Road Editor
The Road Editor as part of ARM, it is used for initial setup and maintenance of TMS.13 series detectors on site. The direction of detection
and settings for the location of the detector relative to the road must be set. It will allow device's proper operation.
The received data must be associated by the detector with lanes, vehicle classes and conditional detection zones.
The Road Editor allows you to configure all parameters in a convenient graphical interface. In this case, all detector settings can be written to the memory of the selected detector and read from the detector’s memory for reconfiguration.
Road Editor WebUI in ARM system
The web user interface (WebUI) of the Road Editor in the engineer's workstation includes:
- Top panel
- Graphical user interface (GUI)
- Information panel
- Side menu (control panel and control blocks)
- Data monitoring block
- Timeline
Top panel
A detailed description of the Top panel items can be found in Base module section.
Graphical user interface
On the central part of the Road Editor a block is located. It enables to set the visual adjustment, and control of entered parameters.
The graphical interface is presented in the form of a schematic image of the road on the coordinate plane, in which the following can be configured: the number of lanes, direction, detection zones, etc.
When you hover the mouse cursor over the zones, a pop-up window appears with information about the detection zone:
- Zone index in the detector
- Lane index in the detector
- Zone length
- Zone width
- Zone start point
- Zone end point
When hovering the pointer over a road element and pressing the left button, the following happens:
When clicking on a Lane- The TabLanesbecomes available inSide menuto quickly change the parameters of the selected lane.
When clicking on a Zone- The TabZonesalso will be available inSide menuto quickly change the parameters of the selected zone.
- When you point at the point that visualizes the detector, information about the detector appears (name and type of detector,
antenna type, Local index etc.), besides you can use the mouse to capture the detector location point and move it along the
Xaxis.
- Right—click on the road to determine the distance to the detector (shown in the lower right corner of the window).
Information panel
On the top of the Road Editor page the information panel is available. The panel displays information about the detector name,
detector type, firmware, adapter library version, and detector IP address.
Information panel parameters
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Detector | Detector type, antenna type, detector firmware version, detector operation status marker - green - working detector - blue - in setup mode - yellow - detector with warning - red - non-working detector |
| Adapter | Adapter firmware version, adapter operation status marker: - Green – data is coming from the adapter - Red – data is NOT coming from the adapter or the adapter is not running. |
| IP address | Detector IP address |
| Switch button | Switch button to turn on/off tracking mode |
| Checkbox | Checkbox for enabling the function of displaying object ID number by the System |
| Occupancy indication | A checkbox for switching zones to vehicle detection mode (regardless of the vehicle's direction of movement). If the zone is occupied, the value is 1, if the zone is empty, the value is 0. When you enter the time feed, the busy indicator turns on automatically, because it is necessary for the timeline to work. |
Side menu
The site menu is located on the right. it consists of a control panel and several collapsible blocks with a set of editing tools and fields for entering values (Detector control block and Tracking control block).
Control Panel
This panel section provides a set of buttons for the graphical interface and for sending service commands.
Control Panel Parameters
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Connecting to the detector | Calling a pop-up window to connect to the detector |
| Get road | Getting the road configured/saved on the detector and drawing it in GUI |
| Send road | Sending the road configured in the interface to the detector |
| Write to file | Writing the drawn/configured road to a configuration file |
| Draw from file (render) | Drawing the road in the graphical interface according to the parameters saved in the configuration file |
| Reboot detector | Rebooting the detector |
| Reset settings | Resetting the detector to factory settings |
| Road initialization | Forced setting of the base point to the origin of the coordinate plane (to zero) |
| Extended mode | Enabling the detector operating mode, in which all objects in the entire detection area are viewed and recorded |
- Sending road - the option is used only if the road is fully configured
- Reset settings - this button does not reset the detector’s network settings
- Road initialization - this function is used every time you connect to the detector
Detector control block
The Detector control block in the side panel on the right is presented in the form of information about the detector as
well as tabs Settings, Lanes, Zones.
Parameters of the Detector block
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Name | Detector name display |
| Detector type | Detector Type Display |
| Interface type | Displaying the type of connection to the detector |
| Detector status | Automatic display of a marker that corresponds to the operating status of the detector: green - working detector - blue – in setup mode - yellow – detector with warning - red - non-working detector If you expand the tab Show , a full description of the work status is displayed |
| Automatic status check | When you install a checkbox, the detector status will be updated automatically, once every 60 seconds |
| Detector network parameters | You should to expand the tab Show to see or change the detector network parameters |
| Receive | Request to receive network parameters of the detector |
| Send | Sending new detector subnet parameters to the detector |
| Detector IP address | Detector IP address |
| Detector subnet Mask | The value of the subnet mask for determining the IP address of the subnet and the detector subnet host address |
| Detector gateway | Detector gateway address, ensures forwarding information between different IP subnets |
| NTP server | Server for synchronizing the detector time with local time |
| Send (NTP server) | Synchronization of DT time with local time |
| Extra parameters | The number of available parameters depends on the detector type: - The following parameters are available for DT-25: Calibration parameter, Bézier curves and Frequency band. - For DT-35 the following parameters are available: Calibration parameter and Bézier curves. |
| Calibration parameter | Calibration parameter switch allows you to switch calibrations between the (dsp) chipboard and the antenna, which in turn helps eliminate unnecessary target data. |
| Bezier curves | When this setting is enabled, the detector will build lanes based on Bezier curves |
| Frequency Band | Changing the frequency range of the detector - the parameter is active after receiving all data from the detector. Available options are 77 and 80 |
| Receive (extra parameters) | Request to receive additional parameters from the detector. Additional parameters are not stored in the json file with the road. They can only be obtained by clicking the Receive button |
| Send (extra parameters) | The Send button is common to all parameters switches and fields. You can also send each parameter separately |
Tracking control block
The block is designed to enable the Tracking and Trace modes.
The Tracing function becomes available only after activating the Tracking mode.
Parameters of the Tracking block
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
| Tracking | Tracking mode switch |
| Checkbox (object ID) | Checkbox to enable display of object ID numbers |
| Checkbox (Occupancy indication) | A checkbox for switching zones to vehicle detection mode (regardless of the vehicle's direction of movement) |
| Tracing | Trace mode switch |
Data monitoring block
The data monitoring block is a table that displays real-time data about objects registered by the System. This block table
will be filled with data when the Tracking function is enabled. The block can be expanded or collapsed by clicking on Arrow.
The data monitoring block consists of two tabs Objects and PVR.
The Objects Tab
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
| # | ID number assigned to the object by the System |
X, m | Positioning the drawn object on the canvas along the X axis |
Y, m | Positioning a drawn object on the canvas along the Y axis |
Speed, km/h | Object speed |
| Lane | Lane index in detector |
| Filter (Lane) | Filtering registered objects by the band or bands selected in the filter |
Length, m | Object length |
| Filter (Length) | Filtering objects by length (from / to). |
Filter (Length) - You can enter a value from 0 to 45 m in the From, m field, and from 0 to 45 m in the To, m field.
The PVR Tab
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
| PVR | Amount of PVR data collected by the detector |
| Reset button | Button to reset all recorded PVR |
| # | ID number assigned to the object by the System |
Speed, km/h | Object speed |
| Lane | Lane number on the road |
| Filter (lanes) | Filtering registered objects by the band or bands selected on the filter |
| Zone | Serial number of the zone on the lane |
| Length | Object length recorded by the System |
| Filter (length) | Filtering objects by length (from / to) |
Filter (length) - in field from, m you can set a value from 0 to 45 m, and in field to, m from 0 to 45 m
Timeline
In the upper right corner of the GUI, the Timeline UI element is located. It enables to open the Timeline page.
At the top of the page there are timelines defined for each of the monitored zones. Next, on the right side, it is written which zone the timeline corresponds to. The band shows whether the zone was occupied or vacant at certain time intervals.
The timeline describes the last 2 minutes. The beginning of the scale (on the left) is 120 seconds ago, the end of the scale
(on the right) is 0 seconds ago, one division of the scale corresponds to 1 second. The division is colored red if there
was a vehicle in the zone at that second. Otherwise, the division remains black. Furthermore, at the bottom of the window there is a
schematic image of the road.
The bands operate in occupancy tracking mode: a zone is considered occupied if there is a vehicle in it,
regardless of whether the direction of the vehicle coincides with the direction of the zone or not. When entering the timeline,
the Occupancy indication checkbox turns on automatically. Besides, you can use the checkbox in the information panel
to disable or enable the mode.
Click on Timeline button in the upper-right corner of the page to exit and go back to Road Editor main page.