We’re excited to introduce the brand new Picture Map Widget in Arduino Cloud! This highly effective function permits you to overlay stay knowledge onto a picture, creating interactive and extremely visible dashboards. Whether or not you’re managing a manufacturing facility flooring, an workplace house, or a bit of business tools, this widget brings your knowledge to life in an entire new manner.
In case you’re questioning how one can use it, we’ve put collectively just a few examples utilizing a few of our current dashboards that will help you perceive how this function could make your knowledge simpler to visualise.
1. Create an interactive workplace flooring plan
Want a greater technique to monitor completely different areas of your workplace, house, or manufacturing facility? With the Picture Map Widget, you’ll be able to add a flooring plan and place real-time knowledge factors instantly on it.
Instance of an workplace map with real-time knowledge
At our Arduino workplaces in Turin, we depend on Arduino Cloud and GIGA Shows to maintain our assembly rooms organized and accessible. Just a few months in the past, we shared a weblog put up about how our engineers developed a customized room reserving system that integrates with Google Calendar APIs.
We used a standard Arduino Cloud dashboard itemizing all assembly rooms, exhibiting particulars like seating capability and availability (see screenshot under).
Earlier than: A regular Arduino Cloud dashboard itemizing all assembly rooms
Whereas useful, it lacked a spatial illustration, making it tougher to get an instantaneous overview of the workplace format. Now, with the Picture Map Widget, our assembly room dashboard has develop into a absolutely interactive flooring map. As an alternative of scanning by means of a listing, you’ll be able to immediately see the place every room is positioned and its real-time availability. Plus, because of embedded URLs, you’ll be able to e-book a room instantly from the dashboard!
After: A better assembly room dashboard: real-time availability at a glance
2. Generate a digital twin for equipment
Monitoring industrial tools has by no means been simpler. As an alternative of manually checking machine standing on-site, the Picture Map Widget allows you to create a digital twin, an interactive visible illustration of your machine with real-time knowledge overlays.
Instance 1: Air Compressor Monitoring
Earlier than: A static dashboard exhibiting stress ranges, run hours, and energy utilization in separate widgets.
After: A digital air compressor with markers displaying key knowledge instantly on a picture of the machine. Now, you’ll be able to shortly assess its well being and efficiency with out being on-site.
Instance 2: Trade major management panel
The brand new Picture Map Widget additionally helps skeuomorphic knowledge visualization, which implies you should use actual pictures or schematics of your bodily setting — just like the format of your manufacturing traces, equipment, or management panels — and overlay them with stay sensor knowledge from Arduino-connected gadgets.
The photograph of an industrial management panel with stay knowledge markers positioned on prime offering operators with an intuitive view of what’s occurring on the ground.
3. Entry standing of manufacturing traces in an business plan
Think about managing a plant with a number of manufacturing traces. With the Picture Map Widget, you’ll be able to add a schematic of the manufacturing facility format or just a clear visible break up into 5 vertical columns, every representing a manufacturing line (Line 1 to Line 5). For every line, you’ll be able to show:
- Present part (Improvement, testing, optimization, or completion)
- Boolean states (e.g. “Prepared,” “Upkeep wanted,” “Paused”)
- Throughput metrics
Stay standing of 5 industrial manufacturing traces
Why you’ll love the brand new Picture Map Widget
- Instantaneous insights – No extra scanning lists of knowledge; see the whole lot at a look.
- Customizable – Add pictures, pin a number of values, and embed hyperlinks for deeper insights.
- Unique to paid plans – Unlock this premium function with the Maker plan and any plan for companies to take your dashboards to the subsequent stage.
Prepared to remodel your dashboards? Attempt the brand new Picture Map Widget now on app.arduino.cc and make your knowledge extra visible, interactive, and actionable!
Tell us the way you’re utilizing it — we’d like to function your mission!
