ARDI Documentation - ardi-ar

ARDI AR Administration

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:16 +0000

ARDI AR Administration ARDI AR allows people in the field to get instant access to asset information, simply by looking at assets through their mobile device. Step 1 - Install the Addon First, install the ARDI AR addon onto your ARDI server and enable it in

ARDI AR User Guide

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:16 +0000

ARDI AR User Guide ARDI AR makes it easy to access asset information - simply look at your equipment through your smartphone or other portable device. To do this, we use markers that uniquely identify your devices. ARDI can use barcodes, QR codes and NFC tags, but AR markers are the most powerful of the options.

ARDI-AR User Guide

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:16 +0000

ARDI-AR User Guide ARDI AR is the augmented reality client for ARDI. Using ARDI AR means that by simply looking at your assets through your phone, you're given immediate access to all of the important information - including live values - that apply to what you are looking at.

Camera Settings

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:16 +0000

Camera Settings The camera icon in the top-right corner of the screen allows you to reconfigure your AR camera. If you find your view of the world is stretched, distorted or just too blocky, you'll need to go to the camera settings to adjust the 'resolution' of the camera.

Closing the App

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:16 +0000

Closing the App You close the application the same way as you do any application on your phone... Android: Hit the 'Back' button or the 'Home' button to return to the main screen. IOS/Apple: Hit the 'Home' button.

Connecting to a Server

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:16 +0000

Connecting to a Server The ARDI AR application can connect to a number of different ARDI servers. If this is the first time you've started the app or if there is a problem connecting to the server you used last time, ARDI-AR will let you know and give you the option of opening the Server List.

Glove Mode

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:16 +0000

Glove Mode This mode allows you to operate ARDI-AR without needing to touch the screen when you want to lock or scroll the information that is being displayed. After scanning a marker, you control the application by rotating the phone - imagine using the phone as a steering-wheel.

How To Deploy

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:16 +0000

How To Deploy Physical Deployment When setting up AR on site, there are several different methods of deployment - you can pre-allocate your markers, import their marker IDs etc. However, one of the easiest methods is field deployment, where you simply take a set of pre-printed markers, go into the field and follow the process below

Installing ARDI-AR

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:16 +0000

Installing ARDI-AR Web-Based ARDI-AR is now available as a web-based application. This reduces the amount of additional work you have to do to deploy and maintain AR, as no apps need to be installed or updated. Simply press the AR button on the ARDI sidebar.

Lock Button

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:16 +0000

Lock Button The lock button is located at the top-right of your screen. It is used to lock the current scan to your device, so that you don't need to hold the device up the whole time to keep the marker in view.

The Interface

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:16 +0000

The Interface The icons at the top and bottom corners of the screen are used to access different ARDI-AR features, such as connecting, recent scans, pins, maps and searching. Scanning a Tag Scanning a tag is extremely simple. Once you're connected to a server, simply hold the phone up in 'landscape' orientation (ie. the screen should be

Marker Offsets

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:16 +0000

Marker Offsets There are two ARDI properties related to Augmented Reality. The Marker ID property specifies which marker is used on the asset. The AR Marker Distance property is used to tell the system how far away the asset itself is from the marker.

AR Markers

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:16 +0000

AR Markers We use AR markers to help identify locations and equipment. These markers are picked up by your mobile device in tools such as ARDI AR. Why Markers? Although markerless tracking exists - and is an amazing way to create AR experiences - it's unfortunately not always a good fit for the markets where ARDI is used.

AR Advanced Topics

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:16 +0000

AR Advanced Topics There are a few things you can do with AR markers and ARDI-AR that aren't possible with regular markers such as barcodes, QR codes and NFC tags. Multiple Assets in One Marker Multiple Markers for a Single Asset Marker Offsets Points of Interest How To Deploy

Multiple Assets in One Marker

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:16 +0000

Multiple Assets in One Marker Although normally you'll only have one asset per marker, you can just as easily have many assets connected to a single AR marker ID. When the user looks at the marker, they'll see a list of the different assets and can choose between them.

Multiple Markers for a Single Asset

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:16 +0000

Multiple Markers for a Single Asset For large and bulky assets, you may choose to print more than one marker. This is perfectly fine, but we do suggest that you try to avoid having locations where the two or more of the same marker are clearly visible from the same place.

Options

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Options The option control appears in the top-right corner of the display. By touching the options button, you open the options menu - there are currently three icons available on Android and only two on iPhone and Windows Mobile. From left-to-right, these are

Pins / Pinning

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:16 +0000

Pins / Pinning In some cases you'll want to do a job that needs you to be in two places at once to watch how your actions are changing something up or downstream. This is where pinning comes in handy. When you have scanned (or searched for) an asset that has measurements, a 'pin' icon will appear next to the name and value of each measurement.

Points of Interest

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:16 +0000

Points of Interest Points of Interest are similar to marker offsets - they let you highlight objects that are a relative distance away from the AR marker. But in this case, they are used to show specific features of a single asset - such as where the on/off/reset buttons are, or where isolation switches can be found - instead of showing whole assets.

Recent Scans List

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:16 +0000

Recent Scans List Often you might want to refer back to something you've recently scanned - that is why we've added a Recently Scanned list. Touch the list icon at the top-left of the screen to bring down the list. Don't worry if you can't see everything you've scanned lately - the list scrolls by dragging your finger up and down.

Related Assets

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:16 +0000

Related Assets You can use AR to discover what items the asset you've scanned is connected to. By pressing the 'Link' button, you can see a list of everything that is connected to the asset. This includes physical relationships such as what provides power, air, water or gas, and

Sample / Demo Server

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:16 +0000

Sample / Demo Server The ARDI sample/demonstration server can be found at The server runs in guest mode, meaning that you have read-access without needing a username or password.

Scan Modes

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:16 +0000

Scan Modes ARDI-AR supports a number of scan modes, which change what you see when you look at your markers. You can adjust which mode is currently active from the Options. Detail Mode The standard mode is Detail, which shows you a great deal of information about your assets.

Searching For Items

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:16 +0000

Searching For Items You can get quick access to information that belongs to other, out-of-sight assets by performing a search. By pressing the 'Search' icon in the top left corner of your screen, you'll pull down the Search Box. Simply start typing the name (or other relevant information, such as tag number) into the box and you'll soon find a list of scrollable matches appearing on your screen.

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:16 +0000

ARDI-AR User Guide Introduction

Starting the AR Application

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Starting the AR Application The AR application can be started by simply clicking on its icon on the front page (iOS) or app list (Android) of your device. In a few moments, the application will start and your camera will activate. NOTE: If you've

The ARDI Icon

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:16 +0000

The ARDI Icon The ARDI icon found in the bottom-right of the screen performs two functions. Connecting To Other Servers If you'd like to change the ARDI server you're connected to, simply touch the icon. It will pop open your list of recent servers and allow you to add new ones if you wish.

Viewing the Map

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:16 +0000

Viewing the Map If your ARDI system include floorplans of your site, ARDI-AR can bring these up to show you details of where your assets are. If you search for an asset but you don't know exactly where it is, the map button on the right-hand-side of the scan data will take you to a scrollable map of your site where you will see

Virtual Scans

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:16 +0000

Virtual Scans A virtual scan brings the information about an asset up on your screen without actually needing the marker. These occur when you use the Recent Scans List list or perform a search. Since virtual scans are always locked in place (they don't follow the marker like a real scan does), the

Why So Simple?

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:16 +0000

Why So Simple? Our Augmented Reality client is deliberately kept simple. Although it's possible to do a range of wild things with Augmented Reality, many of them aren't all that suitable for ARDIs target markets. Based on user feedback, we tailored our AR client to do one thing - give you the easiest possible access to the information about the asset you're looking at. For that reason, it does its job very simply.