Manual use of the platform

Questions about SmartyPlanet? Here we have the answers

First steps
- Navigation menu
  
  It consists of two blocks, the central and upper. The top allows to change the user account, see the help and change the language. The main menu allows you to browse all the sections of the website. The cover, which starred sensors and a map showing the location of the stations are displayed. The sensors, where the seasons are listed with their content. The map, where georeferenced stations on google maps or synoptic is. Notices, where you can view alerts and generate new shot. The reports, which detailed documents are generated in PDF format from graphs.
- Control Panel / Dashboard
  
  The control panel is a block showing the favorites sensors user, and allows you to have your own configuration and customization of the platform. Initially the dashboard appears empty and can add as many as you like.

What is a sensor?

A sensor is the name given to the graphical representation of data in real time. These data refer to one or several channels of a station. The channels that cause these data can be level, temperature, humidity, radiation, etc.

1 - Indicates that the station is functioning correctly
2 - Sensor name
3 - Station Name
4 - Sector name
5 - River level depending on the water depth and the capacity

Level	Description
Low level	River capacity not exceeding 25% of the total. No imminent danger of flooding in this area
Medium level	River capacity between 25% -50% of the total. No imminent danger of overflow but it is advisable to follow the evolution
High level	River capacity between 50% -75% of the total. You need to follow closely the development of the river, creating alerts to find potential issues
Very high level	River capacity between 75% -100% of the total. It is likely that the river begins to overflow at some point in this section

1 - Height of the water level of the river surface
2 - State capacity
3 - Evolution of the water level in the last 24 hours
4 - Water surface temperature
5 - Volumetric flow rate sections or hydraulic simulation
1 - Time of the last record of sensor
2 - Mark the sensor as a favorite and it will appear on the cover
3 - Access to the sensor configuration
4 - Access to all sensor graphs and statistics

How to add sensors to my dashboard?
- To add a sensor to the control panel, you have to check the button star-shaped sensor. It can be done from anywhere on the platform where the sensor is displayed. Also in the configuration section of the sensor also have this option. To see all available sensors have to access the sensor section and filter by all sensors
How to export to Excel?
- To export data in excel format, the user has to access the extended information of the sensor and press the button to export Excel. Below is an Excel file with the data displayed in the chart is downloaded. If you want to export data from another period or channel, you must first change the filter graph
How to create and configure alerts?
- Alert's section
  
  In this section you can create and configure notifications when or station does not exceed a certain value. You can also configure the notification form, either by email, sms or a post on twitter. This section can generate alerts at any station and sensor.
- Sensor configuration secction
  
  The user can also configure, notices directly from the sensor. To access must push the button shaped round
How can I change my personal information?
- To change the user account, you must access the "Settings My Account" in the top menu. In this section you can change the username, email, password and other personal information such as telephone, locality or date of birth.
How to add a comment?
- Entries are created and displayed by season being displayed. To create a comment will need to enter your comment and hit publish. If the user is not registered in this module, registration request Disqus, Facebook, Gmail and Twitter. Comments can be added from the sensor or away from the station.
- Also, you can mark the comment as a favorite, upload photos or share with social networks. You can also view videos by adding the video URL to comment. Disqus offers options to sort comments according to the timing and significance, and a follower of a user and see all their comments and votes.
How to query historical data?
- Accessing the detail of the sensor, you can consult the historical data. This section allows you to view data from the past 24 hours the past week the past month and year, or select specific periods. Also allows you to query all available channels in this season, export data in excel format and download an image of the graph.
What is a channel?
- A channel is a physical sensor that measures a given parameter, level, temperature, humidity, radiation, wind speed and direction, etc.
How to see the stations on the map?
- This section displays all georeferenced stations, each in their group or location sector. This map allows you to filter the stations according to whether or not a given sensor. The stations can be displayed on a map georeferenced, or on a synoptic map. Hovering above the station, the list of sensors with current value is displayed. You can access the station by clicking on the picture of the station, and detailed information of each sensor hitting the sensor.
How to create custom reports?
- Charts generation
  
  Custom reports are created from the Reports section. First you have to add the graphic that you want to comment on the report, to do so you must select the data period and subsequently the channel. Once you have saved this graph you can add more or go directly to editing the report.
- Edition of report
  
  The report consists of corporate logo, a title and a description of the report and a block that will refer to each of the charts with a title, an image and a comment. Once you have finished editing can generate a downloadable and printable PDF

Manual comprehension the calculation methodologies

Operation and data collection

How does the SmartyPlanet ecosystem works?
- The architecture of sensor networks SmartyPlanet is based on three distinct layers:
- 1. Sensor stations
  
  Dataloggers consist robust and autonomous to which you connect a specialized sensors in order to measure and monitor any environmental or productive proceed parameter.
- 2. Wireless communications
  
  Measured data sensors are periodically sent to a Cloud Server M2M modem GPRS mobile infrastructure and stored in a secure and stable Base Data. For locations without telephone coverage satellite communications or radio links are used to inject the data on the internet.
- 3. Data Processing Center and Web Platform
  
  The enormous amount of information gathered by the sensors is processed on a secure server. There are stored and presented in a user interface in a friendly way through personalized and according to the standards of web 3.0 web platform.
How does the river level sensor work?
- For the height of the water level of the river (Radiation Detecting and Ranging) Radar sensor type used. This device emits electromagnetic waves packets are reflected by the water surface and are detected again by the radar receiver module. The time between transmission and reception for the distance between the sensor and the sheet of water is measured. Knowing the installation height of the sensor relative to the riverbed water level is obtained at that point. The erosion of the channel should be taken into account when identifying the locations for installation of these sensors.
How the flow sensor work?
- To measure the flow rate of the flow in the rivers there are several possible methods. Smartyriver use the following methods as appropriate:
- 1. Height of water on landfill capacity
  
  Is positioned downstream of the height of water surface sensor a rectangular weir lip thin, in order to establish a clear relationship between the height of the water surface and the corresponding flow.
- 2. Hydraulic modeling
  
  In this case, to determine the flow knowing the height of the water surface hydrological models the section where we want to measure with the help of computer application (HEC-RAS). Computer modeling of a direct relationship between the depth or water level and flow is obtained, is what is known as "expenditure curve".
  
  This particular mathematical model for each control point is added to the platform to show the resulting flow rate from the measured height.
  
  To make this model be made to the different calculation parameters such as hydraulic sections, the slope of the river bed roughness and margins, etc ..
- 3. Manual Gauging
  
  Capacity curves that relate depth and flow through measurement campaigns in the control points are developed. The resulting curves are incorporated into the web platform for the flow from the level of water measured by the sensor.
  
  It is necessary that the points where measurements are made with a specific geometry for the depth of the river is not affected by disturbances upstream or downstream of the point of measurement.
  
  Campaigns consisting capacity measuring speed distribution existing in river flow for a given section. Campaigns for different operating regimes seasonal river should be made.
- 4. Flow Sensors
  
  Special sensors are installed in the riverbed that measure the water section and the velocity distribution. This way you can know the current flow directly and very precisely so. Different technologies exist for these sensors; Transit Time, Doppler Effect, etc ..
What is the reaction time of the notices associated with different alarms?
- Notices module platform works the web follows:
  
  The remote stations read the values from the sensors and send this data to servers Data Processing Center periodically (usually every 15 minutes, depending on the season).
  
  Immediately upon receiving the information, the CPD checks if any of the values exceeds a threshold set in the notices of the platform, and if so Launches notice on the web, by email to all users or sms if indicated in the module notices the web platform.
  
  Thus, well-functioning of telecommunications, the maximum delay notice to be published on the web for the event happens does not become greater than 16 minutes
What's the weather radar?
- Weather radar will open a new window with the map and the precipitation of the last few minutes. These data are external to SmartyPlanet and come from the website of Rain-Alarm.El use of this data should be supplemented with other meteorological data for proper interpretation. SmartyPlanet not responsible for the inappropriate use of this information nor its veracity.
Still in doubt?
- If you still have questions you can contact us by calling us at +34 973 640 972 or send an email to info@smartyplanet.com. As it is very important for us to improve our platform, we added a block of Feedback and support. There you can send suggestions for improvement, vote on ideas that you find interesting or send an incidence.