Application
uMonitor is a windows based application designed for instrumentation projects that require real-time monitoring of data. With proper configuration, uMonitor has been successfully used for instrumentation projects including multistory buildings, tunnels, deep excavations, railways, subway systems, airports, dams and hydroelectric schemes.
Features
- Automated data acquisition and processing
- Automatic updating of current status
- Graphical display, against time and over an area, in real-time and historically
- Alarm checking, triggering and annunciation
- Can be run on a network so members of a project team can share the data
Data Acquisition
uMonitor is primarily designed for use with Campbell Scientifics' dataloggers. Used in conjunction with Loggernet, it polls up to 12 dataloggers and retrieves sensor data unattended, according to user specified schedule.
Data Processing
Raw data from up to 200 sensors per logger are processed and stored automatically in a database that is compatible with Microsoft's Access program.
Real-Time Graphical Display
After processing, the current readings of the sensors are displayed over images of site in plan view, section view, or actual photograph.
The sensor readings are showed in appropriate locations, color-coded for alarm status, and with instant access to trend plots for past five days.
Multiple displays can be tiled to allow the user to check entire site at a glance and to see where activity is occurring.
Alarm Checking
Up to three alarm thresholds can be assigned to each sensor. While running in real-time mode, uMonitor will test readings from each sensor against the alarm limits and display the readings in green, blue, amber, and red accordingly. In addition, when triggered, an alarm warning dialogue will be pop-up, displaying the time, the alarm level, the sensor reference, and the sensor reading. These alarms can be alert via the PC speakers, via emails or via the (optional) mobile phone's SMS.
Historical Data Analysis
uMonitor comes complete with facilities to graph and to replay historical data for reporting and post analysis. The data can be displayed in trend graphs, in profile plots, or in plan view or section view similar to the real-time display.
The graph shows a trend graph of readings from a group of sensors against time.
The graph shows the graph data that can be exported to Microsoft Excel for additional processing.
The figure on the left shows the profile plot of a string of linked EL beam sensors.
Web Publishing of Data
Automatic real-time Web publishing of the instruments data.
