula notation The high alarms are alarms for an upward trend the low alarms are alarms for a downward trend If you would have a piezometer that measures water level height and you want a warning at 10 meters and an alarm at 12 meters you enter the value 10 in the high1 or high min alarm and the value 12 in the high2 high max alarm If you also need a warning when the water level drops beneath 8 meters and an alarm when it drops below 6 meters you enter the value 8 in the low1 low min alarm and the value 6 in the low2 low max alarm field 7 05 1 Rate Of Change Alarm In the Alarm Formula you can also set a RateOfChange Alarm The RateOfChange Alarm represents a maximum increase or decrease per hour that a value of a sensor may have To define a RateOfChange Alarm write the maximum increase decrease per hour between two signs For example if you need a warning when a piezometer that measures water height increases more than 2 mtr per hour enter 2 at the high1 high min alarm field Decreasing values are entered in the low alarm fields itm ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide 7 06 ASCII files position in ASCII ARGUS supports the import of ASCII files with measurement data A sensor position is always a fixed position in the ASCII file Position number one 1 is the first measurement value in the ASCII file after the date and time fields For multi value sensors you may
67. ill be automatically checked for the most frequent mistakes when you save it itm 7 ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide 7 03 General functions In the action column of each sensor you find several links to make actions EM i T c E epiace nfo delete 2799 Electrolevel 1 5808 edit replace info delete edit replace info 2800 Electrolevel 2 5806 A O Electrolevel 2 5806 edit replace info Calibration factors b0 5606 34316410583 b1 5466 16362543019 b2 2138 05651107996 b3 418 658398800835 b4 41 004612692708 Formula b5 pow value 5 b4 pow value 4 b3 pow value 3 b2 pow value 2 b1 value b0 datum reading Datum reading 2009 02 11 11 00 00 ASCII file upload 2000 Coopers Hill tblIRawData dat Data location in ASCII file 6 Import filter Campbell Table Based edit replace info delete 2803 Crackmeter 2 030297 A Page 1 Dou Dom Export sensor data Es Es Import sensor data import calibration factors Find and replace create new sensor Find sensor name OE edit to change the sensor settings replace see section 7 02 above info By clicking on the info link a new window will open where you can edit the sensor settings when moving your mouse over the info link a tooltip will pop up which shows you the most important information of the sensor delete will delete the current sensor Add Here you can add a new sensor
68. intended for working with ARGUS on small mobile devices The very first admin of the ARGUS software has also a privilege he will always have access to all projects As soon as a new user has been added he will receive an email with his login name and password when using an extern email address it is necessary that an email server is available contact your server administrator You also have the possibility to remotely disconnect users and disable there login by clicking deactivate account You will see a new link therefore in the action column With the column status you can see if and since what time a user is online By clicking the adjust menu list link a window will pop up where you can additionally disable individual menu options for the different users user amp itm td com User o deactivate account edit adjust menu list delete x Guest e A W i ilii Select project Select project plot Mew project lo pl Remark By adjusting a menu list you will always see all possible menu links with checkboxes no matter whether you adjusting the list for an administrator or for a user but you can always only decrease itm ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide the menu points for any user This means even if at a guest login checkboxes are checked which contains menus a guest user can normally not see he still will not be able to see them Please note If you would like to provide ac
69. ion is not saved When you close the plot configuration window all settings will be lost ARGUS uses the ISO format for entering timestamps YYYY MM DD HH MM SS Additional Note You can set a maximum time limit for showing plots in the variable file on your server Remark Know how many measurement results you are about to calculate as a rough rule of thumb calculating 500 measurement points for a graph is more than sufficient a 1000px width computer screen cannot display more measurement points without overwriting already existing points This feature will help you to reduce the amount of calculations required to plot a graph and will speed up the entire process itm i ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide Section 11 Reports Administrator Only 11 01 PDF Reports In ARGUS it is possible to define reports which will be emailed in PDF format to a user or group of users in a daily weekly or monthly interval The report itself consists of measurement data from the project in the form of pre configured graphs tables with data alarms etc See also Chapter 10 to edit user and users email edit edit definition send it now copy delete Manuel Report Enabled testmals 2006 09 08 13 57 Monthly manual Report Name This will define the filename for the PDF report Status Enable or disable the report E mail Group The email group with user s that will receive the PDF report Start time The start date and
70. iple values multi value sensors Last measurement values The calculated value for the sensor A single value or multiple values multi value sensors All positions in one line of information are fixed If for a certain field no information is available nothing will be written at this position and the next character will be the semicolon separator Text fields are exported with quotes Values are written in the file using a point as decimal separator A thousands separator is not used A 4 5 Multi value sensors In ARGUS a sensor can be configured to have multiple values For example a geodetic monitoring point could have 3 values the X Y and Z coordinates These values are written at the end of the line with a semicolon as separator Example of an ASCII export 2004 01 01 00 00 00 Barometer mbar Project site Manual measurement 999 10000 single value 2004 01 01 00 00 00 162001 Kpa CRS 6 m NAP 66 00000 34 00000 12 50000 multi value When multi value sensors are configured with a datum reading this export type will export a calculated datum reading for each value This implicates that for example for a 10 value sensor in total 20 measurement values will be exported The first 10 values are the calculated datum reading values and the last 10 values are the calculated measurement values itm ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide A 5 Virtual Sensors This Addin will allow users to
71. k level The tick level for the X axis of the trend plot Y axis tick level The tick level for the Y axis of the trend plot Watchdog Enter an interval in minutes in which you expect to receive new data If new data is not received within this interval a high alarm is generated for this sensor Use this to check incoming data from a datalogger and set the watchdog for one of the sensors connected to this logger if this sensor does not receive new data none of the sensors should The colour of this alarm is grey ASCII file This field is left blank for sensors that require manual input only For sensors that have data in ASCII files this field will contain the filename and path for the ASCII file on the server Example upload data txt For importing files generated with the SignaSoft Auto export tool enter filename as export Data location in This is the position of the sensor data in the ASCII file See Section ASCII ASCII file files for more information Import filter Select the import filter to use on the ASCII file Date format This is the date format in the ASCII file YYYY MM DD or MM DD YYYY etc in capitals Only needed for the ARGUS and geologic format It is possible to perform an out of range check on imported raw data Enter a range in the format lt value gt lt value gt for multi values enter a range for each position Out of range filter Example for a 4 20mA sensor 4 20 The selectable options
72. mited User Manual Argus User Guide Section 13 Data Administrator and User 13 01 Download Data Administrator and User Click the menu option download data to open a new window Enter the sensor id s from which you would like to download data lt is possible to enter a range of id S 6 14 or single id s comma separated To export a specific value from a multi value sensor enclose the ID with brackets as shown in the example Sensor 1 ALLER Sensor list Start time Data format possible start time Calculated data without ms 2004 01 09 18 00 00 2006 08 01 00 00 00 Separator ES d End time possible end time 1 2006 09 12 16 00 00 2006 05 01 00 00 00 Ei Calculate every x value p download Info Depening an file size this operation could take a few minutes The next step is to select the time period by entering a start and end time Please note that the correct format for entering timestamps is according to ISO standard YYYY MM DD HH MM SS Finally you have to indicate if you would like to receive raw data or data converted to engineering units based on the sensor configuration in the project Optionally you may enter another separator t stands for tab separated Click the button download to start the download After this process has been completed right click your mouse on the Save As link and save the zipped file to your PC It is possible to import this data into Excel E
73. mple is 2005 12 12 15 250 56 78 172060 lII40 0 1074 009 9 PEOUS IZ LA152 50 50 79 17207 lI40 0 1074 0794 2005 12 12 15 50 36 87 1126068 11407 0 167 071782 2005 12 12 15 50 36 817 17269 11407 0 167 07682 2005 12 12 15 50 36 862 71712105 114077075167 07682 The datum format does not have to be specified in ARGUS as it is fixed The decimal notation should be a point and not a comma check with your system administrator Remark Values enclosed in quotes will be ignored 7 06 5 Geodetic Format The geodetic import format can be used to import ASCII files containing the sensor short name and the 3 coordinates X Y and Z The timestamp and format is similar to the ARGUS format with the exception that the first field after the timestamp should be the sensor name short 07 06 2004 12 10 00 0ssensor01 s 234567 567854 123456 09 06 2004 09 30 00 0 sensor02 234567 5656557434345 15 067 2004 08 40 00 0 7sensor03 1734567456769 7 123456 The difference to the other import formats is that the geodetic import filter will create new sensors in the database automatically based on the sensor name short In case the sensor short name exists in the database the data will be added to this sensor should the sensor not exist the sensor is created and the data is added to the newly created sensor The date format has to be specified in the sensor configuration like for the ARGUS format
74. mple shown the battery voltage will trigger an alert if it goes above 16 volts or drops below 12 volts In this example only a blue alert level has been set amber and red can be set but in this case were not required The min value must be less than the max level if both are negative values e g 100 and 120 the min level is the lower 120 itm ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide 12 02 Alert Window The menu option Alarms will open a new window in which the project alarms are displayed with the sensor name time of the alarm current alarm level measurement value status confirmed or unconfirmed and alarm remark Click the sensor name to open the trend plot window for the sensor Select alarm status unconfirmed Standard the window will show all unconfirmed alarms which are alarms awaiting confirmation from one of the users You may select from the drop down list box to display only the confirmed alarms or both confirmed and unconfirmed alarms Similar to the plan view window the alarm window has the possibility to select a refresh interval With each refresh the newest alarms are displayed in this window manually update the window by clicking the refresh button An additional option will allow you to hear a sound when a new alarm has been received Click the speaker to switch this option on or off Should an email group be assigned to the sensor this user s will receive an email with th
75. n Explorar proreded by Tid 52d ef gie Vil CR ab reee dem EH cabo pier ez aria NAGA gun he E TNTETOR Cot armado mia WIE err Em ALT kr rq T B Green Prisa Lateral Sleplasceresn ves da sello nf deb Ae laco IT st reo ee dae AM WW rio i Lion go Lee era iin nem ERA bp ERRATA CSI AO B RR EN m W iert Protected hirde De Multiple Sensors with one Y axis Multiple Sensors with two Y axis 5 01 2 Multi Chart Here two or three plots can be shown in a single view These are called virtual plots TAUTA PLUR a Ie e 2 dB ARGOS Moniceng Esfera Blackdeurz lios gei leia Micro biens Esplore prosded by IM Sod Lei ja LI es pow d Escaf ar nder ch gis pert eg ele pan 1 iP REST Ban Tomum raha Z AF EFT TER Til Micreso Internet Explorer provided by ITM Sod Lid T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T 1 CO E E e o o o O C o o O 2 2 B2 Be 9 92 2 9 t o o ee dd qa ivan opp hes one O a a Ki K K K K kal K K gt a a a K a a a K K T a x ol Em a K l r4 LA K l P m Wi d o a Kl Cd a Wi rm m c A A c O si i c Ka sei gt a A A c A A Kc Kc aA a 2 o a a 2 2 o 2 B n n a e n n n n gt Fii things zi A A A zi zi zi zi zi zi zi zi A A A zi mL mA A A A zi zi A A R A A A A A RR RR A A RR EN is EI m m m La m La E m m m La m La La c Lg c c c c c c c gt
76. ne line which could consist of data from different sensors If you would like the new sensor to start where the old sensor left off enter an offset in the sensor formula The replacing sensors option can also be used to eliminate an offset induced by re positioning for example a displacement transducer or taking measurements on settlement plates with extension rods itm i ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide 7 02 Sensor Formula The field sensor formula contains the formula that will be used in order to calculate the raw data into an engineering unit This formula may comprise any mathematical function as listed below The basic syntax IS value No calculation is performed the raw data will be the output of this formula value 5 The raw data value is multiplied by 5 3 value The raw data value is added by 3 value 8 The raw data value is divided by 8 value 2 The raw data value is used and the engineering value from sensor with ID 2 is added A value 2 The raw data value is multiplied by calibration factor A defined in the field calibration factor and the engineering value from sensor with ID22 is added pow value 2 10 Represents value divided by 10 A typical formula for a VW piezometer could be A pow value 2 B value C 1 1013 0 1 3 21 3 0 059984 Where calibration factors are A 0 00017296 B 0 050636 C 1441 7 1 is the reference to the barometric sensor with ID 1 3 is the reference to the
77. ng End User License Agreement End User License Agreement for Argus Monitoring Software This End User License Agreement EULA accompanies Argus Monitoring Software and any upgrades modified versions or updates of the Argus Monitoring Software licensed to you by Interfels GmbH Please read this EULA carefully If you do not accept this agreement you will not be able to use the Software GRANT OF LICENSE Argus Monitoring Software is licensed not sold Interfels GmbH grants the purchaser a non transferable non exclusive license to install Argus Monitoring Software on one server A server is a single computer on which Argus Monitoring Software loads and executes so that one or more users may access it RESTRICTIONS a You may not resell transfer rent or lease Argus Monitoring Software to third parties b You may not host Argus Monitoring Software as a business in itself c You may not install Argus Monitoring Software on more than one Server unless you have purchased additional licenses d You may not modify adapt translate reverse engineer decompile disassemble or otherwise attempt to discover the source code of the Software e You may not violate or defeat the internal licensing mechanism used by Argus Monitoring Software NO WARRANTY Argus Monitoring Software is being delivered to you AS IS and Interfels GmbH makes no warranty as to its use or performance INTERFELS GMBH AND ITS SUPPLIERS DO NOT AND CANNOT WARRANT THE PE
78. ng settings Please take care you always have the original sensor configuration available as a back up itm i ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide 7 10 Multi value Sensors It is possible in ARGUS to assign multiple measurement values to a single sensor in the sensor configuration This is useful for example in geodetic measurements where you have 3 coordinates for each timestamp or for inclinometer measurements where you might have up to 100 measurements for a single timestamp You may enter a single formula that will apply to all measurement values in the same format as with a normal sensor but it is also possible to specify a formula per measurement value value formula for 1 measurement vale value 6 formula for 2 measurement value value 3 formule for 3 measurement value etc Entering individual alarms for each measurement value can be accomplished in the same method as with the formulas The engineering unit can be entered as a normal sensor it will apply to all measurement values Individual engineering units can be assigned by entering the engineering units comma separated The ASCII position for data import can hold multiple import positions by entering the positions comma separated If you would like to refer to measurement values from multi value sensors you have to use the following format 2 or 2 1 Will refer to sensor with ID 2 the 1 value HO 2H Will refer to sensor with ID 2 the 2 value
79. nneatVesexentoeons 18 4 05 Sensor POPOD ue e NS RET oo nia 19 4 06 A So A o ana a E nanang aa ank 20 4 07 Graphs on Plan eP P nn A 20 SECON PrO PIOUS airada dela ilatina SN EEUU UE 21 5 01 Ee gi nn A NG I ga KAE aaa a a Ga aa E aaa BAKEN 22 5 01 1 leie nn tanana nain TEN sana kaa aaa na a ce ka ka e anana aa Eo casa E 22 5 01 2 ANI A SS 22 5 01 3 Profile CR EEN 23 5 02 En a SS 23 5 02 1 CRAaNGINO TME Pe omm 24 5 02 2 Fixed Auto SCAIC cion iaa 25 5 02 3 Using Temporary DatUMI RENE TEE 26 5 02 4 A ES AS 27 5 02 5 e o O SS Na ad aa a ge aaa aeng ag aa 26 5 03 Ves Q 29 Section 6 Project Configuration Administrator Only 1111 e ee eLee eee Lreeern liene nennen nana annua 30 6 01 A o e E Em 30 6 02 Sn o m 32 6 03 O HO WADONE 1919 5 aksa RERO e E a EE Aa eaaa ARIE Ga aia ba 33 Section 7 Sensor Configuration Menu Administrator Only ceeeeeeee eec creeeee rne nnn 34 itm ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide 7 01 Replacing Sensors OE TT 36 7 02 sensor uio eege Ee EE EE 37 7 03 S rs Mele C TENTE 38 7 03 1 Calculated Sensor EE 39 03 2 Mathematical expressions EE 39 7 04 A A E 40 7 05 PAN LUMA FORMA sao iu 40 7 05 1 Rate Of Change Alarm nn nnnnnnn nnn anana anana naa anane anna enere 40 7 06 ASCII files position in ASCII
80. nsor Formula For a multi value sensor use a new line for each value Datum reading In case you would like to use a datum reading i e subtract from the measured value a value from the initial measurement you should enter the timestamp of the datum reading in this field according to ISO format YYYY MM DD HH MM SS To subtract it from your measurement values write datum_reading at the very end of your sensor formula Note When the sensor does not have data you are unable to select a datum reading Value of datum This is a not editable field which shows the raw value of the datum readinc reading me 7 This is an additional calculation to be applied to the results of the sensor formula If no measurement This will define how to handle references to this sensor from other exist after the time calculations in the situation that at the given timestamp this sensor has no stamp use measurement value Last value or Linear Trend prediction If a Measurement This will define how to handle references to this sensor from other exists after the time calculations in the situation that at the given timestamp this sensor has no 4 34 itm ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide measurement value Next value Average or Last Value This field represents the sensor engineering unit i e mm bar etc For multi value sensors enter the engineering units comma separated stamp use
81. nt reading and units Standard Sensor Displays e Sensor Name e Value e Measurement Units c Multi value Sensor Displays Sensor Name 1 value e 2 value e 3 value e Measurement Units In this example the sensor has three values but a sensor could have any number of values ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide itm i ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide 4 03 2 Sensor Mark Here the sensor is shown by a coloured square El The colour of the square indicates that sensors current alert status By moving the mouse pointer over the mark a sensor box will open showing the sensor name the last reading and the measurement units The colour of the box indicates that sensors current alert status ARGUS Monitoring Software Microsoft Internet Explorer provided by ITM Soil Ltd a wW abe SS ARGUS Monitoring Software ARGUS Monitoring Software e itm Briars Lane Hatfed ml e select project plot y a BS http fuww argusmonitoringsoftware com argus_itmfindex php s_cat project8i project 138i planview 27 Edit project New project Site Overview v Edit plan views Create one time plot Edit project plots ASCII export Indinometer Data Logbook 4 itm ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide 4 04 Latest Readings The label boxes show the last reading for the sensor this may or may not be the time of the latest data map time There may
82. number create a sensor representing the tunnel ring number and manually enter timestamps and ring numbers Time period This will define the total amount of measurements that will be displayed The periods starts with the most recent measurement newest latest and you will have to enter a number which will represent the total time period in seconds minutes hours days weeks or months For example a setting of 5 and the selection of days will display the measurement data from now to 5 days ago Calculate every x value Skip readings example Every 2 readings would reduce your data for the graph by half EE CR Name testplot Time period X Sensor Select a sensor for the X axis x sensor Debietmeter 001 delete Add Sensor Select a sensor for the Y axis Sensor sort Right Y axis Style Sensor sort Checking this box will order the EE 8 Lines sensors in the plan view legend by name SE Right Y axis Select if the sensor should be displayed on the Y2 axis Add sensor Style Select the line style normally for X yt marks are used Finally you can set your general plot preferences titles scaling etc and click the button save to save this configuration The plot is now ready to use Select it from the drop down list to see the result itm i ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide 9 05 Plot Titles and Legends Finally on all of the above types you can set your general plot preferences
83. on to select a refresh rate Depending on how often sensors are read you may select a refresh rate in order to update the measurement values in the plan view with the latest results Activate by clicking the refresh button Alternatively you can manually update the plan view by clicking the refresh button without selecting an interval 4 02 3 Recaculate Measurements This should only be done by an Administrator This causes Argus to recalculate all data on the screen this is only required if the sensor configuration is changed and you cannot wait for the next import to update the values Once running no data can be imported Sensor Locations Two different types of graphic sensor representations are available for positioning a sensor on the image The sensor box will display a box with the sensor name short and the current measurement value A sensor mark will only position a small box when the user moves his mouse over this box the sensor name short and measurement value will be shown 4 03 1 Sensor Boxes The box show the sensor name the last reading and the measurement units The colour of the box indicates that sensors current alert status Colour Status Normal Condition Raising Alert Levels Watchdog itm ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide Where a sensor is a multi value sensor the status colour is for the highest alert for any value Map boxes show the sensor name along with its curre
84. or when connected to the Internet from any location in the world ARGUS Server Client PC s Access via Web Browser Proectsite SQL Local Network or Internet Server room or Project site The most distinctive feature of ARGUS is its ability to store raw data in the database and present the calculated results on the fly to the user This implicates that the presented results are always up to date a change in the calculation method or the raw data is instantly visible Another important feature is that you are in 10096 control of the software Once you have purchased ARGUS or use an ARGUS hosting account you no longer need our assistance You can create projects change or add logo s edit the sensor configuration and everything else there is to configure about a project all by yourself over an easy to use webinterface ARGUS is always on line and is a true multitasking data management and presentation tool It can import data from automated systems allow manual data entry allow changes to its configuration present plots and reports all at the same time from different locations and for multiple users You are able to work with more than one administrator at the same time to setup large projects You are able to send alarms to multiple people and view and evaluate the latest results together on line in your web browser late at night at home or from different offices around the world All you need is a web browser and
85. perbolic tangent atanh float arg COS Cosine cos float arg cosh Hyperbolic cosine cosh float arg deg2rad Converts degrees to radian deg2rad float arg exp e to the power of exp float arg log10 Base 10 logarithm log10 float arg log Natural logarithm log float arg pi Get value of pi pi pow itm ITM Limited Exponential expression pow number base number exp 82 User Manual rad2deg sin sinh sqrt tan tanh itm ITM Limited Argus User Guide Converts radian to degrees Sine Hyperbolic sine Square root Tangent Hyperbolic tangent deg2rad float arg sin float arg sinh float arg sqrt float arg tan float arg tanh float arg 83 User Manual Argus User Guide itm ITM Limited User Manual Appendix B Problem Unable to display login page Login appears in wrong language Logo s are not shown ASCII data is not processed Plots are not generated Values in planview not updated Planview sensormark not showing PDF report not generated Alarm email from address wrong After sensor import the amount of sensors has doubled d itm ITM Limited Argus User Guide Troubleshooting Cause URL error Network not correctly configured Network unreachable Wrong language selected at installation Wrong type invalid format Lock file exists Wrong ASCII file format Wrong path in sensor configuration Cronjob is not running
86. project logo Please note that the file type should be PNG JPG or GIF Select a new start up project logo Please note that the file type should be PNG JPG or GIF Set the time zone for your project referenced to the time zone of the hosting server Assign or delete users with access to the project Please note that you are unable to delete yourself Use CTRL key left mouse click to select multiple users Delete an entire project including all data and related files Use with caution once deleted it is not possible to retrieve the deleted data itm ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide 6 03 Project Import Export This menu option will allow the administrator to create a downloadable backup of an entire project configuration but without measurement data and without the sensor configuration This is useful when installing the same project on a 2 or new server or in case ARGUS has to be re installed on your existing server With the checkboxes you can choose if you want to import only appointed sections Project download Import file E Users E Email groups 7 Plan views Sensors plan views El Plots E PDF reports E email groups users ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide Section 7 Sensor Configuration Menu Administrator Only In the sensor configuration all the sensors in the project are defined The following configuration options are available This is a number
87. rithm log float arg pi Get value of pi pi pow Exponential expression pow number base number exp rad2deg Converts radian to degrees deg2rad float arg sin Sine sin float arg sinh Hyperbolic sine sinh float arg sqrt Square root sqrt float arg tan Tangent tan float arg tanh Hyperbolic tangent tanh float arg itm ITM Limited 39 User Manual Argus User Guide 7 04 Function 7 05 This field is normally left blank but in case a function has to be applied to the calculated results of this sensor i e after the sensor formula has been applied you may enter one of the following functions in this field min The minimum value replaces all calculated results in the selected time period max The maximum value replaces all calculated results in the selected time period meanY The average value replaces all calculated results in the selected time period filter low high action value Filter the results which are smaller than the low value or higher than the high value The calculated value is replaced by if action is v the value entered if action lv the last calculated engineering value Filter 10 50 lv 200 will only show results that lie between the values 10 and 50 values outside this range will be replaced by the last valid calculation or the value 200 if no valid value is calculated diff value1 value2 Filters the results that have an absolute difference to the previous measurement grea
88. rsion will allow you to plot up to 3 existing plots underneath each other This feature can be used to arrange the A axis and B axis for inclinometer measurements in one plot or it can be used to plot the X Y and Z co ordinates of a geodetic measurement point or accelerometer Remark For the users it will not be possible to download data from the plot type and or edit the sensor remarks ABB ARGUS Wikang Soltware ODA Bridge E26 Micoowolll inian Expos proedod by TM Scil Lid LES tm ideo Bridge Eb index php ci plot infaBrs usi a ceca KE 2FNA NB da maler Em pbm PETF Data Leeper Baibera eltage 28 03 10 18 00 Bata Legger lesperature Voltage SIP de Done Qi Inem Protected Mode O go RINA e Ke impar Pastecied kee C Once you have defined the name and type of plot you can then configure the plot ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide 9 02 Configuration of x t Plot To add sensors to the plot and to enter titles click on the configuration option Name All Crackmeters Add sensof Time Period Reference Reading Calculate every x value Add Sensors itm ITM Limited Lines e This will define the total amount of measurements that will be displayed The periods starts with the most recent measurement newest latest and you will have to enter a number which will represent the to
89. rty database or it can be used to re import the data in ARGUS The purpose of this import filter for ARGUS is to store calculated results into the ARGUS database This is useful when you have a lot of cross referenced data and you would like to speed up the presentation of the plots See chapter 14 for additional information 7 06 3 Campbell Format The ASCII files from array based Campbell loggers CR10 CR10x CR510 etc can be read with either minute intervals or second intervals The separator is the comma The first field will be the logger ID unused year day of the year time in HHMM optional field seconds value1 value2 etc A typical example minute interval is ty 20037144 07 100 647 308 16572262971 3069 5 22629 paa ds 21 52 21 91 13505 1 2003 144 600 1002 2 3088 21 837 3089 9 22 294 2282 1 21 263 21 66 13 85 1 2003 144 1200 1002 2 3088 21 839 3089 7 21 839 2281 9 21 355 21 81 13 85 1 2003 144 1800 1002 1 3087 9 22 392 3089 7 22 392 2286 1 21 751 22 19 13 85 The date format does not have to be specified as it is fixed The decimal notation should be a point and not a comma check with your system administrator itm ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide 7 06 4 Campbell Table based Format The latest Campbell loggers CR800 CR1000 etc are table based rather than array based The Campbell table based format is also supported The separator is the comma A typical exa
90. s able to work with the software set and confirm alarms enter and edit manual data and download data from the database A guest is only able to view data and not modify data in any way Within each level various options can be turned on off by the administrator by adjusting the menu list for a user 2 ARGUS Monitoring Software Microsoft Internet Explorer provided by ITM Soil Ltd go SS http www argusmonitoringsoftware com argus itm index php s cat user set menu amp i project 108 amp i id 24 amp s order by sortname amp s order direction2ASC Google Pir we we ES ARGUS Monitoring Software fa El oh Page Oj Tools E ARGUS Monitoring Software a 3 mme JL z IT mm LE E HS CS rm 9 l A ad l a al SS BELA a E a lt c a Download data Input manual data Edit data Archive Backup S il gt 3 itm ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide Section 3 Menu Bar After a successful login you will be presented with the main menu In this menu all functions are listed based on the access level you have been granted Depending on the configuration of your server more or less menu items could exist and in some instances dependant on Addins that have been installed and activated e ARGUS Monitoring Software Demo Site Microsoft Internet Explorer provided by ITM Soil Ltd QC
91. ta Reduction beta status It is possible to perform a data reduction on the sensor data This will enable the use of higher measurement intervals whereby alarm levels are checked and only the most important data is stored into the database in order to reduce the amount of data that has to be stored For each sensor that has data reduction enabled 7 new sensors will be created which will represent the maximum minimum number of measurements in data reduction interval mean standard deviation and maximum and minimum value of a dependency sensor Every day at 00 00 the data reduction will take place Enable data reduction and make the following selections delete data dependency sensor interval min retain data days max Sensor ID min Sensor ID n Sensor ID mean Sensor ID stdev Sensor ID max dep Sensor ID min dep Sensor ID Enable this option to delete data from the database once the data reduction is completed This should be enabled as this is normally the purpose of data reduction i e reduce data Add a sensor ID in case the sensor itself has a relation with another sensor and you would like to store the values of this sensor at the maximum and minimum value of the data reduction sensor For example if you monitor wind speed and perform a data reduction you most likely would like to know the wind direction that was measured at the maximum and minimum wind speed hence the wind direction would be
92. tal time period in seconds minutes hours days weeks or months For example a setting of 5 and the selection of days will display the measurement data from now to 5 days ago This is an optional setting which will subtract a reference reading from the results opecicfies the data point interval 1 all data 2 every other point so for example if hourly data specifying 24 means once a day Know how many measurement results you are about to calculate as a rough rule of thumb calculating 500 measurement points for a graph is more than sufficient a 1000px width computer screen cannot display more measurement points without overwriting already existing points This feature will help you to reduce the amount of calculations required to plot a graph and will speed up the entire process Add sensors and indicate with every sensor if the reference reading has to be used if the sensor should be plotted on the right y axis if the alarm levels of the sensor need to be plotted and finally which line type you would like to use Lines will draw a line Marks will only plot a small dot at each measurement point and Lines Marks will draw a line and a dot on every measurement point 54 User Manual Argus User Guide 9 03 Configuration of x t Plot The x y plot is a plot based on x y co ordinates Each co ordinate is defined by a formula with the same functionality as sensor formulas This type of plot can be used for automated inclinome
93. ter systems EL IPI EL Beam systems Hydrostatic profiler data and similar systems whereby chain calculations or another form of calculation is required Name Inklinometer Plot Amount of XY points x1 4 122451000 1 yl eq 1214 0 5 84 18 484 448 Sensor list d C Ve A 7 Ve d Wd d A The x y plot may consist of 7 measurements lines You can assign the following settings to an x y plot Time This will define the time of the measurement that will be displayed Select from the drop down selection box a dynamic setting most recent measurement Displays the most recent measurement First measurement Displays the first measurement x 1 x 2 Xn x 2 second from last reading x 3 third from last etc T 1 T 2 T n T 1 2 1 hour back from last measurement T 2 2 hours back from last measurement If there is no data for the exact timestamp n hours ago the next or the previous measurement to the associated timestamp will be shown according to the setting in the sensor configuration Marks Select the line style from the drop down selection box Most common with x y is Lines Marks Reference Reading This is an optional setting which will subtract a reference reading from the results x and or y component Formula for x In this field you will enter the formulas for the X co ordinates The first point in the plot is defined by co ordinate X0 YO Use the same functionality as in the sensor formula
94. ter than value1 Value2 is the standard value to use in case a previous measurement is not available otherwise the last acceptable value is used stairs timestamp1 value1 timestamp2 value2 The calculated values in the selected time period are replaced with From timestamp1 with value1 from timestamp2 with value2 from timestamp3 with value3 etc Timestamps are entered in the ISO format YYYY MM DD HH MM SS timefunction lt formula gt Any formula like sensor formula where the words time will be replaced by a number representing the amount of seconds that have passed since the first timestamp measurement Example timefunction sin time will plot a sinus using the measurement interval of the sensor Remark For multi value sensors you can enter only maximum one function for each position separated by line breaks If you enter just one function for a multi value sensor this will only be used for the first position of the sensor Alarm Formula In the fields Blue Amber Red or Black Upper and Lower is possible to enter the alarm value for the sensor This can be a fixed value or a formula similar to the sensor formula This enables the use of sensor alarm levels that are referenced to output from other sensors For example 10 1 would represent an alarm level that has a value of the sensor with ID 1 and add 10 For multi value sensors use a new line for each alarm level and precede each level with the index number sim
95. time for the report Last report The timestamp of the last report that was sent Next report The due date and hour for the next report Repeat The report interval if it s set to manual it will only be send by clicking the link send it now Action Edit report settings edit the report layout delete the report from the project or send a manual report 11 02 Report Layout It is possible to use a company logo in the page header and a different logo in the page footer You may also include images or photos from the project in the report All logos and images should be either in JPG or PNG format Upload your logos and images before starting to work on your layout NB if you would like to upload a new image save your layout first Some standard settings in the report are Paper size font type amp size a report title that will appear on the top of every page the logo which can be displayed on the left middle or right side of the page an optional header line horizontal footer logo and line page numbers in the footer on the left middle or right and optional inclusion of the filename on the bottom left corner page Remark 30pixel ca 1cm 75pixel ca 1 inch It is possible to create a cover page for the report that can carry a more detailed title of the project and several subtitles a cover image a footnote and optionally a timestamp which will be the creation timestamp of the report The report may comprise up to 5 Ch
96. ulating every x value Start time End time possible start time 2004 01 09 18 00 00 possible end time 2006 09 12 16 00 00 Time period AAA Reference reading m a m e t ER m m lt m lt x lt a E m E Sensor E sort Datum reading Reference reading Right Y axis testsenso2 celete E testsensor 1 delete Lines Yi Lines marks H i Li Ti Add sensor Legend Date format 3 Title estgraph only for demonstration Title X axis Align X axis Title left Y axis Y1 Preassure Align left Y axis Y1 bottom e Title right Y axis Y2 emperature i Align left Y axis Y2 bottom v Manual scale X axis Manual scale left Y axis Y1 The next step is to select the sensors Click Add Sensor and select a sensor from the project sensor list to add The sensor list displays all sensors in the project with information on name engineering unit and location It also shows sensor remarks entered by users i e Cable lengths malfunctions etc In this list you can also use the search function which will search for sensor id serial number short name and name www Pi Vu Push In Piezometer 1 Geen opmerkingen qitm ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide After selecting a sensor the following table for additional sensor settings will be shown for more information read chapter 6 1 1 The final optional
97. ut leading zeros i e 1 to 12 S seconds i e 00 to 59 o English ordinal suffix for the day of the month 2 characters Le st nd rd or th W 1SO 8601 week number of year weeks starting on Monday Y year 4 digits e g 1999 y year 2 digits e g 99 z day of the year i e 0 to 365 The title for the plot An optional Sub title for the plot The title for the X axis Align the title for the X axis The title for the Y1 axis Align the title for the Y1 axis The title for the Y2 axis Align the title for the Y2 axis Enter your manual scale here otherwise leave blank for auto scale Enter your manual scale here otherwise leave blank for auto scale 59 User Manual Argus User Guide Manual Skale right Y Enter your manual scale here otherwise leave blank for auto scale Axis Y2 Direction text x axis Defines the textdirection of the X axis labels 0 will be horizontal and 90 vertical Tic level X Axis Enter the skip interval for labelling the X axis Tic level left Y Axis Y1 Enter the skip interval for labelling the Y 1 axis Tic level right Y Axis Enter the skip interval for labelling the Y2 axis Click the button create to open a new window in which the plot will be displayed If you would like to change the layout of your plot close the window with the plot and modify the plot configuration Please note Your plot configurat
98. vated by editing the var file on the server By clicking this link a window will open where you will see all existing log files listed The option Change plan view time stamps allows you to reset the time stamps for the sensor boxes and sensor marks on the plan view not for the sensor data in the data base The values displayed on the plan view will only be refreshed if a newer timestamp is received in case you import data with a wrong timestamp for example from 30 of June 2025 your values on the plan views will not be updated until a value is received after the 30 of June 2025 For this purpose you are able to reset the timestamps for specific sensors by entering the id or for a range of sensors 20 200 would be id 20 until 200 itm ITM Limited User Manual Argus User Guide It is also possible to modify the standard email alarm settings The alarm limit is based on the maximum amount of emails that ARGUS should send in an interval of X minutes Standard this option is set to maximum 255 emails per hour Once a user has confirmed an alarm the emailing of alarms will continue In Limit alarm check in days you are able to set a maximum the amount of days the alarm should be calculated for For example if at one time data is imported with values from one week and this Limit alarm check is set to O for all this values it will be checked if a alarm occurred But if Limit alarm check is set to 3 ARGUS will first g
99. x timestamp is based on the time the export started NB Using FTP could result in missing data in case the network connection is not available during the export A 4 2 ASCII File Format Type This export format will export a single calculated measurement value of the sensor in the database at the moment of the ASCII Export the same measurement value as displayed in the plan view The data in the ASCII file will contain the following information per line Time sensor short name unit x y z location remark alarm1 alarm2 alarm3 alarm4 last measurement value s itm i ITM Limited User Manual Time acc to ISO sensor Sensor short name Argus User Guide YYYY MM DD HH MM SS time stamp from last measured value of the Sensor short name text from the sensor configuration Unit mm Kpa C etc text from the sensor configuration XNIZ The X Y Z co ordinates of the sensor number Location MQ1 MQ3 etc text from the sensor configuration Hemark Sensor remark text from the sensor configuration Alarm1 High1 Alarm value for sensor yellow alarm from the sensor configuration Alarm2 High2 Alarm value for sensor red alarm from the sensor configuration Alarm3 Low1 Alarm value for sensor yellow alarm from the sensor configuration Alarm4 Low 2 Alarm value for sensor red alarm from the sensor configuration Last measurement values values multi value sensors

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