Note: Since the initial setup and configuration of a Sedrix instance is (generally) carried out by Remolution Software GmbH or your system administrator, this topic is not mentioned here. The same applies to other topics such as logging, the use of function blocks to calculate derived variables (from directly measured data), the manual import and export of measurement data, etc. Also, unless explicitly mentioned, rights and privileges - which are very important for practical use - are not dealt with below in order to keep this section compact.
To avoid repetition, most of the description is merely the ‘bare necessities’! If necessary, please follow the links contained in this description to view the details required to implement the steps described.
Key Terms
ISome terms are used in this manual which have quite specific meanings within Sedrix. These are introduced and explained in more detail when relevant, but the explanations are not repeated throughout. As such, the terms which are deemed essential for an understanding of everything else will be quickly presented all together, right at the beginning. This creates so to speak an “overview” in order to facilitate starting work with Sedrix.
The very first term – “project” – should be particularly emphasised. In Sedrix, a project represents the “main administrative unit”. This means that everything else like folders, measuring points, devices, etc. (see below), which you create and configure while working with Sedrix, are always assigned to a certain project. Only one project is ever active at a time. The rights of a user that allow (or forbid) them to do all these things in Sedrix, along with other things described later, are also bound to the active project. Each Sedrix project “bundles” every sub-element together.
Each Sedrix project is also independent from any other Sedrix projects – in the same way as you usually divide your project-related work into different, separately processed construction or monitoring projects. With Sedrix projects, this is demonstrated in a practical way by the fact that the “components” of a project (measuring points, devices, folders) are bundled in a project folder.
Sedrix works according to projects.
Project: “Main administration unit” in Sedrix. Sedrix works according to projects. This means that everything else like folders, measuring points, devices etc. are always assigned to or contained within a project. Depending on the license, several projects can be created within Sedrix.
Assigned projects: A list of projects per user with which that user can work. A privileged user (see below) can precisely control which projects each user has access to (or not).
Current project: For interactive work with Sedrix, only one project is active at a time for each user. Before starting work on folders, measuring points, devices, etc. the desired project has to first be made the current project. Selecting a project as the current project (from the list of assigned projects, see above) is done in the Project overview, by simply clicking on the name of the desired project in the project list. Sedrix will then remember this selection, so that it is not necessary to reselect it when logging in each time.
Folder: A construction or monitoring project typically consists of subprojects, which in turn can also contain subprojects. SDC allows this hierarchical project structure to be mapped to an SDC project by creating sub-folders and sub-sub-folders etc. within the project folder. Folders can be nested: a folder can itself contain folders etc., like the folder structure in the file system of a computer. Folders thus work to structure a project. In addition to subfolders, folders can also contain measuring points.
Measuring point: “Administration unit for measuring instruments or their data” in Sedrix. Measuring points are created within folders, i.e. they are bound to folders.
Device: A measurement device, the data from which can be managed in Sedrix.
Device measuring point: Measuring point defined in the device software. A device measuring point and a measuring point in SDC are two different things (even if they can be linked, see “Assignment” below).
Device channel (Logger module): Describes a physical variable measured by a device. Is assigned to a device measuring point.
Geo point (Tachymeter module): Describes a point in three-dimensional space, the coordinates of which were measured by a tachymeter. Is assigned to a device measuring point.
Assignment: Sedrix object that binds/assigns a device or one of its geo points or channels to a Sedrix measuring point. An assignment creates a (measuring point) channel from a selected geo point (tachymeter module) or from a device channel (logger module).
Channel: A (measuring point) channel defined via an assignment whose data can either be displayed directly by means of an evaluation, or which can serve as the input of a function block.
Reference measurement: Measurement at a specified time, which serves as “zero measurement”, i.e. as a reference for all subsequent measurements.
Evaluation: Sedrix object, which in particular defines the display of measurement data, either as a table or in graphical form (as a diagram).
Rights: Sedrix differentiates between “folder access rights” ans “other rights”:
Folder access rights: The right to navigate to a specific folder and to view its contents
Other rights: These specify which activity may be carried out with a particular object or resource, e.g. whether a user can only read a measurement point – here the resource – or may also edit it – here examples of activities: Right = the combination of object / resource and activity. For details, especially regarding the assignment of these rights, see User Group Properties.
Privileged user: : User with the special role “Super-Administrator” or “Administrator”. A user in the role “Super-Administrator” has more or less unlimited rights.
Log In and Log Out
To log in to your Sedrix, you will need
the name or Internet address of your Sedrix - a character string such as <company>.smartdata.center
the user’s login data, consisting of username and password
This information will have been given to you by your sales partner / system administrator.
Logging in
Open a browser.
Enter the name of your Sedrix in the address bar of the browser and request the website.
The Sedrix login screen will open in the browser window. Enter your username and your password to authenticate yourself to the site, and then click “Log in”.
If these credentials are known to Sedrix, you will be logged in, and instead of the login screen the start view of your Sedrix will be displayed in the browser.
You can also see by the (display) name of the user displayed in the top right-hand corner of the horizontal menu bar that you are now successfully logged in.
Important: Passwords are case-sensitive in Sedrix (as usual). When entering your password, pay attention to the correct spelling, and in particular to whether caps lock is on. If necessary, contact your sales partner or system administrator to find out your login details!
Note: The very first login from one computer always takes somewhat longer than all subsequent logins, as some resources on the Sedrix website only need to be loaded by your browser the first time – they then remain in the browser cache (a kind of buffer for Internet pages that is used to minimize the amount of data being transferred when a page is opened). The same applies when logging in after having cleared the browser cache, or after Sedrix has been updated, because in that case the cached files will be replaced by newer versions.
Logging out
Click on the (display) name of the user in the upper right corner of the horizontal menu bar
Select the command “Log out” in the now opened context menu
Set Up Project
As mentioned in the introduction, Sedrux works according to projects, which means that the first thing to do when working with Sedrix is to create a project. Usually your sales partner / system administrator will already have created at least one initial project for you and assigned it to your user(s) (see Assigned Projects), so that these user(s) have access to it.
To continue setting up this project, you can change the project name as required, add a company logo, adjust the language and time zone etc, see Project Properties . This can only be done if you have the appropriate rights.
Proceed as follows to enter the project Edit mode:
Open the project overview by clicking on the Projects icon in the menu (or the “Projects” link in the main menu)
Click on the Edit button in the row containing the project you wish to edit
Enter the desired information in the Edit view that now opens
In the dialog that opens, enter at least a name for the new project under Project name in the “General” tab - this is the only mandatory entry here. The name must be unique (i.e. it must not have already been assigned as a project name).
Enter further information or make other changes as necessary
Click on “Save” to create the project
You can change or set the project’s properties at any time by re-opening the Edit mode.
Important: Do not forget to assign the newly created project to the users who will be working with it, by selecting the corresponding checbox in their user properties under “Assigned Projects”. See Create users.
Further essential steps for setting up a project, especially concerning creating subfolders to map the structure of your (construction or monitoring) project in Sedrix and defining measuring points within this folder structure are outlined in the following sections.
Create Folder Structure and Project Tree
Setting up a project also involves creating a suitable folder structure, a folder hierarchy. This maps the construction or monitoring project that the Sedrix project represents, and allows the subsequent creation of measuring points within these subfolders. Of course, measuring points can also be created directly in the project folder, which can be a satisfying approach for smaller projects, but which may sooner or later turn out to be inadequate for more complex projects.
In order to set up this folder structure, you first need to switch to the project you want to work with – i.e. make it the “current project”. To do this, click on the desired project in the project overview so that it is highlighted in blue. If you have just created your (first) project, it will already be selected as the current project.
Proceed as follows to create a new folder:
Click on the “hamburger button” in the menu to reach the main menu, and then click on the project folder (folder symbol with the name of the project). The folder view of the project folder is displayed.
Click on the “Folder” tab in the data area and then on “Click here to create a new folder” (this command is only displayed if the folder does not yet contain any subfolders), or click the “+” icon.
In the Create view that appears, enter the desired information. In particular, enter a name for the folder that is being created. Important: This name must be uniquewithin the folder in which the folder is being created – i.e. in the parent folder! It is not possible to create two folders with the same name on one hierarchy level. However, it is possible (although rarely useful/helpful) to assign the same name to folders on different hierarchy levels.
Finally click on “Save” to create the folder.
In order to create (sub) folders within the folder that was created as described above, first click on the name of the folder to reach its folder view, and repeat the process described above until the desired folder hierarchy has been created. You can of course add more folders later. It is also possible to subsequently move a folder into another parent folder (see Project Properties for the corresponding project setting).
Within the project structure that has been created as described here, the measuring pointsare then created in Sedrix to form the actual “management unit for measuring instruments or their data”. For more details, see the following section.
Folders and subfolders as well as the measuring points created within them from the project tree, which can be seen in the main menu.
Create Measuring Points
Measuring points are created within folders, which means that they are bound to folders. The following is based on the assumption that you have already set up a suitable folder hierarchy, as described in the previous section, and that suitable locations are therefore available within that structure to place the measuring points you create.
Proceed as follows to create a new measuring point:
In the project tree, select the folder or subfolder in which you would like to create a measuring point.
Click on the “Add” icon under “Measuring points” in the data area of the folder view. A small dropdown menu with the available measuring point types is displayed (content depends on the modules attached to your Sedrix licence).
Select the type of measuring point you would like to create. The “New measuring point” view for that type is displayed.
Under “General” in the “Settings” tab, enter a name for the measuring point you are creating. Important: this name must be unique within the project!
Important: When creating a new measuring point, you can at first only make changes in the “Settings” tab. Information can only be entered in the other tabs once the measuring point has been saved, as changing those properties can only be done within an existing measuring point. This is also indicated by an information text.
As the properties to be entered in each case depend on the selected measuring point type, please refer to the corresponding detailed descriptions in the subsections of Measuring point properties for details.
Create User Accounts
At least one user account (or simply “user”) will have already been created for you by your sales partner / system administrator. In order for others to work with Sedrix, they will also need their own user account and login details - username and password- with which they can log into Sedrix.
The following information is required for each user:
Name and login details
Name: Text field to enter the user’s (real) name. This may contain spaces, and as such the employee’s first and surname can be entered. This name will be displayed in the top right of the Sedrix interface when the user is logged in.
Login details
Username: Text field to enter the username. This is the name that the user will enter in order to log in! The username entered here cannot be changed later (the user’s real name can however be changed, see above).
Password: Text field to enter the password. Please enter a suitably long character string. We recommend using a password generator to create a strong password!
After saving the new user for the first time, further information can then be entered, such as the user’s email address (required), company name, mobile telephone number etc. This information can also be changed later if required.
Moreover projects must be assigned to the user, so that the user can work with those projects:
Assigned projects
Assigned projects: List of projects created within Sedrix with checkboxes. Select the projects that the user should be able to access.
For more details see the section on User Management. Two points relating to users that are important for working with Sedrix will however be emphasized here, namely user roles and rights. See the following two sections.
User Roles
Recognizable from many multi-user operating systems, Sedrix also has both normal users with defined or even restricted rights (as explained in the following) and users with privileges with extended rights, the so-called super-administrators and administrators. The former are intended for actually working with Sedrix, the latter for configuration tasks.
In addition to the “right” to log in to Sedrix, a normal or user without privileges initially has very limited rights. Further rights can however be given to the user as necessary. This is done by defining a user group to which the user is assigned (see User Group Properties for details on assigning rights).
Add and Assign Devices
Add a device in Sedrix
Adding devices in Sedrix or configuring them further is done via Device Management (or automatically). Due to the variety of device types supported by Sedrix, each with a different configuration, please refer to the detailed sections in the Add Devices section.
Assign a device to a measuring point
In order to analyze, process and display a device’s measured values (either graphically or in table form), the device must first be linked to a measuring point. This is done by creating an assignment.
In order to use Sedrix to display the measurement data collected by measuring devices, so-called evaluations must be created within the measuring point with which the device is associated i.e. for which assignments have been created. Sedrix allows data to be displayed in various forms, in particularly in tables and graphics, i.e. as diagrams. These representations of data are displayed in the respective measuring point view.
For example, proceed as follows to display the data or a logger device as a time-value diagram:
Open the Edit mode of the measuring point by carrying out the “Edit” command in the context menu (accessible by clicking on the name of the measuring point below the measuring point symbol in the top right).
Navigate to the “Evaluations” tab and click on the Add button in the bottom left.
In the context menu that opens, select the type of new evaluation. In this example, this is “Diagram”.
An input mask appears for the new diagram evaluation being created, where you can configure it according to your requirement:
Assign a suitable name for the evaluation under “Heading” This name will be displayed in the measuring point view above the new diagram when the data is displayed.
Assign a suitable name for the y-axis under “Title y-axis”, for example the name of the variable(s) being displayed (optional; for time-value diagrams the title of the x or time axis is set automatically, so there is no input field for this here).
In each of the dropdown menus “Channel 1” to “Channel 10” select one of the available measuring point channels (see Assignments). For each of the channels selected here, a curve is drawn when the diagram is displayed (a different color for each curve).
For more configuration options see the detailed descriptions in the Time-Value Diagram section.
Click on “Save” in the bottom left to save your settings.
Now switch back to the display mode, i.e. to the measuring point view of the measuring point, to display the diagram with the curves per channels.
If necessary, adjust the time period to be displayed via SmartFilter.
You can also define a table evaluation in the same way.
Further details on displaying measurement data can be found in the Evaluations section.
Configure Alerting
The “Alerting” function allows for certain critical conditions to trigger alerts, such as when previously set threshold values are exceeded (“Measured values” alert trigger) or a long period of time between receiving device measurement data (“Device is offline”; Online status alert trigger). If desired, automatic notifications related to the alert can also be sent to previously set users or user groupsvia email and/or SMS. It is possible to set three different levels of alert per alert definition which use the alert criteria with different levels of “sensitivity”. This means you can define a pre-alert, alert and main alert:
Pre-alerts determine critical states that are still (±) harmless
Alerts determine critical states
Main alerts determine very critical states
For further details on the criteria that can be used to define such critical states, as well as possible reactions by the user such as acknowledgement, and by Sedrix by sending escalation notifications if an acknowledgement is not made, see the corresponding subsections in the Alerting section.
To set up alerting for measured values, for example, you first need to create “measured values alert trigger” alert definition, in which you will set the conditions that, if exceeded, will trigger the alert. You will also set whether alert notifications should be sent, and if so to which recipients.
This alert definition is then applied to the measuring point channel that contains the measured values you wish to monitor.
If the incoming measured values in the monitored channel exceed the limits specified in the alert definition at any time during operation, this is automatically recognised by Sedrix and an alert is triggered. If alert messages are to be sent, the relevant users are automatically informed of the critical state that has just occurred.
Alerts can moreover be viewed at any time in various places within Sedrix, particularly, in the case of measured value alerts, directly in a diagram evaluation along with the measured values. More details see View Triggered Alerts.
For more details on the alerting function, see the Alerting section.
This brief outline will now be illustrated in three examples.
This section assumes that the alerting function is licensed for your Sedrix and that the user you are logged in as has the necessary rights to set up alerting etc., without going into these requirements in detail. For details, see the Alerting section.
Example 1: Set up alerting for measured values
Proceed as follows to set up measured values alerting for one of the measuring point channels selected in Display measurement data for diagram evaluation.
Create an alert definition
In the menu click on the alert definitions button (or in the main menu click on the “Alert Definitions” entry to show the overview of all alert definitions).
Click on the “Add” symbol on the right hand side above the table.
In the context menu that now opens, select the type of alert definition - in this example this is “Measured values alerting”.
Under “Name” in the “General” tab, enter a name for the new alert definition. This name is used as a reference for the alert definition when it is assigned to the channel being monitored.
Under “Unit” enter a compatible unit for the channel being monitored.
Click on “Save” to create the alert definition.
Now re-open the alert definition you have just created to set the alerting criteria.
If needed modify the labels for each alert level (or leave them as the default labels: tab name, or alert level).
Under Low and High enter the lower and upper threshold values.
Mark the respective checkboxes to activate the threshold values (by removing the check, a threshold value can be (temporarily) deactivated, without having to delete the whole setting).
If needed add a hysteresis value, and the minimum required number of threshold value violations.
Finally click on “Save” to save your changes.
Important: If you wish to assign lower and upper limits for more than one alert level ("Pre-alert", "Alert" or "Main alert"), make sure that these limits are nested correctly: The pre-alert limits "bracket" the range of "good measured values", the alert limits represent the "middle bracket" around the pre-alert limits, and finally the main alert limits represent the "outer bracket" around the alert limits.
In either the “Input channels” or “Output channels” tab, open the Edit mode of the channel which contains the measured values you wish to monitor.
In the dropdown menu in the “Alerting” double column, in the “Measured value” secondary column, select the desired alert definition.
Click on to close the channel edit mode. This will save the setting; instead of the dropdown menu the name of the selected alert definition will now be displayed. If you wish to discard your changes, you can leave the channel edit mode by clicking on , in which case nothing will be saved.
View triggered alerts
Open the measuring point view of the tachymeter or data logger measuring point that contains the alerts you wish to view.
Carry out the “Alerts” command in the context menu.
The view that now opens contains this measuring point’s alert table, which shows a row for each alert that has occurred along with the alert level, the start and end times, sent notifications and any successful confirmations, if applicable.
Setting up alerting to monitor a measurement device is done very similarly as in example 1, the only difference being that you should create an “Online status alerting” alert definition.
Create an alert definition
Under “Name” in the “General” tab, enter a name for the new alert definition, and select a suitable unit under “Unit” for the “Offline time period”. Then save the alert definition and re-open it to edit it. Set the “Offline time period” under “Threshold” - that is, the length of time before a device is regarded as “offline” if it has not sent data within that time period - in the previously selected unit. Save the alert definition again.
Alternatively, you can use the alert definition of this type, called "Standard device monitoring", that is automatically created with every new project (adjust its configuration accordingly if necessary).
Open the Edit mode of the device whose online status is to be monitored.
In the "Device monitoring" tab, select the desired alert definition of this type from the "Alert definition for determining the online status" drop-down menu.
Exit the device Edit mode by clicking on “Save”.
View triggered alerts
Open the Device Overview (if necessary, make the project in which the device is active the current project).
Click on the icon at the end of the row of the device with the alerts you want to view (if required, scroll horizontally to see the end of the row). If you have already opened the device view (Logger; for the same views of the other device types, see the corresponding sub-sections under Device Types) of the device with the alerts you want to see, you can alternatively execute the "Alerts" command in the context menu.
The view that opens contains the Alert table for this device. There is a row for every alert that has occurred, along with the alert level, the start and end times as well as notifications that have been sent and any confirmations.
Setting up alerting to monitor a measurement device is done very similarly as in example 1, the only difference being that you should create an “Seismic events alerting” alert definition.
Create an alert definition Under “Name” in the “General” tab, enter a name for the new alert definition. Then save the alert definition and re-open it to edit it. Under “Limit” enter a percentage in relation to the threshold value of the underlying vibration norm.
Carry out the “Alerts” command in the context menu.
The view that opens contains the Alert table for this measuring point. There is a row for every alert that has occurred, along with the alert level, the start and end times as well as notifications that have been sent and any confirmations.
