PQ Canvass Training

Transcript

Introduction

My name is Chris. I work here at Power Monitors. I am a part of the tech support team. I am our tier two, tier three tech support representative.

This is the PQ Canvass webinar. That’s for our cloud-based PQ analysis platform. We’re gonna be going over compatible devices, key features, talk about Merlin AI a little bit, and some of our PQ Canvass security.

The topics we’re gonna be touching on is what is PQ Canvass, compatible devices, using PQ Canvass, certain pages and analysis available on there, Merlin, and then some security questions, compliance questions we get asked a lot.

Why People Use PQ Canvass

PQ Canvass is PQ data available in real time. There’s no waiting or downloading, so everything is streamed into the cloud real time. It’s accessible from anywhere with an internet connection, so you can access PQ Canvass on any device as long as you have an internet connection and a web browser.

There are no memory limits in PQ Canvass, so you can store as much data as you want in the PQ Canvass server, and all the data lives in the cloud. There’s no local power quality file management, and nothing to keep updated, so no more having to copy it over to a coworker’s drive or a shared drive or anything like that. You guys no longer have to worry about managing your own shared drives for power quality data. Everything will be available in PQ Canvass at all times.

We also have the instant email and SMS alerts on power quality events and interruptions that are available through PQ Canvass. Easy re-sharing of recorded data, so no longer waiting if somebody misses work or dependent on a certain recorder getting picked up or anything like that. If it was connected to PQ Canvass, then all that data is available to everybody with an account instantaneously.

Then we have our AI-based reports with a high-level summary today. It’s the future home of AI-based power quality analysis, and the best part about PQ Canvass is that there is no software install needed. It works with virtually almost every recorder we have, some of our legacy recorders excluded, but we’ll touch more on that later.

No more IT updating, waiting for them to put in their admin rights. Since it’s all cloud-based, all you need to do is go to the website, log in with your credentials, and then you’ll have access to your power quality data. PQ Canvas also offers standards-based analytics, which we’ll touch a little bit more on later.

PQ Canvass is also continuously security tested by Qualys for network and port scanning, external penetration testing, and automatic new threat code.

PQ Canvass Overview

Born from Canvas, PMI’s first-generation cloud-based system, PQ Canvass is a platform to collect, analyze, and get alerts from field devices connected through LTE, cell, Wi-Fi, or ethernet. So you get your instant alerts, unlimited power quality data storage, and powerful reporting tools.

View streaming data, enable email and SMS alerts on power quality or power events. You can view live waveforms and access recordings and initialize new recordings from PQ Canvass. And again, no software install needed, so it works from any device with a web browser and an internet connection.

Compatible Devices

The compatibility is where it gets to be a little bit hairy ’cause a lot of you guys out there have a plethora of our units, and a lot of them being some of our legacy units.

If you look at this chart here, the new SeekR Plus can connect to PQ Canvass over cell, Wi-Fi, or ethernet. It does full power quality streaming alerts and uploads. Uploads are only supported through PMI View, Windows, or iOS. The SeekR Plus is not compatible with ProVision.

Then we have SeekR. There’s cell, Wi-Fi, or ethernet, full power quality streaming alerts and uploads. The same is true for everything except for the Tensor and Revolution. The SeekR, Guardian, Tensor both run on a similar platform. The only caveat being that these units don’t have ethernet available, so you only have cell or Wi-Fi, and then they have the same functionality, full PQ streaming alerts and uploads.

The Revolution can only do PQ Canvass through cell or ethernet, and the ethernet must be unrestricted or you must make some whitelist exceptions for the Revolution to be able to talk to PQ Canvass outside of the network. The Revolution also only does one-second RMS streaming, so not full power quality streaming, but it can still do the alerts and then uploads. And uploads being that you traditionally start your recording, download it either through ProVision or PMI View, and then you would upload that recording to PQ Canvass.

ProVision has a built-in uploader. We have that here stated for the legacy devices, so if you would like to be able to upload those recordings to PQ Canvass, you have to use ProVision, and that goes for the Eagle one hundred, two hundred, three hundred, four hundred, IVS, 2SX+, SBM-10. Any of that data, if you wanna upload it to PQ Canvass, you must use ProVision.

PMI View is available on iOS and PC, so it’s available for free through the Microsoft Store. Both of these applications can transfer any downloaded recording straight to PQ Canvass.

PQ Canvass Two-Part System

PQ Canvass is a two-part system. You have the physical recorder, the physical measurement device, either three-phase, single phase, or a plug-in receptacle in terms of the sensor, and it’s gonna be streaming the power quality data in real time to PQ Canvass.

Then on the back end, you have the PQ Canvass cloud system, which receives and stores the power quality data from all the recorders, and then it provides a web-based interface for you guys to be able to view your data in real time. It also allows for data transfer to ProVision or PQDIF for offline access.

Uploading Data from ProVision

Here you see an example of our graph, and the graph looks similarly to what you would have seen in ProVision, just a different user interface. Bringing it into PQ Canvass from ProVision, you would use the PQ Canvass uploader located under the File section in ProVision.

Simply just log in with your username and password. I always check the Save Login box, so I don’t have to fill out the username each time at least. And then you just click Log In to PQ Canvass, and you simply just drag and drop your files down into PQ Canvass.

You can upload power quality recordings from ProVision to PQ Canvass, and this is what you would have to use if you want to upload any USB or Bluetooth-only Revolution files, as well as our legacy recorders, the whole Eagle lineup, IVS lineup, the SVMs as well.

Map View

Here we have a screenshot of the map view of PQ Canvass, where you can pre-program addresses where you deploy these recorders at in the settings for the unit, so that you can keep track of where they’re at, and then see them all on map view with a live feed of their current status.

If you have any alerts going off, it’ll transition the icon into something that alerts you to know that there’s an alert going off at this unit, aside from the emails and the SMS alerts.

Using PQ Canvass

Using PQ Canvass is pretty simple. All you need to do is log in to pqcanvass.powermonitors.com, and as long as you can remember that website, you can get to it from whatever device has a web browser and an internet connection.

You’d find your device on the map or in the device list. Blue is online, black is offline, amber is in an alert state. You can also search by the device’s serial number.

Start a new recording: you would then select the device, then Recordings, and then A New Recording. You can either choose a preset template or use a guided installation, which has snippets of our hookup diagram with pictures that coincide to different wiring hookups. So it would have a snippet of a Y single phase or a delta. You can do different hookups, and that’ll guide you to do the hookup on-site.

You would match the hookup type and the current range to the actual circuits and CTs, and then you would push the template to the recorder. So that would start the recording, and then you would have your two-minute countdown before it begins.

After you’re done, then you would review the data, open the interval graph for the first big picture, and then drill into waveforms reports or passing that off to Merlin.

Devices Page

In the Devices page, you can view all your devices at a glance. There’s also voltage per channel and kilowatt quick view on the device status page. You can see the device activity status and alerts, search for specific devices, and available to the whole organization at the same time.

Recordings Tab

Your recordings are neatly organized in their own tab called the Recordings tab. Each recording is timestamped, the device serial number in the identifier, and you have unlimited file storage. You also have the ability to run the Merlin analysis summary and then view all the linked reports for each recording that’s stored in PQ Canvass.

You can set expiration links to specific graphs, schedule daily deliveries of certain graphs, and view the shared status of graphs and templates.

Waveforms and Harmonics

Here’s a quick screenshot of the waveforms and harmonics on PQ Canvass. This is what waveforms look like on a normal RMS current and voltage strip chart for our waveforms. And then here we have a breakdown of all the other information in a strip chart format on the right-hand side.

Special Reports in PQ Canvass

PQ Canvass has a plethora of special reports only available in PQ Canvass and not available through ProVision or PMI View:

Voltage regulation (ANSI C84)
Voltage sags (IEEE 1668)
Voltage unbalance
Harmonic distortion (IEEE 519)
Distributed generation
Flicker (1453)

All standard reports available in ProVision are also available in PQ Canvass as well.

Merlin AI

Merlin is built into PQ Canvass, and it gets rid of the tedious part of power quality reviews. Merlin does waveform classification. He scores every captured waveform from zero to ten for severity, splitting high severity from low, and then each card adds an executive summary and utility side and customer side attribution. So kind of a breakdown on what it sees for each different pain point of the customer’s complaint, as long as there’s data in the recording to back that up.

Then there’s strip chart analysis. Merlin scans the full recording for voltage sags, swells, and the mirroring pattern of a loose neutral. Results come back as severity scored with regions of interest.

And then there’s also the Merlin Chat, the power quality assistant. You can click the robot icon on any graph that you’re currently viewing, and he’ll analyze that graph and give you a quick expert-level summary of what it sees on the screen at that very moment.

Manual review of five hundred waveforms can take up to two hours. Merlin flags what needs a look in minutes, and then the engineering judgment is still yours.

Running a Merlin Analysis

Running a Merlin analysis is very simple. Once you have the recording in PQ Canvass, if it wasn’t already streamed into PQ Canvass, you would just open the recording from the Recordings window, click on any recording name, and then go to the Overview tab next to the recording.

At the top, you’ll see a little overview with a Merlin hat. That’s the Merlin hub itself. And then you would go ahead and click Start Analysis and accept the terms and conditions. After that, you would review the results once Merlin’s analysis is complete.

There are cards that you can check with the severities of the pain points that it found in the recording, and then you can also expand the cards and view the executive summary and export to PDF as well. A manual pass on the same recording could take you two to three hours. Merlin does it in a couple minutes.

The Merlin Dashboard

Here we have a better view of the Merlin dashboard itself. At the top we have the recording name as well as overview. This is where you get to the Merlin dashboard from the report header. And then you can see that we have our power quality report as well as the sub-reports, specific waveforms and strip charts of interest.

Then the compliance severity scorecard. You can see here that this recording was flagged for a sag immunity, some flicker, and looks like we have a little bit of voltage imbalance. This is going to give you a comprehensive power quality report, a power quality focus report. You can do compliance analysis, strip chart findings, and waveform dashboard.

PQ Canvass Security

PQ Canvass and all of our recorders are tested continuously. PQ Canvass testing consists of continuous vulnerability scanning by Qualys. We have network vulnerability and port scanning, external penetration testing of all public-facing servers, and automatic addition of new threats.

We also do AWS hosting for PQ Canvass. PQ Canvass runs on an Amazon Web Services container. It’s NERC CIP standards for BES cyber system information on AWS, which means it’s heavily protected.

And then there are audits. We do a third-party audit of the PMI process, supply chain, and infrastructure, and we periodically security test both Seekor, Tensor, Revolution, and Guardian.

Practical Demonstration: Logging In

That concludes the PowerPoint presentation. Now we will be going into the practical portion. Once you go to the pqcanvass.powermonitors.com website, you’ll be met with our login screen. You should have been sent email credentials or provided one by the administrator of your account and within your organization, i.e. whoever placed the order for the units.

We usually try to set up the first person on that account as admin, unless directed by the organization itself. Just as a quick tip, I would check the Remember Email Address box just so you don’t have to type out the email address every single time and you only have to worry about your password.

Home Screen and Task Bar

Once you’re logged in, you can set your default to bring you to whatever homepage you want. I have mine set to bring me to the Device page. Typically, when you log in to PQ Canvass, if you haven’t set a preference, it’ll just look like this. We would consider this your home screen.

On your home screen, you’ll notice you have a bar down here at the bottom. This is going to be your task bar within PQ Canvass. We advise that you don’t use the back buttons on your browser or the refresh buttons on your browser. We have internal buttons on PQ Canvass for you to be able to navigate this.

On this bar, you have your Recents, and then you also have recent tabs open, as well as your purchases for your Merlin credits. Then we have the Devices tab, Recordings tab, Graphs and then Reports. Then here is the Map and our Satellite tab, which is for Seekers, the Seeker + units that are equipped with GPS for GPS timestamped waveforms. Then you have the Help Center and then your PQ Canvass organization account settings.

Device Tab Walkthrough

We’re going to start off here in the Device tab. Within the Device tab, you can see you have your serial numbers as well as all your units in here, any custom labels you might have set, and your status. Then you have your Quick View over here to the right, which will give you voltage across three phases as well as kilowatts.

On the left-hand side, another quick, easy way to be able to sift through the unit. You’ll notice here we have different icons. The shields are for Guardians. These boxes, these are Revolutions and Seekers. These are Tensors. This is a Boomerang. This is a Bolt, and then these are Seeker + units.

You can quickly sift through the device types, and you can also filter just by clicking on all of these up here at the top. Every single little category you can click on just to filter certain devices. Let’s say we want to go back to All. So this is for all recorders. Now we just sifted through online status only. We can see here these are all the units that we have currently online.

Quick Access View

From here, you’ll be able to click on the unit itself, and this will take you to the Quick Access view. Once in the Quick Access view, you’ll notice that you have an alert snippet here at the top telling you when the alert was triggered, which alert it is. And then you also, for our devices with built-in relays, have your relay control, as well as the online status, the serial number, and the label on the unit.

Then you’ll get the recording name underneath that, as well as when that recording was started. And these nine buttons in here will be the main way you interact with your unit to get the last four hours of recording or whatever the unit’s been seeing while hooked up or powered on a voltage and online.

Overview

You would click on Overview. That’s going to give you the last four hours of this unit’s recording. And you can zoom in here and navigate the data the same you would on ProVision. To close out of the current window that you’re viewing, use the X in the top right-hand corner of the PQ Canvass screen. Again, we try to refrain from using the forward and back buttons as well as the refresh button.

Live Data

Moving on from Overview, we have Live Data. In Live Data, you’re going to get a one-second RMS stream of the data that you’re seeing off the recorder. We have different views here: Waveform, Meter, and then from our old Canvas, we have Burst for the Boomerangs, and the Spectrogram is something new that is for the Seeker Plus.

If you go into Waveforms, you should be able to see waveforms from whatever channels that the unit’s hooked up, as well as different graphs. You can go to the Harmonic graph, and then you have your Phase Angle Diagram, and then your Meter view.

If you go straight into Meter as well, you have Live Meter, Diagnostic Readings, and Flicker Readings. Going into Live Meter, you would see that it would pull out the same format we just saw previously on the third graph I was switching through. Live Meter is going to give you a live output of your meter broken down data.

Your Diagnostic Readings is going to give you the supercap charge, battery voltage, and firmware version on the unit itself. And then flicker readings will give you live flicker readout from the recorder. Then you have the burst and the spectrogram. This is for the Seeker Pluses, and then this is for the Boomerangs.

Graphs

If you move over from Live Data and go over to Graphs, the graphs portion is going to be the actual recording that you started on the unit itself. You should be able to go to Interval here, and then you can pull RMS voltage and current, or you can view any one of our interval graphs.

We have our real power, total power, RMS voltage and current, real power, voltage and balance. We have a couple different graphs here as well as you have the ability to create your own custom graphs as well. So let’s do RMS voltage and current. And here we can see this recording has been going on this unit here, this Seeker looks like. And we can navigate the data.

Recordings Within a Device

Now moving out of the graphs, we have the recordings tab. Not only do you have the recordings tab built in PQ Canvass, so that’s site-wide, but you want to filter for a specific recording that belongs to a specific recorder. You can navigate to the recorder here to the Quick Access view page. Then you go to Recordings and Recording List, and you’ll see all the recordings associated with that device in here.

Header Report

Here you have your header report. Traditionally in ProVision, you would have seen probably the title first. This has a little bit of a different view here, so you can run graphs or reports straight from the header report. And just like in ProVision, everything that’s blue here that’s hyperlinked, you can click on. So let’s click on RMS voltage. You see it takes me straight to that data.

In the header report, you’ll notice that you have the serial number as well as the date the file was created, the size of the file. You have the name of the file, which you can also edit the title up here. Whether or not it was uploaded, so if it was streamed versus uploaded, it’ll tell you yes or no. When the file was started, when it ended, how long it was, the model that was used to record it, and the firmware on that unit, as well as the circuit type, the current range, and the interval. And then you can see here you have your PT and CT ratios.

Down here at the bottom, you have your event category, which shows you all events that it was recording for. And if there were any triggers, then there’s linked data that you can view. We can click on that. That’ll take us straight to the significant change report.

Running Compliance Reports

You also have the ability to run the compliance report straight from here. So you can do compliance. Let’s say you wanted to run a flicker report, configure that. You’d set your date range and then click Run, and then PQ Canvass will let you know when that’s done, and it’ll give you a little champagne notification. Or you could stay on this screen, and you’ll get the little check mark.

You can click on the link to pull up the report. These reports are also downloadable and printable, so you can share these. You can see it generates a table of contents along with a summary, any flicker settings, a flicker summary, as well as the detailed analysis, and what results it classified. Then you can keep scrolling down, and it’ll give you an actual summary of timeline events if there were any events found.

This report can be changed to also carry your company logo if you upload your company logo to PQ Canvass.

Merlin Overview in Recordings

Moving on from the reports, we also have our Merlin overview available in the recording itself. You would click on this little hat where it says overview. After clicking on the little hat, it’s going to tell you introduction to Merlin, all the disclaimers, and then you just accept. You click Next.

If you want to give any background information on the recording itself, you can. Then it’ll give you a summary of how much it’ll cost, as well as you can turn on your email alert for the analysis or enter in your phone number for text message alert for when the analysis is done. So you’ll get a text message alert when it’s done, and then you’ll be able to log into PQ Canvass to view the Merlin power quality analysis.

New Recording Setup

Moving from the recordings, we have the new recording section. This is where we explained you can pull your presets or custom recording templates, as well as you can customize and do the guided installation.

The guided install is going to have snippets for whatever unit it is, what kind of unit it is. It’ll give you the hookup diagram that corresponds with whatever hookup you’re using. So you can see here four-wire Delta, three-wire Delta, two and a half element Y, and a Y. Then you would select your current range and your nominal voltage.

After clicking Next, let’s say we wanted to do general purpose. You would set your recording interval and then your hookup type and your current range. If you wanted more options or more fine-tuning of these recording settings, you would click Advanced, and that’s going to take you to the advanced settings.

This is where you can turn on harmonics. Check all these boxes if you wanted everything to be checked. If you want to uncheck individual measures, then you would go about it this way. Then you can go through waveform capture, event capture, flicker, abnormal voltage, ITIC SEBEMA, and miscellaneous.

This is where you set your information. Most people set here their customer’s name or address or ticket number or something like that, something pertaining to the investigation itself. Once you’re done setting up your template, you can name it up here. You just double-click on general purpose, and you can rename it or whatever the name of the template you chose was, and then you can save or send it straight to the recorder to start a new recording.

Download Recordings for Revolutions

The Download Recordings button located in the Recordings tab is strictly for Revolutions. If you have a Revolution, this button won’t be grayed out, and you can queue a download from your Revolution, your internet-connected Revolution, whether that be cell or Ethernet, straight to PQ Canvass, so you don’t have to download with ProVision and then re-upload.

Reports

Going into Reports. This is where if you don’t want to go into the recording, you just want to run a straight report, you can run a statistics report, or you can run an interval report. Here we have RMS voltage. Let’s say the last twenty-four hours, and we want it on a ten-second averaging interval.

Doesn’t look like that data was contained in that file. It’ll spit out the report, and then it’ll be available through the recorder itself. So if you go through the device list and filter for the recorder, or you can go down here to the bottom of your Reports tab, and you should see it in here.

Alert Thresholds

Next, we have Alert Thresholds. This is where you set up the particular thresholds that you want your device to look out for on triggering an alert. We have a couple different options in here, as well as in the PQ Canvass account tab where you set up distribution lists.

You can change your averaging window, your hold-off time, and your hysteresis, and then you can set RMS voltage, RMS current, and real power. You would just set your values here and then set thresholds, and that’ll send it to the recorder, and then it’ll give you a confirmation on whether it was able to send those thresholds to the unit or not.

Actions and Atoms

Then we have Actions. Actions is where you will go to pair any of our atoms, which are add-on child devices for SeekR, Guardian, Tensor, Bolt, and SeekR Plus. These are environmental monitors that record humidity, iridescence. They record even Gs for motion. You can associate them with your unit through PQ Canvass on this page. You would just add the device and it would begin the pair process.

Device Info

Then we have Info. Info is going to give you the label for the unit, which is editable. Anytime you see a little pencil icon next to a field, that means that you can edit that field. You can edit the amount of customers this unit’s been at, and then the location.

It’s also going to give you the model plus the serial number, as well as the firmware version. And if the unit has GPS equipped, you’ll get GPS lock information, so you’ll get the coordinates and the amount of locks. You can manually sync the location through here.

Then you also get a status and a network feed. If it’s online, it’ll give you the last online date, the last time it talked to PQ Canvass, whether or not it’s online, the current IP address it’s reporting, as well as some signal strength indicators for cell.

In the Settings tab, you can retrieve unit-wide. So not based off the recording itself, but on the unit, you can change the circuit type, the current range, and your PT/CT ratios.

Recordings Tab (Site-Wide)

Now making our way from the Device tab over to the Recordings tab. In the Recordings tab, you’ll have all your uploaded recordings. If you didn’t stream it from PQ Canvass and you uploaded it from either ProVision, PMI View iOS or PMI View Windows, they’ll be showing up in the Uploaded folder here in PQ Canvass.

Then you can create more folders if you would like to be able to organize and manage your data and move them around, classify what you need, or separate, differentiate the data in between your organization.

Once you are in your Recordings tab and let’s say you wanted to find something that had an analysis already ran on it, you can scroll down some. You’ll see the created timestamp and then the serial number. But then you can also see you have a quick Merlin analysis snippet.

If I click on it here, and then I go to Overview, I saw that it said benign forty-four-minute baseline with a mild flicker and four percent total harmonic distortion. I can navigate the full Merlin analysis through here. I don’t have to go back to the Devices tab and filter through to the device itself.

Full Merlin Analysis Report

Then you’ll see in here that we have a huge power quality report. This is the big executive summary. You have your power quality issue matrix, where it finds all the issues that it saw in that recording, and then it ranks them from one to ten and gives you waveforms for you to be able to view that specific issue.

Going down, you have the snapshot list, a voltage sag analysis, voltage swell analysis, solution neutral analysis, flicker analysis, harmonic analysis, transient interruptions, and voltage regulation, as well as voltage imbalance.

This is even going to give you a customer contribution narrative, a customer equipment compatibility assessment, a utility contribution narrative, a root cause discussion, some steady-state trends, some key events to look out for in the recording itself. It’ll give you a little bit of investigation guidance and try to notate some load behavior, as well as a data type evaluation and data quality and confidence.

He’ll even give you his confidence on what he says and where to find what he uses to back up his analysis. Then we have some additional questions for the user, as well as follow-up recording advice.

Graphs Tab

Let’s go back to the Recordings tab. You do have the ability to search for a recording by using the magnifying glass. Now let’s move over to the Graphs tab.

In here, you’ll see any shared graphs of interest. You can snippet a certain portion of the graph and save it for viewing later, and they’ll be saved here in the Graphs tab. You can click on it, and that’ll pull you up to the moment where you notated the graph of something noteworthy to come back to. You can also see whether or not it was shared and who it was shared with, as well as edit the graph’s name.

Reports Tab

Now moving on from the graphs, let’s go over to the Reports tab. Earlier, I created a report on that SeekR recording. We can see here that it was created by me, and it was a flicker report. We have the timestamp. You can share it with people, and then you can also set an expiration to the link as well, or you can make it never expire. You can also download that specific report straight from here. If I click on that report, it’ll take me straight to the report itself.

Map Tab

Now let’s move over to the Map tab. This map view is gonna give you a quick view of all your units. You can see here we have a couple sort of scattered around just for demo purposes.

Upon further viewing of the map view, if you scroll in on your units, you should be able to see any that might have a different status. Here we see there’s a Tensor that had a status. This Tensor has a status. It looks like this one had one and it is no longer. But these icon colors will change depending on what the units are seeing. Gray does indicate offline, blue does indicate online, orange indicates an alert is currently active.

GPS Tab

Now making our way over to the GPS tab. Again, this is only for units equipped with GPS, so you can equip a Seeker or Seeker Plus with GPS for GPS timestamp waveforms. You would just set your filter for your date range and what you were looking for, the triggers, and then hit Next, and that’s gonna try to find any of the GPS-equipped units that might have had any of those results.

Help Center

Now moving along, we have the Help Center. In the Help Center, you can ask basic questions like IEEE fourteen fifty-three. We can see that it gave me IEEE one forty-one flicker curve versus IEEE fourteen fifty-three flicker meter, an overview guide of IEEE twelve fifty, and understanding IEEE eleven fifty-nine.

There’s also a Getting Started in here, so there’s useful information here on how to use PQ Canvass and how to navigate it, as well as frequently asked questions and then a glossary of most commonly used power quality and PQ Canvass terminology.

You can change your homepage here. You can set it to either take you to that gray screen, which we could consider the desktop, or your device list, recordings, graphs, reports, or device map. We also have some links for quick start guide, manual, and white papers down here.

Account Settings

Moving our way over to the Account Settings tab. Here you have User, Password, Contact, Preferences, Shared Files, My Purchases, Users, Notifications, Tags, Scheduled Reports, Export Settings, and Help Center. This is just gonna be another link to the Help Center that’s located down here. Everything else is a little different.

In User, this is where you would edit your own user information. You can edit first, last name, and email address. Password is where you can change your password. You would put your old password in, put your new one in, and then retype the new one just to confirm.

Contact is where you add email addresses and phone numbers for the alert distribution list. Let’s say you wanted to add a phone number, you would add the person’s name plus the phone number, and then check that it’s a mobile device. Or vice versa for email addresses: name of the person, email address, and then Save.

In Preferences, you have a couple different options, as well as you could change your starting page again. You have your time zone settings, your map position you can set to somewhere by default, some graph options, some accessibility options, and then reports options, as well as PQDIF exports, and then plain text alerts.

In Shared Files, you’ll be able to see any files that have been recently shared out of your organization’s account and the number of users that have accessed it. You can click on it and see which email addresses were able to access it, and then you can also remove access for that particular email address.

My Purchases is gonna show you the amount of credits you have, and then you can also purchase more Merlin credits here as well. You can enter all your card information here.

User Management

Then we have Users. For account admins, they’ll be able to revoke access, grant access, promote users to admins, change passwords for people, or you can remove their login access. You can see who’s signed in, and you can also delete users from here as well.

Notifications and Alert Distribution

Notifications is how you set up your alerts. If you wanna set up a distribution list for a number of people to get alerts for a certain unit’s conditions, you’d click on the alert if you have one set up already. If not, you click on the little plus mark at the top, name it, and then set the hold-off time and the aggregate time.

Once it’s set up, then you’ll go back into there and click on it, and then you’ll actually go through here and add units. You can add multiple units, or you could do just one unit. You could do multiple users getting alerted.

There’s a number of different alerts. You could do everything from voltage and current down to irradiance, humidity, pressure, and temperature if you have our supported environmental monitors. And then we have other events: accelerometer, vibration, alarm status change, flicker, new firmware has been downloaded, new settings downloaded, or power on and power off events.

Scheduled Reports and Export Settings

Scheduled reports is where you’re gonna schedule your particular reports that you want sent out to you on a regular basis. This is gonna show you which reports were sent out.

Export settings is where you’re gonna upload your company logo. If you want to have your logo in those reports that are generated in PQ Canvass, you would just select a file here and upload your company logo, and then usually it’s about 24 to 48 hours for us to approve that logo, and then you’ll get a notification when that logo is approved for you to be able to run your reports.

Other Noteworthy Functions

Some other noteworthy functions within PQ Canvass itself. We just opened a couple tabs, and this is the recent tab. You can see here that we have the option of going home, closing all, or we can close individual tabs out or navigate to those specific tabs.

Let’s say you were just viewing a recording and you ran a report and it took you to the report. Now you want to get back to the recording. You would look for that tab in here, and that would take you straight there.

Then you also have down here a sign-out button. Then you also have a full-screen button, so you can full screen your PQ Canvass. You can just hit Escape to exit full screen as well. And then you can also change your grid layout and switch accounts. If you wanted to switch to another account, let’s say you manage multiple accounts, you would click the little person icon down here.

Then you also have your admin reports as well, so you could see who’s logged in, who’s logged out, their usage, what they’re doing, what kind of data that they’re working with, and then any compliance reports that might have been run and what recordings they belong to.

Navigating Graphs in Detail

Now let’s go into a little more detail on some of these reports. We’ll go into a recording, and I’ll show you guys how to navigate the graphs. Let’s go, let’s say for example into an interval graph. Say we wanted to run RMS voltage and current. It’s gonna fetch that data for you.

Down here at the bottom, you have another toolbar above your normal task bar. Here you have a couple different options. You can zoom in and out through here, or you can zoom in by clicking and dragging on a portion of the data you wanted to view. That’s gonna zoom you in on that view. And then if you wanted to zoom out, you’d click the minus button on the bottom.

But you also have the option to customize your axes on here the same way you did on ProVision, and then you can also enable or disable certain traces. You can annotate the graph as well. And then we also have Show Points. So instead of just showing a graph on a line, that’s gonna show you the actual data points themselves.

You can also show the per unit scaling, and then let’s say I wanted to view an actual readout of voltage or current wherever I have my mouse at. You see this little eyeball with a line through it? You would click that. So now wherever you’re hovering your mouse over, you actually get a live readout of that specific data point itself. You get your channels one and two, min and max, and then you can scroll, and the timestamp also live updates with it.

Here you can show specific waveforms in this recording, and then you also have the selection tool and the home button to go home on the recording itself, as well as a refresh button.

AI Assistant on Graphs

Then we have the AI assistant as well. You can have him analyze the graph on the screen. Tell him to analyze the graph. Whenever you see that animation, you can tell that he’s analyzing the graph.

So you can see here he says, “This is a four-channel RMS voltage and current trend covering roughly October sixth through the twenty-first. So just quickly running through some information from the recording to give you a summary.” Then it goes on to say, “In the summary, aside from the short bursts of early disturbances, the power quality over this period is very clean.” So it’ll give you a quick expert summary on what it saw on that specific screen.

You can discuss the analysis with him, or you can ask him to recommend you white papers for what it saw on that specific screen itself.

Additional Graph Controls

You can also change your averaging view interval. Let’s say I wanted to view it by three-second intervals. That changes the data up a little bit. And then you have a button to annotate over here, a button to edit the graph, and then you also have the option of saving this graph.

You can save the graph as a picture, either SVG or PNG, or you can export it to CSV for Excel, or you can send it straight to your printer, so you can print this graph itself.

Now on the top left-hand side of this screen, you’ll be able to navigate to other templates quickly as well. You just hover over it, then this menu will pop up, and you can quickly switch between other reports available on this recording.

Waveform Captures

Now let’s go over to waveform capture. Your waveform captures are gonna be your cycle-level data. In the waveform capture list, it’ll tell you whether or not it was GPS timestamped and then the cycle, as well as what channel, the trigger, and what value it met.

Let’s go ahead and click on this first waveform here, and we can see this is a waveform capture itself. You can navigate between the waveform captures up top by clicking on these arrows, so you can go to the next one or the previous one. We also have the harmonics data available and the phase angle diagram, as well as the meter view.

3D Harmonics

Then moving on, we have the 3D harmonics. Let’s say we wanted to do voltage harmonics. This is similar to the 3D harmonic view graph on ProVision. There are a couple people that like using this view versus just viewing normal data on a graph or data on a chart.

You can click and drag this around. If there were any harmonics, you would see some values here. You could click on that specific data as well if there was any recorded already, and it would take you to waveform capture for what it saw.

Spectrogram

And the spectrogram, this is the latest and greatest. This is for the Seeker+ only. The spectrogram is gonna give you a quick view of what it’s seeing frequency-wise, and you can change the channel view as well as toggle fundamental harmonics, interharmonics, or super harmonics. You can see your log frequency. You can navigate this data as well, and just by clicking and dragging, and you can double-click to zoom out.

Closing

That concludes the PQ Canvass webinar. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to email us at support@powermonitors.com, or you can give us a call at one eight hundred two nine six forty-one twenty. Keep in mind we do have twenty-four-hour tech support. Thank you, guys. Have a good rest of your day.