How to configure a Duration Alarm

Hi Tim,

the way I understand your objective is that something should appear on a dashboard that tells an operator that the sterilization time is either too short (<19 minutes) or too long (>25 minutes).

It is quite straight forward to create a monitor for the too long periods (Value based search on Temperature>120 for at least 25 minutes), but it is not for the too short periods.

A way to solve both cases at the same time is to utilize create context items for all sterilization processes. These context items will show which periods where too long or too short and can be displayed as a table on the dashboard.

This can be done by doing the following steps:

• create a value based search on your temperature>120.
• save the search
• create a monitor based on this saved search
• use the “Create context item” option as an action, when the monitor detects a sterilization process
• configure the context item type
  • use an appropriate context item type that makes sense in your case, or create a new one
  • use a component (Asset or Tag) that makes sense to you, you could just use your temperature tag here
  • feel free to add a description

Once you have the context item creation set up, you can keep track of the too short and too long periods by using a ContextHub view (please note that you will probably not see any items, as they are not yet created):

• Create a new ContextHub view
• Add a “component” filter, using the same component you chose above
• Add a “context item type” filter, using the same type you chose above
• Add a “current state” filter, to only include context items that are closed.
• Add a duration filter to only catch the too long or too short sterilization periods:

• Adjust the “Event open” filter to your likings
• Save the ContextHub view

Now you can finally add this list of too long/short periods on to your dashboard, by simply adding a new ContextHub tile on the existing or on a new dashboard.

When you have the dashboard in live mode, the operators will see the list of sterilization periods that are either too short or too long. They will appear when the sterilization process is done.

Let us know your thoughts on this or if this solution works for your case.

Kind regards,

Daniel