Configuration

Overview & Basic Concepts

Users with admin rights (device owners/admins) can access the configuration from the lists and profiles using cogwheel icons.

Note the configuration functionality is available for Anitra devices only.

Configuration screen is structured into three main areas

• Data collection settings
• Communication schedules
• Other settings

Any changes made are visualized by blue and red symbols close to the modified setting and in the top right corner of each modified section

• symbols ("pen", "clock" and "check") show the status of each configuration (edited (=blue "pen") >> pending (=red "clock") >> confirmed (=green "check"))

New modifications (not yet submitted) are highlighted by blue color

• these modifications can be reverted to saved values simply by closing the config screen or by clicking on the blue "pen" (for a particular parameter or on the section level)
• in order to apply the modified parameters, click the "Send" button below

Submitted values are highlighted by red color

• >> all the blue "pen" icons change to red "clock" icons indicating the value is waiting for the device to apply it
• note the configuration changes apply whenever the tag connects to communicate/send data
• until the values ​​are confirmed by the device the pending changes can be modified or canceled
  • by clicking on the particular "clock" icon - for a particular parameter or on the section level
  • by clicking on the "Discard all pending changes" button below - for canceling all

• Question mark icon (see no.7) displays in the tooltip hint the default value for each parameter

• by default the configuration is sent and delivered to the device via GPRS data
• an alternative delivery channel is SMS ("Send by SMS" button)
  • using SMS might help to deliver configuration in areas with poor data coverage but please note that using SMS has certain limitations
    • SMS delivery is not guaranteed which might cause inconsistency in device configuration temporarily
    • just part of the full configuration scope can be fit into single configuration SMS ("Sent by SMS" button is only available till all the modifications fit into one SMS message)
    • additional charges might be applied when using SMS

Configuration structure/areas

• Admin Configuration
  • not available to users
  • a range of admin parameters that control basic device behavior, allows remote troubleshooting, firmware upgrades, etc.

• User configuration: covers the following aspects of device behavior
  • Data collection settings (GPS/sensor frequencies, activity, mortality, geofencing, data bursts, etc)
  • Communication settings
  • Storage mode (sleep, power off)

Data collection settings

GPS/sensor sampling

• configurable using solar or human time
  • "solar time"
    • the device synchronizes the data collection to local GPS time based on GPS.
    • comfortable day/night transition set up (sun angles above the horizon). Visual control over the settings
    • sampling frequency for day/night entered parallel in seconds, minutes or hours
    • easy synchronization between various animals
      
  • "human time"
    • 24hours cyclic GPS/sensor frequency setting (day/night ignored)
    • the cycle starts at the pre-defined hour (UTC)
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Activity triggered data collection

• checkboxes for two different algorithms detecting movement
• trigger 1: a slot fixed for a generic algorithm detecting movement from the accelerometer
• trigger 2: a slot ready for other customized movement detection algorithm(s). Up to 12 variable algorithms can be implemented on request and assigned to trigger no.2
• a sensitivity range for each of the algorithms available
  

Activity Estimation

• a checkbox to switch on continuous activity estimation
• activity is measured twice a minute which allows the construction of a very detailed activity journal
• note: this functionality is not data intensive (no additional data costs) but it consumes some energy on top of regular GPS/communication cycles
  

Mortality detection

• a dedicated mortality detection functionality
• allows detecting mortality of the tracked individual very quickly and reliably
• species (or even individual) calibration of the detection sensitivity possible
• calibration parameters are
  • the detection sensitivity level
  • the number of confirmation cycles (interval of 30 seconds) before the mortality warning is raised
• when turned on, the functionality consumes some extra energy
  

Geofencing using POIs

• an adjustment of basic data collection cycles based on geographic location
• the definition consists of
  • GPS position of the center of POI + radius/range from the center of the circle
  • modified day/night data collection interval
• up to 20 static POIs with different configurations can be defined for each device
• flexible mapping to the database of Nests, favorite perches, Pylons, or other POIs
• ready for dynamic POIs synchronization (the tag downloads definition for 20 geographically closest POIs)
  

GPS/sensor bursts

• switching device to collect the raw GPS/sensor data
• energy and data-intensive mode
• maximum frequency of 250HZ
• data bursts can be triggered with or without GPS fixing
• minimum battery level restriction to trigger the burst

Communication schedules

Fixed times

• four fixed time slots a day
  

Alternative schedules

• three additional comfortable data delivery schedules
  • Human time: cyclic frequency + adjustable cycle sync start
    
  • Solar time: option of different communication timer during day and night
    
  • Data: communication launched whenever a defined number of records collected by the logger
    

One-off schedule

• allows scheduling a single communication at a particular date and time (e.g. data to be pushed to the server while performing a field check)
  

Storage mode

• allows to power off devices and configure timeslot for regular device/battery state notification only (i.e. device wakes up only to report battery state at predefined day hour each X days)