Update an Equipment or Activity Group

Update an Equipment or Activity Group


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

Access 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 the Equipment or Activity Group name 



  1. Click on Edit Equipment Group Name (in blue bar)
  2. In the pop-up, change the Group Name
  3. Click on Save. You'll notice the name has updated in the heading above the blue bar.
  4. If there are no further changes to be made, click on the arrow to go back to Site Administration

Deactivate the Equipment or Activity Group



  1. Click on Edit Equipment Group Name (in blue bar)
  2. Change the Status to "Inactive"
  3. Click on Save. 
  4. Click on the arrow to go back to Site Administration


When an Equipment Group is made "inactive", the icon is greyed out and the deactivated group is listed down the list below the active ones. 

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.
The T+ Buttons store a maximum of 4096 readings, which equates to 4 weeks of readings at 10-minute logging intervals.

Set lower temperature limit 

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

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

Update the upper temperature limit for 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.
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.
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.
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.
If you wish to receive an alert based on each actual reading, enter the value equal to the reading interval. In this example: 5 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.

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.

  1. To exit the "Equipment Group and Rules" view,  click on the arrow to go back to Site Administration.
All done!



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