The Base software runs full time receiving and analyzing the movement data and applying user defined movement cutoffs to highlight targets and update target group statuses.  Alarm emails can be automatically sent when a target group's status changes by exceeding the user defined movement cutoffs.

Target Groups - Main Window

The mine engineer can group targets into logical groups and assign movement and velocity cutoffs which will highlight the group based on the percentage of targets moving within a defined cutoff range. Individual target vectors are also high-lighted based on the user defined cutoffs.

Targets groups are coloured according to the movement cutoffs assigned for the group. A green dot on the group folder means safe. Yellow is warning and red is danger. When you click on a group the targets contained within the group are displayed on the right-hand side of the window. You can see which targets are moving based on the coloured highlighting of the vector values that exceed the cutoffs.

Target Group Tree

The "Target Group Tree" contains a user defined tree of target groups.  The special system group "*All Targets*" contains all targets in the system.  The Target Groups can be arranged into sub trees. Target Groups allow the user to group targets into logical groupings based on geographic or any other criteria such as "Current Prisms", "Weekly Report" or any other relevant grouping.  The user can define each Target Groups preferences including delta movement cutoff, velocity cutoffs, graphing preferences, etc.  See "Target Groups" for further information on target group preferences. 

The colored dot to the left of each target group represents the status of the target group.  Green is safe, yellow is warning and red is danger.  SlopeMon automatically updates the target group status as new data is received from the remote stations.

Individual targets can be arranged under multiple groups.

Target Group Targets

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When a target group is selected in the "Target Group Tree" the group's targets are displayed along with a summary of their movement information including: delta Northing, Easting, Elevation, Distance, Horizontal Angles and associated velocities.

Targets that were shot in the last monitoring cycle have a solid blue triangle to the left of their name.  Targets that could not be shot have a hollow blue triangle.  This allows the operator to quickly see what targets have current data and which don't.

Target data is colored based on the groups user defined delta and velocity cutoff parameters.  Target data exceeding the small movement values is highlighted yellow, target data exceeding the large movement values are highlighted red.  If a targets data has aged beyond a user defined period of time the highlighting is pail to signal the operator the data is stale.

The operator can double click any target to view it's Target Data Window.  A summary of the selected target's last absolute values is displayed at the bottom.

Target Data Window

The target data window allows you to view the target data in both graph and grid format. You can edit the target data and the graph will automatically update.

On this window you can turn on and off all vectors recorded and calculated for the target. Vectors available are: Slope Distance, Horizontal Angle, Vertical Angle, Total Vector, Northing, Easting, Elevation, Pressure and Temperature along with all the matching velocities.

You can view each target in the selected group by simply clicking the next or previous target buttons.

You can zoom in on target data using the mouse and scroll back and forward in time to see the history of the target.

All edited data can be reverted to original data, no original data is lost.

Pit View Window - Plan

SlopeMon can display a pit view window that can show the selected group of targets in both plan and 3D views.

In order to view your pit in 2D/3D you'll required an ASCII DXF file of your contour lines.

When you double click on a target, the Target Data window is displayed.

Pit View Window - 3D

The pit view can be easily rotated and panned in both 2D and 3D.

A user selected movement vector of either slope distance or total vector can be displayed on the plan view.

Target Groups

Targets can be organized into logical groups. There is one default group called *All Targets* that contains a list of all the targets known to SlopeMon. Each target group can have a unique set of preferences.

Group Preferences:

	General This page allows the selection of Units (Metric or Imperial) and number of digits used to display shot values.
	Graph This page allows the selection of the Default time period shown on Target Graphs and used to calculate a targets movement in the group. Multiple time periods can be defined and used for each Target Group. The page also contains the default graph range, units and decimals used to graph target data. The graph range controls the Y-Axis displayed on the target graphs. This range can be adjusted by the user when viewing the target graphs. The default vectors displayed on the target graph and data grid are set on this page.
	Delta Data Custom Delta Movement cutoffs can be set for each target group. Target vectors that exceed the small or large cutoffs will be highlighted yellow or red, respectively. Highlighting is used in the target group data window and on the target data grid on the Target Window to mark small and large delta movements.
	Velocity Data The velocity cutoffs are used to highlight velocities in the target group grid and target data grid, similar to delta data cutoffs above. Velocity data cutoffs combined with the group color percent targets values are used to highlight overall movement of a target group. When a give percentage of targets, in a group, exceeds the specified cutoff, the target group folder has either a yellow or red dot representing the status of the target group. A green dot on a target group means the groups is "safe", yellow is "warning" and red is "danger".
	Pit View The Pit View Window allow the user to view both a plan and 3D view of all the targets in a selected group. Multiple DXF files can be used to underlay the targets in the view window. This tab allows you to select the underlay DXF files and the dimensions of the view. Because DXF files can be quite complex, this page allows you to determine the resolution used to display the DXF file, reducing the complexity and thus processing time required.
	Movement Vector A movement vector can be displayed on the Pit View Window. The vector can be based on either Total Vector or Slope Distance. This page allows you to configure the vector and it's magnification.
	Alarms Alarms can be set for each Target Group.  When the group status changes to "Small" or "Large" movement based on the Delta or Velocity cutoffs SlopeMon will start to beep a user defined number of beeps over a user defined interval. Alarm emails can automatically be sent to any number of email addressed when the alarms are triggered.  The emails detail the target group moving, the degree of movement and the alarm level.  Alarm emails are sent anytime a group status changes, so if a target group returns to a green or normal status a new email will be sent details the status change.

Automatic Alarm Emails

SlopeMon can automatically send alarm emails based on the user defined Target Group Delta and Velocity cutoffs.  The emails detail the targets moving in the group and the degree of movement that exceeded the cutoff.

In this example email the target moved from an "Unknown" status to "Velocity Small".  The "Unknown" status occurs when the SlopeMon hasn't received data from the target for a user defined period of time.  This can happen when the target has been unreadable due to mining conditions such as bad weather or dust.  If the target status goes from "Unknown" to "No Movement" no email is sent.

Emails can be sent to Cell phones using a direct email address or a providers email to SMS service (offered by most major cell providers).

Target Group Reports

Target Group reports can be easily printed at a click of a button.

The report summarizes the movement of all the targets in a selected group. It displays the user selected vectors over the user selected time period. Movement values are high-lighted based on the group cutoffs selected by the user. Yellow represents small movement, red large.

Target Reports

Target Reports can be printed for an entire group. The report includes a graph of user selected vectors over time and a grid containing user selected deltas, accumulated deltas or vector values for each shot displayed on the graph.

The graph can be of each shot recorded, each shot after a given time of day or each shot after a given number of days. This allows you to view both long and short term data with ease.

Plan View Report

A Plan View report can be customized and printed for a Target Group.  The report displays the group targets and their movement vectors scaled based on user settings.  A pit outline can be display under the target date using a DXF files.

The title block (bottom left) is user customizable.