CMS Web Interface

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CMS Web Interface Habitat Sensing
Center for Embedded Networked Sensing
Michael Wimbrow, Kevin Browne, Michael Taggart,
Sean Askay and Michael Hamilton James Reserve
Habitat Sensing Team www.jamesreserve.edu
With over a year of Continuous Measurement
System (CMS) data now available from the James
Reserve, the attention of the Habitat Sensing
Team has shifted from basic sensor network
functionality to the need for querying and
visualizing large datasets - both for biological
questions and system diagnostics. Second
generation Extensible Sensor System(ESS) networks
will be deployed later this year, both at the
James Reserve and at the Gump Biological Research
Station in French Polynesia. Several students and
researchers are already planning to use ESS
systems for their research projects, further
necessitating the creation of an intuitive
interface for the sensor network data sets.
Given these common needs and goals, the James
Reserve Habitat Sensing Team began collaboration
on a web-based graphical interface for the James
Reserves sensor and multimedia networks. Once
completed, this tool will allow future system
administrators to effectively maintain the sensor
network and scientific researchers to utilize and
visualize habitat data. Participants and
collaborators Michael Hamilton - James Reserve
Director and CENS co-P.I., Michael Wimbrow - Lead
Project Engineer, Kevin Browne - NRS Information
Manager, Michael Taggart - CENS Field Engineer,
and UCR graduate student Sean Askay.

• Powerful and flexible graphing tools for sensors
  data
• Moving away from the traditional perspective of
  static graphing to dynamic, interactive data
  visualization
• Developing interface-independent manipulation and
  navigation of graphs and datasets
• Web-interface design
• Creating an interface that allows intuitive
  interaction with sensor systems and flexible data
  visualization
• Building a modular design to allow for the
  integration of future features and multimedia
  components
• Developing customized modes for the interface
  to address the specific needs of different user
  groups
• Image storage and data archiving
• Balancing the flexibility of direct storage in
  the database with heavy space requirements of
  image data
• Creation of an interface that allows quick
  navigation of image archives over low-bandwidth
  connections

• Current tools
• Graphing libraries / CMS database data
  summarization / aggregation / graphing
• MySQL database over 15 million sensor data and
  image capture records
• Data summarizations to speed up large queries
  (hourly / daily / weekly / monthly)
• Aggregation functions for sensor data streams
  (max/min, average, total count, etc.)
• PHP graphing script to generate stacked,
  multivariate bitmap graphs on-fly
• CMS GUI web-based data visualization interface
• Graph creation setup detailed plots step-by-step
  or tweak popular preset graphs
• Surf through live datasets click-and-zoom, pan,
  scroll, re-scale, and alter time intervals
• Interactive sensor map add / delete / modify
  plot traces geographically
• Customize plots rearrange data traces, adjust
  dimensions and units, reorder multiple plots
• Bird box Image Archive web-based image browser
• Live video feeds captures stored directly into
  database every 15 minutes
• Daily thumbnail summaries for quick navigation
  and selection of specific frames
• On the horizon
• Multimedia and Spatial Analysis Integration
• Multimedia fusion
• Access to video/audio data streams within CMS
  GUI
• Side-by-side display of bird box image captures
  with sensor data plots

 
Graphing libraries and CMS database
CMS GUI
Bird Box Image Archive
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