ARDI Documentation - ardiuserguide

Addons

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Addons Addons are used in ARDI for several reasons.... * To integrate ARDI with another system, such as a Document Management System or ERP system. * To provide additional visualisations, such as the Notify addon. * To extend the functionality of ARDI and allow additional features that aren't part of the core product.

Advanced Charts

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Advanced Charts As well as a single trendline, there are many other charts available. These are accessed by clicking on the Charts button either in the dashboard or the diagram for your asset. ARDI uses your relationships to help create charts that might be meaningful for you. It guides you through the process by asking three questions…

The Alert List

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

The Alert List The alert list is a simple list of active alerts that can be accessed from the sidebar. Clicking on any of the alerts will take you to the dashboard of the asset that raised the alert, where you will be able to find more information.

Alert Root Cause Suggestion

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Alert Root Cause Suggestion When you view the detail of an alert (usually by clicking on the alert name in the dashboard), you are taken to a page that shows you the title and description of the alert in question, as well as any Media you have associated with the alert.

Alerts

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Alerts An alert lets you know that there is something wrong (or close to being wrong) with an asset. * Over Temperature Alerts * High or Low Level Alerts * Excessive Run-Time Alerts, etc. Alerts can be found in two places - they appear on the

ARDI ID Number

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

ARDI ID Number Each asset in ARDI is allocated a unique ID number, primarily for internal use. The only time you should ever have to deal directly with an ARDI ID number is when integrating your software into ARDI or creating new addins, which is outside the scope of this documentation.

ARDI Web UI Guide

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

ARDI Web UI Guide Every ARDI server can be accessed via it's web UI. There is a video overview of the Web UI here Simply type the name of your ARDI server (usually given to you by a system administrator) into your browsers search bar and you'll be taken straight to ARDI.

ARDI-AR

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

ARDI-AR ARDI-AR is the Augmented Reality client for ARDI. You can discover more about the product in it's documentation.

ARDI-VE

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

ARDI-VE ARDI VE is the immersive 3D client for ARDI, giving you the ability to explore your assets, their locations and their relationships in an easy-to-understand way. For more about the product, see the documentation.

Using Asset Lookup Fields

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Using Asset Lookup Fields Many ARDI search fields are Asset Lookup Fields Asset lookup fields support autocompletion – by typing just the first few characters of the name or Equipment Reference Number of an asset, it will go out and try to find suitable matches and suggest them to you.

Assets

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Assets Everything is an asset. Every piece of equipment you have, every sensor, every person, every vehicle - they are all examples of assets. Assets don't even need to be physical objects. Plant areas, departments and regions can also be examples of assets in ARDI, and are often used to group other ARDI assets together.

Asset Base Names

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Asset Base Names The base name of an asset is the name that is given to it. For instance, if you create an asset called 'Water Isolator', that is it's base name. As well as a user-selected base name, each asset also is given a Asset Full Names. Note that both base and full names are subject to change over time. If you want to uniquely identify an ARDI asset, we suggest using the

Exploring Your Location Hierarchy

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Exploring Your Location Hierarchy Location is one of the most important hierarchies in ARDI. Its used for describing where an asset fits in to your plant and with your systems. You can browse the location hierarchy by choosing Hierarchies | Location from The Sidebar.

Changing Your Password

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Changing Your Password To change your password, you'll need to open the user settings page. You can find it by clicking on your user-name in the top-right corner of the page. This will open a window allowing you to either logout or go to settings.

Charts

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Charts ARDI can be used to produce charts of both live and historical information. The most basic chart is a simple trendline, which you can get by clicking on any one of your linked properties in ARDI. Every chart has access to the time-travel control, allowing you to choose exactly what the chart is looking at.

Common Web-Interface Tasks

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Common Web-Interface Tasks Finding an Asset (Web) Following Connections Getting a Trendline Finding Documentation

Connections Menu

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Connections Menu The connections menu appears in the sidebar of the ARDI web interface. You can use it to explore your relationships - the connections between your assets. The menu will offer you a list of the physical relationships between your assets. When you select a relationship to follow, one of two things will happen

Connections Page

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Connections Page The Connections Page is available from the connections menu in the sidebar. This page shows you all of the starting points for your physical relationships. A starting point is an asset that is the source of a relationship. This is normally where a product first enters your site (ie. your gas or power provider, for example) or places where a new type of product is created or separated from others (such as filters, screens or ovens).

Contexts

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Contexts Most applications only have the one context, which is automatically created when you first install ARDI. The default context is called 'Actual' and represents the real, measured data from your assets. However, you might have more than the Actual context - you might have

Dashboard

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Dashboard The dashboard gives you an overview and a gateway to everything ARDI knows about your asset. As well as the name and description of your asset (not shown in the image above), each box gives you a different piece of information about your asset.

Detail

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Detail The detail pages allow you to see more detailed information about an asset, as opposed to the dashboard which gives you a general overview. The detail pages are mostly intended for people to edit the assets, which is something most ARDI users don't have permission to do.

Diagrams

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Diagrams ARDI uses diagrams to show you how your asset is connected to others. It creates a unique diagram for every relationship your asset has. If it is part of the gas system, there's a diagram for that. If it's connected to water piping, there's a diagram for that too.

Diagrams

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Diagrams ARDI knows how your assets are connected through the relationships you've defined. But it can be difficult to see where these relationships lead without a good visualisation - that is why ARDI uses relationship diagrams to explain how your various assets are connected.

Equipment Reference Numbers

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Equipment Reference Numbers Equipment Reference Numbers are also often known as ERNs or informally as Tag Numbers. They are a unique alpha-numeric sequence that identifies a specific asset. They often follow a strict structure giving some information as to what the asset might be - for example, the

Equipment Reference Numbers

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Events

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Events Events are important moments or periods of time. They are usually loaded from an external data source, such as a database file. Events can represent alarms, shifts, production batches - even lunar months, if you prefer. You can also have multiple sources of events, so in some cases these will be mixed in with one-another.

Find Assets

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Find Assets The Find Assets page (also sometimes known as the hub) is where you can get quick access to most of the methods of finding an asset. You can access the Find Assets page from the sidebar at any time. The page is broken into multiple sections.... Search For An Asset

Finding an Asset (Web)

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Finding an Asset (Web) If you're using ARDI regularly, you'll be doing a lot of searching for your assets. There are actually several ways to search for your assets, depending on what it is that you know about them. If you're in the field, the easiest way is using

Finding Documentation

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Finding Documentation It's usually quite straight-forward to get documentation from ARDI. Step 1: Find the Asset Find your asset, then open the dashboard. Step 2: Click on Media After all of the alerts and properties, you'll find the “Media” button. Click on it to see the media for your asset.

Following Connections

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Following Connections One of the things that sets ARDI apart from other systems is its knowledge of your relationships - of how your various assets are connected. You can see your relationships in ARDI by using diagrams. There is a different diagram available for every relationship an asset has.

Asset Full Names

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Asset Full Names The 'Full Name' of an asset uses your Location hierarchy to give a long-winded description of your asset to help differentiate it from others that may share the same name. The base name of an asset is the name you assign to it when it is created.

Getting a Trendline

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Getting a Trendline It's quite easy to get a trend-line from the web-interface of ARDI. Step 1: Find the Asset Find your asset, then open the dashboard. Step 2: Click on the Property Find the box that contains the property you're interested in, and click on it. Complete

Haystack

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Haystack Haystack is a way of describing systems, commonly used in the building automation industry. ARDI includes a guide to our terminology for people who are used to Haystack terms - you can find it on our main website at

Hierarchies Menu

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Hierarchies Menu The hierarchies menu appears in the sidebar of the ARDI web interface. You can use it to explore your hierarchies - the main organisational relationships of your asset collection. The two built-in hierarchies that are created automatically by ARDI are

Hierarchies

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Hierarchies A hierarchy is an arrangement of items (assets, in our case) in which the items are represented as being above, below or at the same level as one another. This forms a 'tree' structure - like that found below. At their most basic level, they help to give what would otherwise be a large, daunting pool of assets a sensible, understandable and more easy-to-digest structure.

Using ARDI

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Using ARDI Before you start, please ensure that you've understood some of the basic terms used in ARDI by reading the anatomy of an asset from the basics guide. Once you've done that, you'll need to choose which of our clients you'd like to use. If you're just getting started, we suggest you read the

Linked Properties

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Linked Properties All assets can have properties. However, some of those properties are linked, meaning that they are connected to live or historical information. Information like temperature, pressure or flow rate are usually linked. This means that you can create charts that show information sourced from your information management systems.

Locations Menu

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Locations Menu The locations menu appears in the sidebar of the ARDI web interface. It allows you to explore other ARDI databases present on the machine you are using. Each database usually represents a different site - organisations that have many small sites will often place them all on a single ARDI server.

Maps

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Maps ARDI can be configured to include maps of your plants (and even of sub-areas, such as individual areas, sections or even control panels). Accessing You can access maps several ways.... * By clicking on the button in the Maps section of the

Media

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Media Each asset can have a number of media files associated with it. These can contain documents (such as instructional PDFs), sound files, videos, photographs or any other valid type of media that you need to store with your asset. You can browse the media for an asset from the

Properties

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Properties Each asset in your system can have any number of properties. A property is a single piece of information about that asset. Examples include... * A Postal Address * A Serial Number * A Phone Number * A Measurement (ie. Temperature, Pressure etc.)

Property Flow

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Property Flow Most devices have inputs and outputs such as power, water or gas, but most assets aren't equipped with a full array of sensors to tell you about those inputs. This means that when you look at an asset that uses water, you've got no idea what the water pressure, temperature or flow rate is, even if they

Relationships

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Relationships Relationships describe the connections between your assets. Each relationship has a start point, an end point and a direction. For example, a light switch feeds power to a light-bulb in the ceiling, so in this case the 'Power' relationship between the two moves from the switch to the bulb.

Search Box

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Search Box Type in the name, or partial name, of any asset in the chosen virtual environment. The search algorithm will intelligently attempt to find the most related assets matching your search string. You may use any asset name or property name in your search, so you can locate items using tags or model numbers.

Searching for Assets

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Searching for Assets Searching in ARDI doesn't simply search for the assets name, it searches every static property. So when you perform a search, it will include... * The asset name * The asset description * Other properties, such as Equipment Reference Numbers, address, date, alternate ID numbers and more.

The Search Page

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

The Search Page The search page allows you to quickly and easily find your assets if you know something about them, such as their tag number or name. Getting There You can get to the search page by entering text from either the search bar in the sidebar or by entering text in the home screen.

Show On Map

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Show On Map This page shows you where the selected asset is physically located in the environment. The bar on the right hand side of the page gives you information about the environment and the selected asset. Mouse Position The top of the bar shows the x and y locations of the mouse cursor in relation to the environment.

ARDI Web User Guide

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

ARDI Web User Guide Web User Guide Opening ARDI General Layout * Dashboard * Diagrams * Finding an Asset (Web) Common Tasks * Finding an Asset (Web) * Following Connections * Finding Documentation * Changing Passwords Charts * A Basic Trendline * Advanced Charts * Time-Travel BACK

Static Properties

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Static Properties A static property is one that is not connected to live or historical data. These properties are stored in the ARDI database, so they are very useful for searching or performing analytical functions. Certain ARDI extensions (addons) may

The Sidebar

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

The Sidebar On each ARDI web interface page is the sidebar, which is the dark panel on the left-hand side of your screen. When accessing the site on a small device such as a tablet or mobile phone, the side panel will be hidden by default – you can access it via the button in the top-left corner of the screen.

The Time-Travel Control

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

The Time-Travel Control The time-travel control is unique to ARDI and can be found in most of our products with access to history. It allows you to choose between Contexts, choose instants and periods in history and even set up comparisons between time frames or between live and simulated data.

Time Travel (Web)

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Time Travel (Web) Above is a picture of the Time Travel control in its simplest state. Normally when you open an ARDI product, the control will be set to 'live', showing you the data as it comes in. However, the control can also be used to look at a

Types

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Types Types provide a way of grouping similar items together. Note that if you're familiar with the Haystack structure used in building monitoring, this term can be a little confusing - please feel free to read our information on the differences in terminology between ARDI and Haystack. In the same way that tags

The ARDI Web Interface

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

The ARDI Web Interface When looking up information or configuring your system, most of your time will be spent in the ARDI Web Interface. Sidebar and Content Each page is broken into two distinct areas, one dark and one light. The dark region on the left-hand side of the image above is the

ARDI Documentation - ardiuserguide

Addons

Advanced Charts

The Alert List

Alert Root Cause Suggestion

Alerts

ARDI ID Number

ARDI Web UI Guide

ARDI-AR

ARDI-VE

Using Asset Lookup Fields

Assets

Asset Base Names

Exploring Your Location Hierarchy

Changing Your Password

Charts

Common Web-Interface Tasks

Connections Menu

Connections Page

Contexts

Dashboard

Detail

Diagrams

Diagrams

Equipment Reference Numbers

Equipment Reference Numbers

Events

Find Assets

Finding an Asset (Web)

Finding Documentation

Following Connections

Asset Full Names

Getting a Trendline

Haystack

Hierarchies Menu

Hierarchies

Using ARDI

Linked Properties

Locations Menu

Maps

Media

Properties

Property Flow

Relationships

Search Box

Searching for Assets

The Search Page

Show On Map

ARDI Web User Guide

Static Properties

Tags

The Sidebar

The Time-Travel Control

Time Travel (Web)

Types

The ARDI Web Interface