Using the Mobile Client

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Last updated: Jul 05, 2022
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Introduction

This section labels the main aspects of the AdvanceGuard® Mobile Client display.

The behaviour of the AdvanceGuard® Mobile Client will reflect the configuration of the AdvanceGuard® application. For example; a user logged into the Mobile Client will have the same permissions as in the main application. Unlike the main Windows application, these permissions cannot be set using the Mobile Client, they must be configured in the main client.

Contents

Main Display Features

System Menu: Opens or closes the System Menu.

User: The logged in user.

Role: The user’s role.

System Mode: The current selected System Mode. This also acts as a selector so that the user can change the current mode.

System Profile: The current selected System Profile. This also acts a selector so the user can change the current profile.

PPI Navigation Control: Controls to help navigate around the map display, including pan (if the Home Style is set to Full) and return to the origin.

Alarm: Opens or closes the Alarm panel.

Notifications: Notifications will show for a short period before disappearing.

Changing System Mode or Profile

It is possible to change the System Mode or System Profile:

  1. Selecting one of the entries:

     

  2. This will open the Change System Mode or Change System Profile dialogue:

     

  3. The operator can then quickly change the Mode or Profile.

System Menu

Clicking on ☰ will open the System Menu:

Site Map

This will open or close a moveable dialogue to navigate to parts of the site. There is a find / filter option to locate an entry quickly:

Double-clicking an entry will automatically move the map to show the location of the entity.

Map Style

This offers the following map styles:

Map: The default Google road map.

Satellite: Google road map with the Google satellite overlay.

Terrain: The Google terrain map.

OSM: An alternative road map provided by Open Street Map.

Home Style

This allows the choice of a simple or full PPI Navigation Control:

Simple: The user can navigate using keyboard or mouse and return to the origin:

Full: The user can also navigate around the map using the pan arrows:

Query

Recent Tracks: This offers a view of all tracks from 5 minutes to 48 hours ago. Selecting a particular track will display track data.

Recent Alarm Tracks: This offers a view of all tracks which have been involved with an alarm from the last 5 minutes to 48 hours ago. Selecting a particular track will display track data.

Clear: This will clear the screen of selected tracks.

Alarm Panel

Alarm: Opens or closes the Alarm panel. If there are active alarms, then the alarm symbol will be red. If there are no active alarms, then the symbol will be black. The Alarm panel will show the following fields for each alarm:

Severity: Defines the severity of the rule broken by that track.

Alarm ID: A unique alarm identifier.

Description: Description of each alarm.

Created: When the alarm was triggered.

Cleared: When the alarm was automatically cleared if the system is configured to automatically clear alarms.

Actions:

Locate: Select locate to automatically pan the map to show the location of the alarm.

Acknowledge: This will remove the alarm from the list if the setting is enabled.

Live Alarms

  1. Live alarms will appear in the Live Alarms list as they are triggered:

     

  2. Select the Locate icon to pin-point the location on the PPI:

     

  3. Select this button to clear the selected alarm:

     

  4. This will open the following option allowing the user to change the Clear Duration and to clear the alarm:

Pending Alarms

The pending acknowledgement list shows all alarms which have been cleared but not acknowledged.

This tab will only be available if the Auto Acknowledge setting has been disabled in Settings > System Settings > Alarm Options.

  1. Select the Locate icon to pin-point the location on the PPI:

     

  2. Select the icon below to acknowledge the alarm:

     

  3. When acknowledging an alarm the following dialogue is displayed if the Require Acknowledge Details flag has been set in Settings > System Settings > Alarm Options, thereby also allowing the user to make any notes if necessary:

System Alarms

These are typically health and configuration alarms which are only raised if a problem has been detected with the overall operation of the system.

Cameras

Camera Operation Mode

  1. This can be changed by clicking on the camera:

     

  2. This will load the Camera Info panel. The user can change the Operation Mode setting by clicking on the Automatic label to change it to Manual Override and vice versa:



Follow Target

A camera can be selected to follow a target on the Mobile client in two ways:

  1. Right Click a target to latch a camera. This will force the target to be followed by the most appropriate camera until the latch is cleared:

     

  2. Left Click a target to open the Track Info panel, and then click on the Follow Target icon to change the setting to Following:

     

  3. The system will then set the most appropriate camera to follow the target for as long as it’s tracked:

Moving a Camera

It is also possible to move a camera (outlined in pink) to view any part of the site.

  1. Clicking on the desired location on the map:

     

  2. Click the spot that you wish to view:

     

  3. A camera will return to follow targets if there any breaking rules or return to its home position after a manual move. Both options will happen after the dwell timeout which is configurable on the camera settings in the main application.

If no camera is selected, then the Camera Controller will select the most suitable camera to view the selected location. This will depend on a number of factors including range, configured camera areas and availability. If a camera is selected then this will be the camera that is used to view the selected location.

Arm & Disarm an Area

The user can Alarm or Disarm an area:

  1. Left Click an area and select the Arm / Disarm option from the area Info panel:

     

  2. This will activate the Radar Info panel. The user can change the area type from Alarmed to Not Alarmed (and vice versa), by clicking on the Alarmed or Disarmed button.

     

  3. This will open a Timeout dialogue which has the same time out settings as the Entity Timeouts in the main application. The user can then select the desired timeout period of 5m to 125m; after which the area will automatically revert to the previous state. The Immediate option bypasses the timeout and indefinitely fixes the area at the selected state.

     

  4. In the example below, the Path area has been disarmed, so the alarm will no longer be triggered by a target in that area:

Set Tag & Severity

An operator can also tag a track:

  1. Select the Set Tag And Severity icon:

     

  2. This will open the Set Tag And Severity panel:

     

  3. This will show the Tag Preset options configured in System Settings.

  4. This will then tag the track with the selected Tag Preset name and severity. Tag Preset details are viewable in the Playback Track Query when you search for tracks. You can also search for tracks using the Tag Preset name.

Safety is everything.