Record Equipment or Activity Group rules

Record Equipment or Activity Group rules


Aim: To update the rules of a distinct group of equipment or activities to ensure these reflect your monitoring needs. 

Go to Site Administration

  1. Click on on Administration.
  2. Select Site Administration.
Only Account Administrators and Site Administrators are able to access the Administration view

Select the Equipment or Activity Group



  1.  Select the Site from the site hierarchy.
  2. Click on the Equipment Group tab.
  3. Click on View next to the applicable Equipment Group.

Update Equipment or Activity Group monitoring rules 

The Equipment Group and Rules page is where the monitoring rules that apply to this specific Group. 
From this view, you can update the list of rules presented for this specific Group.



Logging interval 

Readings are set based on a defined time slot whereby an hour must be evenly divisible by the interval selected.
This ensures that all loggers in your environment can be seamlessly matched on a timeline.
Examples:
  1. For a reading interval of 10 minutes,  the first reading will be collected on the 10 minute timeslot and repeat every 10 minutes hence - 60/10 minutes = 6 readings per hour.
  2. For a reading interval of 3 minutes, the first reading will be collected at the 3 minute timeslot and repeat every 3 minutes hence - 60/3 minutes = 20 readings per hour.
  3. A reading interval of 7 minutes is not permitted as it is not evenly divisible into 60 minutes.
  1. Click Edit next to "Logging interval"
  2. Enter a value in minutes (whole numbers).
When the logging interval is less than 3 minutes, the rollover function (see below) is automatically set to “No” to ensure that the battery of the logger is not depleted unintentionally.
  1. Click Save.

Rollover – Yes or No?

  1. Click Edit next to “Rollover".

  1. Select Yes or No from the drop-down menu.
    1. When Yes is selected, the system overwrites the earliest readings of the logger when it reaches full capacity.
    2. When No is selected, the system instructs the logger to stop recording when it is full.
Rollover is not permitted for logging intervals of less than 3 minutes. In this case, once the logger has reached its maximum storage capacity, it stops recording.
  1. Click Save.
The AnnoLog loggers store a maximum of 6000 readings, equating to 6 weeks of readings at 10-minute logging intervals.

Set lower temperature limit to highlight temperature excursions

The lower temperature limit is the minimum permitted temperature to flag that the temperature readings below this level require review.

  1. Click Edit next to “Temperature Low Limit”.
  2. Enter the applicable value.
  3. Click Save.

Set upper temperature limit for temperature to highlight temperature excursions

The upper temperature limit is the maximum permitted temperature to flag that temperature readings above this level require review.

  1. Click Edit next to “Temperature High Limit”.
  2. Enter the applicable value.
  3. Click Save.

Update lower temperature excursion limit alert notification 

You may wish to receive an alert only when a temperature reading is recorded below the lower limit continuously for more than X number of minutes.
This is to take into account that equipment are often opened and closed to retrieve and replace specimens and products and that the temperature is expected to fluctuate briefly while those tasks are completed. This measurement provides data on whether the equipment is restabilizing within the expected timeframe.
Example:
By specifying a "logging interval" of 10 minutes and a "temperature Permitted Consecutive Below Limit” of 30 minutes, it will take 3 (30/10) consecutive readings below the low limit before an alert is generated that would highlight that the temperature is still not back above the set lower temperature limit.
If you wish to receive an alert based on each actual reading, enter the value equal to the reading interval. In this example: 10 minutes.
  1. Click Edit next to “Temperature Permitted Consecutive Below Limit".

  1. Enter the number of minutes - This number is a multiple of the logging interval.
  2. Click Save.

Update upper temperature excursion limit alert notification

You may wish to receive an alert only when a temperature reading is recorded above the upper limit continuously for more than X number of minutes.
This is to take into account that equipment are often opened and closed to retrieve and replace specimens and products and that the temperature is expected to fluctuate briefly while those tasks are completed. This measurement provides data on whether the equipment is restabilizing within the expected timeframe.
Example:
By specifying a "logging interval" of 5 minutes and a "temperature Permitted Consecutive Above Limit” of 15 minutes, it will take 3 (15/5) consecutive readings below the low limit before an alert is generated that would highlight that the temperature is still not back below the set pper temperature limit..
If you wish to receive an alert based on each actual reading, enter the value equal to the reading interval. In this example: 10 minutes.
  1. Click Edit next to “Temperature Permitted Consecutive Above Limit".

  1. Enter the number of minutes - This number is a multiple of the logging interval.
  2. Click Save.

Set default mission duration

For some activites, such as monitoring heated stages, ongoing continuous monitoring may not be a requirement of your laboratory management system. In such cases, you may elect to monitor only for a maximum number of hours periodically. E.g.: Monitor at the defined temperature limits for 4 hours only.
By using this setting, when the start time is selected for this equipment in the mobile app, the end time is automatically selected.
  1. Click Edit next to “Default Mission Duration”
      
  1. Enter the required monitoring duration, in whole number of hours up to 240 hours (10 days). Set at "0" if this is not a requirement.
  2. Click Save.

Update alert function 

  1. Click Edit next to “Disable Alerts”


  1. Select Yes or No.
  2. Click Save.

On completion, all your settings for the Equipment Group are presented.
To exit the "Equipment Group and Rules" view,  click on the arrow to go back to Site Administration.
All done!