Configuration

General remarks

• Customer Owners/Admins of ANITRA devices can access and modify device configuration
  • from Device List
    
  • from Device Profile
    

• Configuration is managed in the dedicated application screen
  

orientation and context

• changes done by users are visualized by blue and red color
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  • unsaved modifications in the configuration are visualized by blue (see no.1)
    • a tooltip hint shows saved vs modified value (see no.5)
    • you can revert to the original value by clicking the particular "pen" icon (at the particular value or group level)
    • closing the screen removes all the unsaved (blue) modifications
  • for applying the modified parameters press the "Save and send" button (see no.3)
    • by doing so, all the blue "pens" will turn to the (waiting) red "clock" icons (see no.2)
    • until the values are not confirmed by the device
      • you can discard the pending value by clicking the particular "clock" icon (at the particular value or group level)
      • you can discard all pending changes by clicking "Discard pending changes" button (see no.4)
• icons (see no. 6) indicate the workflow status of each value (edited >> waiting >> confirmed)
• question mark icon (see no.7) displays in the tooltip hint the default value for each parameter

Configuration delivery and application

• configuration is applied whenever Device connects to communicate (send data)
• only modified config parameters are sent in order to optimize traffic
• 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

• 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)
• Admin Configuration:
  • a range of additional admin parameters which control basic device behavior, allows remote troubleshooting, firmware upgrades, etc.

Configuration Areas

Data collection settings

• GPS/sensor sampling
  • configurable based on both solar or human time)
  • comfortable day/night transition set up
• Data collection triggered by activity
• Continuous Activity Estimation
• Dedicated Mortality detection functionality
• Adjustment of basic data collection cycles based on location (Geofencing using Points of Interest (POIs))
• Communication schedules

Communication schedules

• "Fixed times" - four fixed time slots a day
• "Alternative schedules" - three additional comfortable data delivery planners
  • Human time: cyclic frequency + adjustable cycle sync start
  • Solar time: option of different communication timer during day and night
  • Data: communication can be launched whenever a defined number of records collected by the logger
• One-off schedule: allows scheduling a single communication at particular date and time (e.g. data to be pushed to the server while performing a field check)

Storage mode management

• 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)