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Introduction

This page covers the SafeGuard™ Configuration Application PPI.

For more information about SafeGuard™ please refer to this documentation: Application Overview.

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PPI Display

The PPI on the Configuration Application Dashboard is a live two-dimensional view of the radar display based around a geographical interface. The radar data is displayed in green with Data Points, Alarm Areas, the Radar Info Panel, and in some circumstances an Area Alarms Panel. It is updated once a second.

PPI Navigation Control

Home Icon: Returns the PPI Display to the home view. 

Pan Arrows: These pan the PPI Display along the points of the compass, in small increments.

You can also use your mouse scroll wheel to zoom the PPI Display in and out, in small increments.

Area Alarms Panel

The Area Alarms Panel shows the alarm status via an alarm indicator for each area through a colour-coded circular icon. If an indicator turns from green (OK) to red (not OK) then an alarm has been given.

The Area Alarms Panel will only be displayed if an alarm has been triggered.

Radar Info Panel

This is an overview of key radar details:

🔴: The health status of the radar of the alarm will be represented through a colour-coded circular icon; green = OK and red = not OK.

Model No.: The model number of the radar.

Serial No.: The serial number of the radar.

Range (bins): The total number of measurements taken for each azimuth sample. The calculated range of radar is Range Resolution x Range in Bins. Bins are individual cells measured by radars and the bin size must be rounded to the nearest 8 bins.

Bin Size (m): The size of each bin which is detected by the radar.

Range: This is the area of radar coverage.

Speed: This is configured rotation speed of the radar, displayed in milli-Hertz. (Hz x 1000).

Azimuths: This is the total number of azimuth samples taken by the radar in a single rotation.

Pkt Rate Hz): This is the average rate of data packets being transferred from the radar. 

Alarm Areas

Up to six configured Alarm Areas will be displayed on the PPI. These are outlined in white. Alarm Areas will only be displayed on the PPI if they have been enabled in the Application Settings: https://navtechradar.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IA/pages/2542862340/Application+Settings#Area-Rule-Configuration

Data Points

Data Points (any peaks above threshold values) are shown as red dots on the PPI.

Data Point Controls

The live data on the PPI can be paused with the Pause button and resumed with the Play button.

In pause mode you will be able to click on a Data Point which will display information on the Data Navigation Tab. Please refer to: https://navtechradar.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IA/pages/2543026177/Configuration+Application+Navigation+Data#Navigation-Data for more information.

The Filter button gives you an option to only see Data Points within the Alarm Areas.

Mouse Coordinates

Your mouse’s position when hovering or clicking on the PPI is displayed in radar coordinates here.

Log Panel

The Log Panel is part of the PPI. It shows major updates from the radar, including connects, disconnects, alarms, configuration changes, data pauses and errors:

These logs are kept locally for as long as the application is open, and will show up to 100,000 messages before it overwrites them (oldest first).

Log File

There is a detailed log file that is saved called Boson.txt within the Configuration Application folder. Here is an example:

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