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 submit 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

Once the pending parameters are received, accepted, and confirmed successfully by the device the status is changed from red "clock" to green "check"

• note by default the configuration is sent and delivered to the device via GPRS data
• as a supplementary delivery channel SMS can be used ("Send by SMS" button)

• using SMS might help to deliver configuration mainly in certain areas with poor GPRS data coverage
• however please note using SMS has certain limitations
  • SMS delivery is not a guaranteed channel (if not delivered SMS disappears from the network in a couple of hours) - this might cause inconsistency in device configuration temporarily
  • just a small subset of the full configuration scope can be fit into one single SMS (therefore the "Sent by SMS" button is only available till the modifications made fit into one SMS message)
  • also note additional charges might be applied when using SMS excessively

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)