Weatherboxes Page Design Doc

This page references the design doc for the weatherboxes page of dashboard v2. We will discuss the design of the dashboard weatherboxes page.

This is the page where users can view a weahterbox's data based on what weatherbox and node they choose. The following data were collected by each weatherbox and will be displayed into graphs: solar irradiance, pressure, temperature, humidity, uptime, battery voltage, and panel voltage.

We want to consider the page to be user friendly while being able to see all collected data listed above. This includes the ease of being able to select a specific weatherbox and its corresponding nodes from a drop down menu. The organization of the page will allow users to see both environmental and diagnostics data where specific environmental data can be seen by switching a tab.

The design of the landing page will consist of displaying environmental and diagnostics data from a selected weatherbox and node. This will be the main source of data visualization for the dashboard where users are provided with streamed information.

There are no technologies involved with the current design of the weatherboxes page.

Additional features in consideration include displaying environmental data side by side like how the diagnostics data was laid out and a description of the selected weatherbox for users not related with the lab.

While making the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) Presentation, new considerations were made for ease of access to information for a weatherbox. The following design choices will be considered:

1. Rather than displaying only one environmental data graph at a time, just display all.
2. Allow for simultaneous display of node trends (i.e. Apple Node 1 alongside Apple Node 4) for comparison.

After the PDR, feedback was given on the design choices as well as additional features to consider. The following features were suggested during the presentation:

1. Being able to choose a specific time scale (i.e. selecting only one day, one week, one month, one year, all historical, etc).
2. Not only display the graphs, but provide some other useful information for the graphs.

As of Wednesday February 28, 2018
The following features will be implemented for the Weatherboxes Page:

1. Date selection and time scaling
2. Separated environmental graphs
3. Simultaneous graphing of nodes
4. Useful data values from graphs