Learn everything you need to know about setting up alarms and editing, deleting or viewing the settings per sensor in RmoniWeb.

Alarm configuration

The RmoniWeb platform has several menu-items that are dedicated for our temperature monitoring functionality. Navigate to Sensors and then to Alarm configuration. All configured alarms are shown in this overview. The red / green dot indicates whether the alarm configuration is active (green dot) or inactive (red dot). Two items will be explained below: 

1. Alarm configuration
2. Alarm settings per sensor

1. Alarm configuration

All already created alarm configurations are shown in this overview. Select a configuration to see more information about the configuration on the right side of the screen: 

• Alarm settings
  The configured alarm settings are shown here.
   
• Alarm limits
  The alarm limit is shown here.
   
• Message
  The message that will be sent when a sensor goes in to alarm is shown here.
   
• Recipients
  The recipient(s) and destination(type) that will receive an alarm are shown here.
   
• Number of linked sensors
   The total number of linked sensors to this alarm profile are shown here.

Click on the button Add profile to create a new alarm profile. Creating an alarm profile consists out of four steps:

1. Alarm settings
2. Alarm limits
3. Messages
4. Recipients

1. Alarm settings

The first step consists out of selecting the alarm settings. The following information is obligated:

• Profile name
  Enter the name of the profile. This is shown in the alarm configuration overview and also in the Alarms overview.
   
• Organizational unit
  Select an organizational unit. This steps determines which sensors can be linked to the alarm profile.
   
• Type
   Choose between a measurement alarm or system alarm. 
  • Measurement alarm - A measurement alarm is used to check whether the measured value does not exceed the set alarm value. 
  • System alarm - A system alarm is used to check whether there is an invalid measurement, a sensor goes offline, the battery is low and/or if there is low signal strength.
     
• Sensor type
  This option is only shown when Measurement alarm is selected. The sensor type (E.g. temperature) can be selected here.
   
• Delay
  Select a delay if necessary. This is usually used to prevent an alarm from being triggered as soon as a cooler/freezer goes in to defrost mode.
   
• Mode 
  This setting determines when an alarm notification is sent. This option is only shown when Measurement alarm is selected. There are three options:
  • Always: Each measurement will cause an alarm notification
  • Once: Only one notification will be send per alarm (please note, all cascade recipients will receive one notification)
  • One out of five: Get an alarm after every fifth measured alarm value. This option is only shown when the cascade functionality is disabled in the account.
     
• Level
  Determine the level of the alarm. This can be a warning (less important) or an alarm.
   
• Confirm when out of alarm
   Check this box to receive a message when the sensor(s) go(es) out of alarm.

2. Alarm limit

The second step consist out of selecting the alarm limit. Based on the choice of Type in the first step, the pages shows different options:

• Measurement alarm
   While entering the alarm limit for a measurement alarm, there are a few options:
  • Value between
  • Value outside
  • Value smaller
  • Value smaller or equal
  • Value greater
  • Value greater or equal
     
• System alarm
   While entering the alarm limit for a system alarm, there are a few options:
  • Alarm on invalid measurement
  • Alarm when a sensor is offline
  • Alarm on low battery percentage (enter the battery percentage)
  • Alarm on low signal strength (enter the signal strength)
    • dBm 0 to -40: Amazing
    • dBm -40 to -60: Very good
    • dBm -60 to -70: Acceptable
    • dBm -70 to -75: Not good
    • dBm < -70 : Bad

3. Messages

The third step consists out of selecting the message content. There are three options:

• Maximum number of messages
  This determines the maximum number of messages you want to receive for an alarm. Please note that all recipients are counted. So, if the maximum number of messages is set to 10 and there are 5 recipients, each recipient will receive 2 messages.
   
• Subject
  Enter the subject. Use text and/or add one or several labels. These labels will be entered automatically in the messages based on the sensor the alarm/message is for.
   
• Message
  Enter the message. Use text and/or add one or several labels. These labels will be entered automatically in the messages based on the sensor the alarm/message is for.

• Labels
  Labels are used to created relevant messages. The labels are automatically filled with the related information as soon as a message is sent (E.g. the label Alias shows the name of the sensor that goes in alarm). Every label has it own meaning that will be displayed in the message once it has been selected. These are the labels that can be selected:

• Alarm value - The set alarm value, based on the alarm profile which triggered the alarm
• Value -  The recorded measurement of the sensor
• Date message - The date of the message sent (per message)
• Time message - The time of the message sent (per message) 
• MAC adress - MAC adress of the sensor
• Alias - The name of the sensor
• Organizational unit - The organizational unit to which the sensor is attached 
• Alarm trigger - This shows whether the sensor goes in alarm or out of alarm
• Unique id - A uniquely generated ID based on Alarm ID and time stamp
• Min, max - The min. and max. measured values of the sensor within the alarm period

4. Recipients

The fourth and last step consists out of selecting recipients. This is optional, the alarm profile can be saved right away. Recipients can be added by using the Add recipients button. A pop-up will be shown and one or more recipients can be selected. In this pop-up is also shown what the recipient type and destination is.  Press Save to save the alarm profile.

As soon as an alarm profile is created, sensor can be added. Select the alarm profile and at the right side of the screen some additional information will be shown. Select Add sensors. All available sensors (based on the type, sensor type and organizational unit) are shown here. Select one or more sensors and click on Save to link the sensors to the profile.

The button Actions enables users to:

• Edit the alarm profile
• Deactivate the alarm profile
• Delete the alarm profile

Cascade

An alarm cascade will send the alarm message to recipient 1 first. The first recipient should acknowledge the alarm within 15 minutes. If not, the alarm will be sent to recipient 2. Again, if not acknowledged within 15 minutes, it goes to recipient 3, and so forth. When the cascade reaches the highest number without acknowledgement, depending in the settings two different things will happen:

• Mode is set to 'once': The cascade stops after all recipients received a message
• Mode is set to 'always': The cascade continues to cycle until:
  • Somebody acknowledges the alarm
  • The maximum number of messages is reached

2. Alarm settings per sensor

The Alarm settings per sensor overview shows all sensors the user may see. Per sensor the organizational unit and alarm profile is shown. On each of these option can be filtered. Each sensors can be expanded and the configured alarm profile is shown. 

As soon as a sensor is expanded, the alarm profile, type and configured value are shown. The alarm profile can be deleted from here as well.