Introduction

This section covers navigating AdvanceGuard® once you have successfully logged into the system.

Contents

Main Display Features

Open

Page Tabs:

Live: The primary map display to show all real time data and incidents.

Playback: The data query facility. This tab allows you to conduct sophisticated queries on all recorded data including tracks and alarms.

Alarm Dashboard: The Alarm Dashboard gives an overview of recent alarms.

Configuration Tree: This displays all of the configured entities in the system.

Edit Status Icon: This indicates the current status of the edit lock:

No Edit Lock - the icon will remain white when there are no edits in progress - only those with the correct permissions can start an edit.

Remote Edit Lock - the icon will go red when another user, with the correct permissions, on a different workstation, has initiated a lock. No-one else will be able to start an edit until they have finished.

Help: Documentation: This button provides a link to related documentation.

Window Commands:

Open

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

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

Notification Dropdown List: Shows a list of the last 30 notifications that have been displayed in the UI.

PPI Map Display: This is the primary map display that provides operators situational awareness across their entire site, offering real time information on targets and incidents.

Alarm Panel: Displays details of active alarms, pending alarms and system alarms. In addition, details on active and retained tracks are displayed in separate tabs.

System Menu: Opens the System Menu screen, which is the primary menu for the Witness Client, and provides visibility to all the core system settings and functions:

Settings: The applications settings shows the configuration of all core and optional features.

System Logs: The system records each event, and these logs will be displayed within this screen.

Licence: The licence dialog displays the current licence including all the licenced components.

Reset View: This functions resets all the panels to the default layout for the current tab in the main window. If you have the relevant permissions, you can move panels around and significantly alter the layout of the user interface. This function is useful to revert to the default layout or restore panels which may have been accidentally removed.

Schedules: This displays the System Event Scheduler, which shows configured Schedules which are designed to trigger system events or run regular tasks.

Search: This is a search function to quickly find any entity in the system. When you select the Search function it opens the Entity Search dialog from which you can find any entity and easily locate it within the system.

Notes: You can use this facility to record notes about setup and configuration changes. This feature allows you to record general notes as well as specific notes against each configuration change,

When the form is opened it will display all the most recent configuration change logs so you can add notes as required. You can also review older notes by adjusting the search criteria and retrieving historical entries from the database.

New PPI Panel: Each time you select this option from the System Menu a new map display window (PPI) will be opened. This enables operators to monitor large sites with relative ease. It also allows the operator to associate camera views with specific areas of the map to provide excellent situational awareness.

User: This displays the settings that can be made unique to an individual user, as it will save their system preferences to their particular profile. It is possible to change password and Log Out in order to change users.

Live

View real-time results as targets are tracked; all within an intuitive graphical interface. Interact with real-time target and alarm data to manage incidents and maintain an unprecedented level of situational awareness.

PPI Navigation Control: Controls to help navigate around the map display, including pan, zoom and return to the origin. There is also a toggle for the Configuration Tree and Alarm Panel.

New Notification: This displays a new notification for approximately 10 seconds. All notifications will be saved within the Notification Dropdown List until they are cleared.

Track: Displays details of the selected track.

Alert Overview: If enabled, the Live Alarm Alert icon (bell shape), and the System Alarm Alert (pulse shape) icons will be displayed in a coded, solid colour if there are alarms. If there are no alarms, then the shape will be visible - opaque and without colour.

Map Scale: Displays the current map scale for the activate zoom level.

Selected Track Mini Control: Displays data about the selected Track.

Area Mini Control: Displays data about the selected Area.

Alarm Panel: Displays details of active alarms, pending alarms and system alarms. In addition, details on active and retained tracks are also displayed in separate tabs.

PPI Navigation Control

Home Position & Map Navigation

The Home Position icon is house-shaped and clicking it will return the PPI Map Display to the home view.

The arrows surrounding the home icon pans the PPI Display along the points of the compass, in small increments.

The zoom icons will zoom the PPI Display in and out, in small increments.

Display Preset Buttons

Each of the three numbered Display Preset buttons will save a PPI Map position and scale, by simply Right Clicking over the button when the map is in the desired spot:

When you Left Click that number again, it will return the map to that same position.

Video

The following video shows how to use the Display Preset Buttons:

Configuration Tree Icon

When you toggle the Configuration Tree icon highlighted below:

It will open or close the Configuration Tree:

This displays all of the configured entities in the system. The tree is organized into folders, allowing you to view and locate these entities. Clicking on the right facing arrows will expand the list. Clicking on the down facing arrows will hide the list.

Clicking on an entity, e.g. “Radar Area”, will hone the PPI to it’s particular area and display the entity on the PPI map, as in the example below:

Alarm Panel Icon

When you toggle the Alarm Panel icon:

It will open or close the Alarm Panel at the bottom of the screen:

Alert Overview

There is also an Alert Overview which will display the number of Live Alarms and System Alarms, if these have been enabled in your User Details settings:

Clicking on the alarm icon will focus on the Live Alarms or System Alarms in the Alarms Panel. In the example below, only the the Live Alarm icon has been enabled, and has been clicked, and so the focus is on Live Alarms:

Playback

The purpose of the Playback tab is to query, review, analyse, and compare all track, alarm, area and system data. The results can then be used for finding patterns of behaviour, for making data predictions, for extracting specific statistics, and as evidence of past incidents. Data results are presented in result tables as well as graphs for clear, visual data absorption and understanding.

Query Panel: Shows all the query options. One or more queries and their relevant filtering criteria can be configured in this panel.

PPI Navigation Control: Controls to help navigate around the map display, including pan, zoom and return to the origin.

Area Mini Control: Displays data about the selected Radar.

Track: Displays details of the selected track from the Track Query.

PPI Map Display: The primary map display that is used to show any relevant results from the queries. For example track query results can show where historical tracks have moved through the site or alarm results can show where alarms were triggered.

Timeline and Timescale: This provides a user-friendly way of selecting a suitable timer period for the query. All queries which are selected will be filtered based on the selected time period.

Results Panel: This shows the results for all the selected queries. Typically the result from each selected query will appear in a separate tab.

Alarm Dashboard

The purpose of the Alarm Dashboard is to give an overview of recent alarms at a glance, without having to utilise the Alarm Dashboard function. Clear, interactive graphs present alarm data ordered by rule, area and time, as well as displaying System Alarms. 

Time Period Panel: The default time period will be 24 hours, but a period of 48 or 72 hours can be selected. You can also export the data.

Rules: The rules which have been broken.

Areas: The areas where an alarm has been triggered.

Alarms by Time: This represents the spread of alarm frequency over time.

System Alarms: This represents the alarms caused by any system fault or failure over the time period selected (the default will be 24 hours).

Querying

It is possible to adjust the alarm results displayed in the Alarms by Time and System Alarms line graphs by 'deselecting' Rules and Areas, through clicking on their bars. This will remove those rules and or areas alarm data from the accumulated data displayed in the two line graphs, and could be useful if a scale is skewed by a particular rule's alarm count being far higher than any other. A 'deselected' rule or alarm is indicated by changing from opaque to translucent blue, as in the example below:

You can see the difference between the graphs, above and below by selecting the “Path” area in the screenshot below:

The exact number of alarms in each area can be identified by hovering the cursor over the bar graph:

The numbering alarms per specific hour can be identified by hovering the cursor over the points of the line graph:

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