We’re excited to introduce the brand new Picture Map Widget in Arduino Cloud! This highly effective function means that you can overlay dwell knowledge onto a picture, creating interactive and extremely visible dashboards. Whether or not you’re managing a manufacturing facility ground, an workplace house, or a bit of commercial tools, this widget brings your knowledge to life in a complete new means.
In case you’re questioning methods to use it, we’ve put collectively a number of examples utilizing a few of our current dashboards that can assist you perceive how this function could make your knowledge simpler to visualise.
1. Create an interactive workplace ground plan with the Picture Map widget
Want a greater solution to monitor completely different areas of your workplace, house, or manufacturing facility? With the Picture Map Widget, you’ll be able to add a ground 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. A number of months in the past, we shared a weblog submit 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 typical Arduino Cloud dashboard itemizing all assembly rooms
Whereas purposeful, 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 change into a totally interactive ground map. As a substitute of scanning by means of an inventory, you’ll be able to immediately see the place every room is situated and its real-time availability. Plus, because of embedded URLs, you’ll be able to ebook a room instantly from the dashboard!
After: A wiser 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 a substitute of manually checking machine standing on-site, the Picture Map Widget enables 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 rapidly 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 suggests you should utilize actual photographs or schematics of your bodily setting — just like the format of your manufacturing strains, equipment, or management panels — and overlay them with dwell sensor knowledge from Arduino-connected units.
The picture of an industrial management panel with dwell knowledge markers positioned on high offering operators with an intuitive view of what’s taking place on the ground.
3. Entry standing of manufacturing strains in an trade plan
Think about managing a plant with a number of manufacturing strains. With the Picture Map Widget, you’ll be able to add a schematic of the manufacturing facility format or just a clear visible cut 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 section (Growth, testing, optimization, or completion)
- Boolean states (e.g. “Prepared,” “Upkeep wanted,” “Paused”)
- Throughput metrics
Dwell standing of 5 industrial manufacturing strains
Why you’ll love the brand new Picture Map Widget
- Prompt insights – No extra scanning lists of information; see every part at a look.
- Customizable – Add photographs, 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 venture!
