In a nutshell, Smartlet is a cross-platform solution which allows centralizing, fast querying, visualizing, calibrating and extracting of sensor data together with simple project data management and data level security.
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First you need the Smartlet package. The latest debug release you can find here.
To install Smartlet you only need to extract the Smartlet package in some installation directory. Because the package is a WinRAR SFX-archive, you either execute it and follow the extraction wizard, or you use WinRAR (if installed) to open the package and unrar it somewhere.
Once the extraction process is finished, your Smartlet installation is done. To run Smartlet, you execute smartlet.exe which you find in the installation directory.
In the introduction we described Smartlet in a few keywords which we will explain here.
The central part of Smartlet is not the Smartlet application but the database. Smartlet database is where all the data gets stored. It can be put anywhere on your network. The Smartlet application is simply a local front-end for the database you connect to.
Now, data has to find its way to the database. For this you can either use the Smartlet application (check the data upload wizard in the manual), or you can upload the data directly to the database through some other means such as psql or some third party utility.
The main functionality of Smartlet is to facilitate data retrieval. For this part there are two components you can use. There is the project tree which gives a quick overview of all the project details and the data. And there is the data factory which allows you to process and create custom tables from the data.
Often it is cumbersome to overview large tables full of data. Therefore Smartlet allows quick visualization of data and scrolling through intervals to facilitate inconsistency and pattern finding.
Raw data is stored in the database but as such isn't much useful. To this end Smartlet gives calibration management and on-the-fly calibration computation.
Finally, customized data-tables can be extracted to files so they can be used in appropriate simulation or modeling software.
The central part of Smartlet is its project tree. It is designed to give a concise overview of projects and it's related members. Together with a highly tunable and extendable privilege system each user can manage his/her own projects and share it with others.
Not all of the data should be available openly. Therefore Smartlet incorporates a very customizable database-based user management system. It allows defining user-specific rights down to the data level.
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