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Using the SensMitWeb web-service Quick Start Guide First open up your

ask you to put in your personal information, fill in everything.

will be the one paying to use it, select Mesh Owner.

your node so you can see it under the Map tab.

1 Using the SensMitWeb web-service Quick Start Guide First open up your internet browser (Chrome is recommended) and head to The next screen will ask you to put in your personal information, fill in everything. As you scroll down you will then get this option: If you own the mesh and will be the one paying to use it, select Mesh Owner. This will then open further options: Put in the Base ID and PIN like it shows on your device. When logged in go to: then input your credit card information. Click Subscribe Now down at the bottom, if you see it. Click on the name of the SensMit Nodes to change its description to whatever you like. Click on the square w/pen icon under Tools to edit the physical location of your node so you can see it under the Map tab. Under the Map tab, hover your mouse over the sensor icons for their current reading click the triangle for node status and then the node name (or click node name on the left column) to access sensor charts. The Blue triangle indicates a record within 4 hours. Yellow indicates within 8 hours and Red longer than 8 hours.

2 Using the SensMitWeb web-service Congratulations on setting up and installing your first SensMit (or IRROmesh) mesh. Before you get online you first want to ensure that you have your Base node s ID number and pin number written down. You can find this information directly on the device; see picture below. You may also want to write the ID numbers of the other nodes that you have set up in your field as those ID numbers will be what you see when your SensMit mesh has been set up on the SensMitWeb service. Once you have the information you need open up your web browser; Chrome is preferred (or Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, etc.) then go to which will take you to the Log-in page (see over). 1 P a g e

If this is the first time you have seen this screen then you will need to create an account, by clicking on Activate your SensMit Web account here near the bottom of the dialogue box.

3 If this is the first time you have seen this screen then you will need to create an account, by clicking on Activate your SensMit Web account here near the bottom of the dialogue box. If you have registered and made an account before, enter your and password. You can also click the lower links to access the SensMit Path software, manuals and other info related to the web-service. If you are using the PC Link then you will need to click on Downloads and then download and install the SensMit Path software (Don t worry there s a guide in the Downloads section for the SensMit Path software too). Activating a SensMitWeb Account: To view your data via the SensMitWeb service you must sign into your account. There is a one month free trial per mesh for Mesh Owners, and no charge for Mesh Viewers. Once you click on the Activate your SensMit Web account here link, (over) 2 P a g e

4 You will then see: Fill in the fields, create your password, and scroll down to the next area of the log-in page. There you will input your address and which type of user you are. 3 P a g e

5 You are either: 1. A Mesh Owner - Someone who has bought SensMit or IRROmesh hardware and is registering for an account that enables you to have full control of your mesh; 2. Or a Mesh Viewer - you are someone who is receiving the right to view the data of one or more meshes owned by others, but you will have no ability to control any of the mesh data, information formats, or account and payment settings. Note: If you want to set up a Mesh Viewer account and not a Mesh Owner account, please see the SensMitWeb Manual for Mesh Viewers in our Resources section at: 4 P a g e

6 Scroll down further to see the Product Registration page. This page only relates to Mesh Owners not Mesh Viewers. The Mesh ID is the first 8 characters of the Base unit s ID (remember you wrote this down in the first step). They are in hexadecimal format, so include only the numbers 0 to 9, and the letters from A through F. Do not input any other letters from the alphabet. The Mesh PIN is the last 4 characters of the Base unit s ID. These are also in hex. If you are using the modem gateway to send data to SensMitWeb, you ll need to tell us what your SIM card or MEID number is. This number is printed on the SIM or modem card that you received with the modem gateway. This card belongs to your hardware provider we pay the Cell Provider s bill for your modem data from the money you pay for the use of the web-service. 5 P a g e

7 Subscription Settings When the end of your one month free trial approaches, you will be asked to supply a credit card number and subscribe for the monthly service. The service terms are described here. Once you have subscribed, you can review your subscriptions at any time by pressing the My Subscriptions button at the top left of the SensMit page. You can suspend your subscription at any time without penalty. If you suspend, be sure to gather and store your data using the Export Mesh Data function on the Utilities page. If you are using a SIM for your cell modem, you will need to restart your service within 6 months, or pay your provider for a new SIM card. During times when your service is suspended, remove your Base from your mesh. If you don t, the Base will store almost 6 months of full mesh data. When you restart your service, all that data will be sent to SensMitWeb. If that happens, you will be charged for the time represented by the data that is sent up. 6 P a g e

8 If you do not put in your credit card information prior to the end of the trial period, your account will become suspended. Your account may also become suspended if your SIM card expires. When you put in the new SIM card (Under the Utilities Tab) you will need to come back to the Subscription Settings section to re-subscribe. To reactivate your account all you have to do is put in your credit card information (if the information is not there or incorrect) then under SensMit Web Subscription Plans hit the Subscribe Now button as shown below. If you do not have the Subscribe Now button then you just have to update your credit card information, and the Subscription Plan section should look similar to the image below: 7 P a g e

SensMit Page Once you have entered into the site through the log-in process and you will arrive at the SensMit Page. The ID of your mesh is the ID of the Base unit of your mesh.

9 SensMit Page Once you have entered into the site through the log-in process and you will arrive at the SensMit Page. The ID of your mesh is the ID of the Base unit of your mesh. The first time you see your mesh, you will not yet have entered the co-ordinates of the nodes (optional), and so the page will default to the tab shown called SensMit. Once the co-ordinates have been entered, the page first defaults to the Map tab. This page gives the status of your mesh. A Feedback tab on the right side of the display lets you tell us what you think, or would like to see changed on the site. The winking eye right beside the SensMits Status enables you to globally hide/unhide any nodes you don t normally wish to see. Clicking the far right eye at each node choses it to be not shown. Each node s hex ID is shown, along with a Description (Owners can set Description by clicking on the box in this column), and Status report (Active, Idle, Inactive). Mouse over Good to see when this node last reported data this is not necessarily the time stamp of the last recorded data point for that node! The last column shows some tool icons; Edit (square with pen), Configure Alarms (Bell icon) and Diagnostics (leaf) and the Hide Eye. See descriptions of Edit, Configure Alarm and Diagnostics below. Clicking on the SensMit node in question on the left-side-bar (BLOCK 1 etc ) brings up the charts that show its sensor data. Use the back browser arrow, or click back on the mesh name (i.e. DEMO_RON) on the left side bar to get back to the SensMit page. 8 P a g e

You can also generate a map icon for your node in any false location and then drag/slide it to where you want it on the map instead of having to enter a GPS coordinate.

10 Edit SensMit Tool Here you can input the GPS co-ordinates of your nodes or give individual sensors nicknames which will appear on the charts. If you are online and at your field node, you can click on Use my current location to generate a map icon for this node. You can also generate a map icon for your node in any false location and then drag/slide it to where you want it on the map instead of having to enter a GPS coordinate. The tab Boundary Values allows you to set a range of numbers for each sensor such as moisture or temperature. The nodes will display a different colour based upon the values that you set as the bottom of the range and the top of the range. If the sensors are reading number outside of the range it will be easier to tell what that sensor is reading. Sensors like Tip (a counter of tip events) and Switch (is it on/off) are absolutes so boundaries are less relevant. 9 P a g e

11 The bell icon under Tools on the SensMit tab is the Configure Alarm button that allows you to set alerts related to sensor readings. When an alarm condition is triggered the site will automatically you. Alarms can be set for a variety of event arguments. From the SensMit page, the leaf-shaped Utility Tool takes you right to the utilities chart below. You can also reach this chart by clicking on the node in question on the left panel. Then select Diagnostics. Voltage relates to the charge level of the node and varies during the day; Power relates to the voltage the device is operating at and should be stable unless Voltage gets very low. You can also see a daily spike in Power; click on this (when viewing 3 days or less) and divide the value shown by two to get your SensMit s FirmWare version. Click on the Mesh name (in this case DEMO_RON see image below) to get back to the previous page. See the FAQ here for more information on interpreting charts and diagnostics information. Persistent Data features of SensMit ensure that each node records all data that it has not yet been able to send, and then when communication is re-established sends on the data. So it is common for a node to say Inactive early in the morning, and then back-fill its data and show as Active later in the day. And of course, if that node is a routing node, all nodes that can report only through it will be in the same state. 10 P a g e

12 Map Tab Once you have defined the co-ordinates of the nodes using the Edit SensMit Tool, a map will be created like the one pictured below. This map will then become the default page when you first log in to SensMitWeb. You can select the background you wish to view it over with Select a Map Style. Clicking on the little gear shaped icon in the top right corner of the map will provide you with the option of changing the background. Some background types may not be available for the region your mesh is installed in. A Good: blue triangle indicates that records have been received from that SensMit within the last 4 hours; Idle means within the past 8 hours and. Inactive means it has been longer than 8 hours since information from this SensMit has been received. Keep in mind that nodes can get lost from time to time due to signal path blockages, nodes installed at the far end of their range, changing weather and radio frequency noise environments etc Radio signals are by their nature intermittent. 11 P a g e

Click on any sensor miniimage on the map to set its Nickname, location or its boundary value.

13 The Map icons are now Smart Icons. If you hover your mouse over the sensor icons surrounding the triangle you can see what the last readings were for each of those sensors. Click on any sensor miniimage on the map to set its Nickname, location or its boundary value. If you click on the blue Edit SensMit Location button down at the bottom of the map you can easily drag your SensMits around the map without having to locate them one at a time. Moving your SensMits in this map screen allows you to tile the SensMits any way or anywhere you want to. 12 P a g e

14 By clicking on the Configure button a dialogue box pops up that lets you set which sensors are visible and which map type you want to use. You can see colour ranges for each sensor s Boundary Limits and decide which sensors you normally want to see. Highlight sensors reading outside of Normal. 13 P a g e

The Utilities Tab lets you see a snapshot of all the node s latest sensor readings, when each node last reported (including the Base and Monitor (another name for the Gateway device)), and gives

15 The Utilities Tab lets you see a snapshot of all the node s latest sensor readings, when each node last reported (including the Base and Monitor (another name for the Gateway device)), and gives diagnostic tools that your service provider can use to assess what is happening in your mesh if you need support. Note that you can export data from your mesh in CSV format using the Export Mesh Data button. You can also upload CSV data (from say Irrometer s WaterGraph program using the Upload CSV Data button. If you are using a modem gateway, and you need to enter a new SIM card (in cases where the account has been suspended long enough for the old SIM to be cancelled by the service provider) or MEID number, use the Update SIM Card ID button. We need to know your SIM card or MEID number to provide modem gateway service. 14 P a g e

16 After you put in a new SIM Card number you will need to return to the My Subscriptions Page (top left) to click on the Subscribe Now button otherwise your account will continue to be suspended. Sharing Tab As a Mesh Owner, you can choose to share your mesh with one or more users called Mesh Viewers, but they will need to sign up for a free SensMitWeb account and log-in before you can share your mesh with them. Input their address and designate the level of access you wish to give. Once they have been added you can manage their current user permissions by changing their access to either View-Only or Write. You can share each of your meshes with up to three Mesh Viewers for free. Each additional Mesh Viewer of a given mesh will generate an additional charge to you of $10/month. The Diagnostics button beside the +Add Mesh button is only available to your support provider (SensMit FW version 2.40 and higher). They can use additional information to analyze the performance of your mesh, the health of the nodes in it and a host of other data points. Over time this function will be simplified and elaborated, and be made available to all users. 15 P a g e

17 The Mesh Analyzer is a powerful SensMitWeb tool that you access via the button on the top right of the SensMit page. Use this Tool to compare readings of the same sensor(s) and sensor families connected to different SensMits within one mesh. Select the SensMits to be included in the comparison on the left sidebar. You can add annotations that will be there when next you or your Mesh Viewer look at the chart, and you can zoom and pan the chart. Push the Back to Dashboard button (top right corner) to return to the SensMit page. Add Mesh Tab Once you own one mesh, you do not need to re-register to add new meshes you are Mesh Owner of. Up in the top right corner click on the Add Mesh button to connect new meshes to your account. 16 P a g e

18 Data Charts Moisture and Temperature Tabs. This chart is the heart of the SensMit application (To get into the Data Charts either click on the SensMit node you want to look at on the left or click on View SensMit Diagnostics on a specific node under the SensMit Tab). Each data point represents a sensor reading. When the mesh is fully awake, this reading is updated in real time (PC-Link and Modem Gateways only) every 30 minutes. During low light periods, the mesh will be asleep and will report the ½ hourly data points once per hour so at say 20:00 if it is low light, the data for 20:00 and 19:30 will be reported to the website. Data upload times are staggered to optimize date volume management at the website intake portal, so your data from 20:00 may not reach the website until as late as 20:15. The Moisture tab shows 5 sensors that you can toggle on and off by clicking on the coloured box beside Selected Sensor. You can choose the time and date range from a pull-down menu. You can zoom inside the chart with your mouse wheel, and can also hover over the two axis and use your mouse wheel to change the scale. Irrigation relates to an Irrigation Switch sensor. When an irrigation event takes place, a shaded area as built in the background of the chart, related to the actual time the event started and stopped. The event may report with all the rest of the data on the hour or ½ hour, but the chart will show the actual minute that irrigation switch closed (started) and opened (stopped). So it may happen that an irrigation event has stopped before the data gets reported, yet appear to be ongoing. Once the data is next reported, the correct time of the end of the irrigation event is charted. 17 P a g e

Rainfall relates to a conventional Tipping Bucket a bar graph appears in the chart, again at the time the tips occurred even if reported only on the ½ hour.

19 Rainfall relates to a conventional Tipping Bucket a bar graph appears in the chart, again at the time the tips occurred even if reported only on the ½ hour. Hovering over the bar chart will result in a number popping up related to the number of tips. A facility to create reports of Switch and Tip events is being built for the web service. Moisture (the three blue-shaded boxes) relates to the readings of the moisture sensors. In this case, nicknames have been assigned to each sensor form the Edit SensMit Tool. The vertical axis is in centibars. You can use the pull down menu to set a different top level. A Moisture Sensor Guide can be clicked. It takes you to a link that exposes data related to the use of Irrometer s WaterMark sensors. Filter outliers lets you remove errant readings occasionally needed after lightning events. Wet Up lets you invert the chart the convention for viewing soil water tension data. Use the diskette icon to Export Sensor Data in CSV format. The printer icon lets you Print Chart. A Full Screen feature is also available. Temperature Tab This chart has all the features of the Moisture Tab, but reports the Soil Temperature sensor reading (in this case given a nickname of 8, and the Internal Temperature of the SensMit device itself. As each 18 P a g e

20 SensMit is in effect a greenhouse, this temperature spikes during sunny weather, and delivers accurate air temperatures only at night and after the device has cooled to the ambient air temperature. Still having trouble? Make sure to check our Frequently Asked Questions page to see if any problems you are having are addressed there. There are also more manuals and guides available in the Resources and Downloads section of our website. If you are having trouble with the devices themselves or connecting them to the internet, then please contact Irrometer s Tech support at techsupport@irrometer.com If you have billing enquiries about the SensMit Web Service or you need to upgrade or suspend your SensMitWeb account then contact us through our support page at 19 P a g e

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