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User Interface
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Plugin Tree: Lists all the Integration and Simulation Plugins. The Start and Stop buttons will start and stop any enabled Integration Plugins.
Plugin Configuration Panel: This panel displays the configuration for the currently selected plugin, either integration or simulator, including the Active Alarms List and the Active Tracks List.
Log Panel: Shows all the log output from the application and plugins.
The Integration Simulator will load up two distinctly different types of plugins - Integration Plugins and Simulation Plugins.
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Adding Alarms
To add a new alarm:
Click the Add Alarms button:
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The alarm details field will be enabled so you can edit the alarm details in the Security Alarms section, which will then populate the Live Alarms List beneath it (both highlighted):
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You can then add more alarms by repeating steps 1 to 2.
Next, select Send Alarms to publish the configured Active Alarms List:
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Once you have sent the alarms, there is an alarms sent message displayed in the Log Panel, highlighted above.
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You can add several alarms at the same time. Once added, you will be able to edit any of these alarms by selecting them in the Active Alarms List. However as soon as you select Send Alarms you will only be able to edit the alarm severity. Once you have sent the Active Alarms List the Clear and Acknowledge Alarms options will become available. |
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To update an existing alarm:
Select the alarm you wish to update; you can select all alarms by selecting the checkbox in the column header or select individual alarms:
Change the severity (this is the only property available to change after you have sent an alarm):
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Click Send Alarms.
Clearing Active Alarms
To clear active alarms:
Select the required alarms from the Active Alarms List:
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Select the Clear Alarms button:
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Alarms will be marked as cleared in the list and alarm updates will be automatically published:
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Alarms must have been sent before they can be cleared. |
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To acknowledge a cleared alarm:
Select the cleared alarms you wish to acknowledge.
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Select Acknowledge Alarms.
The alarm will be acknowledged. Alarm updates will be automatically published:
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Alarms must have been cleared before they can be acknowledged. |
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To delete a cleared alarm:
Select the alarms that wish to delete and click the Delete Alarms button:
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The system will delete the selected alarms, and remove them from the Active Alarms List.
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Alarms must be acknowledged before they can be deleted. |
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To send a camera control:
Select a camera from the list.
Enter a movement type - Automatic or Manual, and Track Id, if required.
Select the Send Camera Command button.
Tracks
Allows you to create and publish tracks. Tracks can include the normal position and movement data as well as broken rule information.
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To Add Tracks
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To add a track:
Select Add Track.
The track will be added to the active track list with default data.
Edit the settings to suit your testing.
Repeat these steps to add more tracks if required.
To send the active tracks, select the Send Tracks button.
To include Rule Ids in the track broken rule data, select the required rules from the Rule List before sending the tracks.
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Once you have added a track, you can easily change the track attributes by selecting it in the list and then changing the attributes in the Tracks form. This allows you to add multiple tracks with the ability to update them as required. The tracks will remain editable even after you have selected Send Tracks. Each time you select Send Tracks the same tracks will be sent but with values that have been set in the Tracks form. This gives you the ability to simulate a moving track. |
To Remove a Track
Select one or more tracks from the active tracks list by using the Remove checkbox column. You can also select all of the tracks by selecting the Remove checkbox in the column header.
Select the Clear Tracks button.
The tracks will be removed from the Active Tracks List.
Highways Simulator
The included Highways Simulator simulation plugin can be used to set up carriageways and radars and can also be used to create carriageway statistics and highway alarm messages.
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To change the number of radars:
Select Configure Radars to open the Configure Radars dialogue. Here you can choose the number of radars you need:
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Click OK.
This will delete all existing radars and create new ones until the desired number is reached. Any Integration Plugin tied directly to radar or radar entity updates will be affected by this.
Configure Carriageways
To change the number of carriageways and, or the number of sections per carriageway:
Select Configure Carriageways to to open the Configure Carriageways dialogue. Here you can change the number of carriageways and sections per carriageway:
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Click OK.
This will recreate the carriageways as required. All carriageways will be created with 4 lanes and with the default rules; Debris, ERA, Person, Queue, Reversing Vehicle, Slow Vehicle and Stopped Vehicle.
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By default, carriageways are generated with settings that include an 11 m/s queue threshold, 16 m/s heavy traffic density and a track density queue of 4. For Integration Plugins that are able to output section queue and heavy traffic flags, these criteria will need to be met. |
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When restarting the system, the last saved configuration will be loaded. |
Save Configuration
Select Save Configuration to save the current configuration to file:
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You will receive a log message indicating a successful save and where the configuration file has been saved to. For example; %ProgramData%\Navtech\Highways Integration Simulator\HighwaysSimulatorConfig.xml
Section and Rules
You can now administer the Sections and the Rules for your carriageways to send alarms against carriageway rules by selecting the sections and rules you want to raise the alarm against. Optionally, you can select a lane for the alarms as well. To do this:
Ensure the Sections and Rules tab is open:
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There will be a list of the sections you have configured with the rules.
You can select sections and the rules that you wish to apply by selecting their check boxes:
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In the example above, Section 1 of Lane 1 has been chosen with a variety of rules. The Auto Acknowledge check box has been selected by default.
Add Alarms
You can now add your selection to the Live Alarm List.
Click the Add Alarms button:
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This will add each of the rules for the section to the Live Alarms List as highted above.
Selecting the check box on the Live Alarms List toolbar will select or deselect all of the checkboxes below it:
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Alternatively, you can select individual rows in the list.
Send Alarms
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The alarms are only sent to the enabled integration plugins. |
To send an alarm:
Click the Send Alarms button:
In this example, the ICD-100 XML Plugin has been enabled and the Log Panel shows that the 6 alarms have been sent (highlighted in pink).
The alarm simulator contains the same limitations as the actual Witness 4 system in that only one alarm can be raised for each rule and section combination and does not generate separate alarms for different lanes.
Clear Alarms
To clear the alarms:
Click the Clear Alarms button; you can select all alarms by selecting the checkbox in the column header or select individual alarms:
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As the Auto Acknowledge check box has been selected then clearing the alarms will also acknowledge them as in the example above.
If the Auto Acknowledge check box has not been selected:
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Clicking on the Clear Alarms button will clear the alarms but not auto acknowledge them:
Acknowledge Alarms
To manually acknowledge the alarms:
Select the alarms you wish to acknowledge which will enable the Acknowledge Alarms button:
This will then acknowledge the alarms on the list:
Delete Alarms
You can delete all alarms by selecting the checkbox in the column header or select individual alarms:
Select the alarm or alarms from the list and click the Delete Alarms button:
The selected alarms will be removed:
Reset Configuration
To reset the Section and Rules configuration back to default:
Click the Reset Configuration button:
This will clear the sections, rules, Alarm Lane and Live Alarm List, and will select the Auto Acknowledge check box.
Send Statistics
You can use the commands available in the Carriageway Statistics section to Send Statistics or Traffic Analysis reports.
Click Send Statistics: this will will send randomly generated statistics for each section of the selected carriageway. You can change the selected carriageway from the Carriageway dropdown:
These statistics will be displayed within the Log Panel, as above.
Clear Traffic
To send zero traffic stats for every section of the selected carriageway:
Click the Clear Traffic button. This will also raise the flag that the entire carriageway is clear of traffic.
Send Section TA
If any section has been selected in the Section and Rules tab you can send out Traffic Analysis messages:
Click the Send Section TA button:
This will send out a randomized traffic analysis message with reports for the selected sections. In the above example it has sent out messages for Section 1.
Send Clear TA
To see a message showing that there is no traffic within a section:
Click Send Clear TA to send a traffic analysis message for all of the selected sections in the Section and Rules tab:
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