Using IIoT Dashboard nodes¶

An event needs to be organized in Berlin. The event is a demo show on turbo engines of Siemens. It is required to design an event flow to integrate to the event management application.

Objective¶

To display the data of an asset for a date range.

Requirements¶

• A timestamp input
• IIoT date picker node
• IIoT asset list node
• IIoT aspect selector node
• IIoT TS chart node
• Message payload

Procedure¶

1. From the node palette, drag and drop the following nodes to the working area.

   • Inject node
   • IIoT date picker node
   • IIoT asset list node
   • IIoT aspect selector node
   • IIoT TS chart node
   • Debug node
   • Function node

2. Connect the nodes in a flow as shown below:

   

3. Double click on "inject" node to edit the properties. For more information, refer to Editing nodes.

4. Configure the tabs in groups:

   • IIoT date picker node
   • IIoT asset list node
   • IIoT aspect selector node
   • IIoT TS chart node
   • IIoT map

   To understand group and tabs configuration, refer to Dashboard working layouts.

5. Swap, shift and configure groups and tabs from the sidebar "Dashboard" window under "Layout" according to the requirements.

   

   For more information, refer to Dashboard layouts.

6. Save and execute the flow.

In Visual Flow Creator application, click and select "Open dashboard" to view the flow in Visual Flow Creator dashboard. A flow as designed is displayed in the dashboard:

Select an asset, an aspects and the time range. You will be the data analysis in the chart and the asset location:

Connect a time stamp and a message payload as shown below with the selected asset, aspect and date range as shown above:

Node flow design:

Flow in dashboard:

The required information will be displayed in the message payload: