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How to set up a Ubisense system (2)

Summary

This article follows on from How to set up a Ubisense system (1). It only briefly describes what to do next - its main purpose is to point you to some of the other articles.

Prerequisites

You should know the information in the following article:

How to set up a Ubisense System (1)

Guide

There are a number of things you didn't see in part 1:

Multiple Location Engine Cells: and the issues surrounding the handing over of tags between cells.
Filters: algorithms used to smooth tag movements.
Tag Rate: changing the frequency of location updates (QoS vs battery life).
Objects: attaching tags to objects (in the software...).
Site Manager: Ubisense tool used to create your area, cell hierarchy and spatial zones.

Adding more cells will be discussed in this article. Then, you will have seen most of the possible configuration that can be done in Location Engine Config (LEC). Configuration of the rest of your system is done using different tools, including Site Manager. This guide is intended to describe what you will almost always want to do. It will point you to the other articles if you need help with how to do things.

21) Add the rest of your Location Engine (Sensor) Cells

As you did in part 1. Things to remember:

Use different radio channels for neighbouring cells.
Select the timing source cell from which to receive the timing signal.
First select your handover filter settings, then optionally use clipping regions to encourage tags to hand over.

22) Add your tags

Use the LEC "tags" tab, normally just to add a range covering all your tags.

23) Configure your filters

How to configure filters using Location Engine Config

24) Get yourself on the map

The first thing to do with Site Manager is get yourself on a Ubisense map:

In Site Manager's "Objects" tab, create a "Person" object with your name.
Give your person a representation.
Assign a tag to your person.
Create an area.
Create a cell hierarchy.

You should see your person moving around on the map as you walk around with the tag.

25) Create spatial zones

The next thing is to give some context to your raw location data. In general, (x, y, z) coordinates are not very useful, but the next level of data abstraction is very useful: create a spatial relationship. You should see a zone on your map change colour as you cross in and out.

Taking this to the next stage, you can monitor your spatial relationship in a C# software application.