Parsyl Trek Tab TREKC1 User manual

Parsyl Trek Tab User Guide
2021
Trek Tab
The Android App
The Web Application
Gateway
Safety and Certification
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The Trek Tab
Product Sheet
Basic specifications of Trek Tab device
User Guide
Shipments
Configuration Settings
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The Trek Tab
Product Overview
Sensors
Temperature
Normal Operating Range
-30°C to +55°C
Sensing Range
-30°C to +70°C
Accuracy
±0.3°C to ±0.4°C
Resolution
0.01°C
Calibration
NIST Traceable, ISO/IEC 17025 certified
Enclosures
Dimensions
51mm x 26mm x 5.3mm
Weight
9g
Battery
100 days of active logging at 0°C, 24-month shelf life at 20°C
Material
Polycarbonate + ABS
Humidity
0% - 95% RH (Storage, Operating, Transport)
Ingress
Protection
IP67-rated. Water and dust resistant.
Status
Indicators
Bright LED lights indicate status of device and monitoring.
Wireless Connectivity
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) 5.0 - 2.4GHz, Class 2.
Warranty
The product is covered by a one year warranty in the event of any component failure not caused
by mechanical damage.
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The Trek Tab
User Guide
Status button, LED Display
The Trek Tab LED display utilizes indicator lights in green or red in varying patterns to indicate
status.
The center LED indicates the recording status. A flashing green LED after a single short button
press indicates that the Trek Tab is actively recording.
The left [✔] LED indicates with a flashing green LED after a single short button press that the
Trek Tab has not experienced conditions that exceed any of the threshold alarm settings. If the
button is pressed while the TrekTab is actively recording, the [✔] LED will flash in sequence after
the center LED flashing green.
The right [✖] LED indicates with a flashing red LED after a single short button press when the
Trek Tab has experienced at least one instance of conditions exceeding at least one of the
threshold alarm settings. If the button is pressed while the Trek Tab is actively recording, the
right [✖] LED will flash in sequence after the center LED flashing green.
Shipments
To activate the Trek Tab device to track a shipment, press and hold the ‘Push’ button for
3-seconds until the center LED flashes green. Depending on your shipping profile settings, there
may be a delay after the unit is activated until it begins recording.
To stop recording, press and hold the ‘Push’ button until the center LED flashes red. Note: The
Trek Tab is intended to be a single use device. Once recording has been stopped it cannot be
restarted.
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To conserve battery power, after the Trek Tab has stopped recording, it will stop BLE advertising
after prolonged periods without user interaction. Users can re-initiate BLE advertisements from
this low-power state with a single short press of the ‘Push’ button.
Data Transfer
In order to access the data recorded on the Trek Tab, it will need to be offloaded by a Gateway or
the Parsyl Mobile App. To offload data with the app, start by logging in or selecting Transfer
Data.
To view the Trek Tab data and analyze findings, log into the Parsyl Web Application and select
the appropriate Shipment from the list within your Company to view the details.
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The Trek Tab
Configuration Settings
Excursions
An excursion is defined as any time spent outside of “expected ranges” when monitoring your
products. Excursion thresholds are defined by your specific needs and set by creating upper and
lower limits of temperature.
Options for excursions
Within our excursion settings, you have two options for tracking the excursions recorded by our
Treks:
●Cumulative excursions will sum all of the time your Trek Tab records values outside the
predetermined range, even if those values temporarily enter back into normal range
during the Trek Tab’s journey. Optionally, the Trek Tab can be reset once the alarm has
been breached or the device has been turned off.
●Continuous excursions occur only when the readings from your Trek are outside the
predetermined range, continuously, for a specified amount of time. The timer becomes
reset upon detecting that readings have returned to “normal” or “expected” ranges.
Alerts
The Trek Tab can be configured to display and record varying alert “levels” given certain values
and threshold conditions.
There are three (optional) severity levels that can be customized to your preferred workflow and
procedure requirements:
●Info: normal, or expected recordings for data points logged by the Trek Tab.
●Warning: “concerning” recordings for data points logged by the Trek Tab.
●Alarm: “high-level of concern” recordings for data points logged by the Trek Tab.
Note: Only alarm and normal conditions are indicated by the LEDs of the TrekTab. Warning
conditions are accessible by means of mobile and web interfaces.
Customizations
Within each alert type, the behavior requested when each severity threshold is met can be
customized to your desire. Settings that are customizable for displaying alarms on the Trek Tab
include:
●Alarm threshold settings
●Logging start delay
Please note that no action is required from the user to ensure uninterrupted use of the device
during electromagnetic disturbance.
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The Android App
User Guide
Getting Started
Shipments
Settings
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The Android App
User Guide
Getting Started
Before you begin, you must have a Parsyl account with appropriate permissions to access the
Android App experience for your company’s Parsyl account.
Download the Parsyl Android App from the Google Play store, here.
Once the download is complete, open the Parsyl App from your Android phone.
Log in by entering your email address or phone number and entering the login code we send
you.
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Shipments
The Shipments section of the Android app is reserved for the monitoring and analyzing of
shipment data recorded by the Trek Tab during its journey.
Trek Details Screen
Upon scanning the QR code of a Trek Tab, from the Shipments section within the Mobile App,
you will be taken to the Trek Details screen.
This screen provides an example of the details of the shipment including at least one
time-temperature limit violation for each alarm type including the first
time-temperature-violation of high and low temperature alarms.
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The Trek Details screen highlights the current reading for the given Trek Tab, other details about
the Trek Tab including its Product Type, Mode and total monitoring time for that shipment.
At the conclusion of a shipment, tap Transfer Data to transfer the data collected from the Trek
Tab device to the Parsyl Web Application for further analysis.
Settings
Mobile App Usage Settings
From the Parsyl Android App, you have a number of optional settings to enhance the Parsyl
experience including updates and customizations within your phone’s Data Transfer settings,
Bluetooth settings and Location settings.
For more discussion around how these settings can compliment your specific workflow, please
reach out to [email protected] and we are happy to help.
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The Web Application
User Guide
Getting Started
Shipments
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The Web Application
User Guide
Getting Started
The Web Application can be accessed from the following url: https://app.parsyl.com
Before a user can log into the system, they must have an account in the Parsyl Platform where
they will be assigned to your Company and given appropriate permissions to the system.
There are two permissions options within the Parsyl platform:
●Web app users are allowed to access and work within the Web Application
●Mobile app users are allowed to scan Treks, offload data and access your Company’s
information via the Android App.
When registering your team with Parsyl, users can have one or both of these permission sets
based on your unique workflow and security processes.
Once you have been registered in the Parsyl platform, you will navigate to app.parsyl.com and
login. For assistance logging in, please email [email protected].
Similar to the Android App experience, the Parsyl Web Application is organized into two main
sections: Shipments and Assets.
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Product profile configuration
The product profile allows administrators to choose settings that fit their specific use case.
Selecting profiles is an infrequent task, primarily done at initial account setup and onboarding.
Under the General section of the product profile, users can identify which type of insights they
would like to record during the logging period (Note: While the options still appear, the Trek Tab
does not support humidity, shock, light or GPS reporting and will ignore these settings).
Additionally, users can opt to prevent users from manually or accidentally turning off the
TrekTab by selecting to ‘Ignore Trek Switch off Events’.
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The product profile also allows users to program multiple thresholds to fit their specific needs.
The customizable thresholds include:
●Logging interval for temperature.
●Upper and lower warnings, alarms and alarm time delays (duration) at any temperature
in the operating range.
●Duration of time delay before alarm or warning is triggered.
●Type of excursion delay: cumulative or continuous.
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Shipments
Types of Shipments
The Parsyl platform supports two variations on Shipment tracking to better support our
customer needs.
●Manual Shipments - planned shipments allow the user to input more specific details
about their shipment, and plan for them ahead of the shipment date if they wish to use
Parsyl to organize their orders and upcoming deliveries.
●Automatic Shipments - quick shipments do not have the same planning and scheduling
options as the planned shipments feature and are more appropriate for unplanned, quick
trips that need tracking and monitoring throughout.
Manual Shipments
If your organization is utilizing the Manual Shipments feature, when you log into the Parsyl Web
app, and navigate to the Shipments options in the menu, you will see Shipments overview page
with options to view quick stats about all of your shipments in the system, along with a filterable
or sortable list to view all shipments.
Column definitions:
●Name: user created name for the shipment
●Origin: the departure destination, selected by the user
●Destination: the intended arrival destination, selected by the user
●Goods: the type of goods or items being shipped
●Anticipated departure: date of departure from origin, input by the user
●Anticipated arrival: date of arrival to destination, input by the user
●Cumulative Excursion Duration: the total amount of time an excursion was detected
during the shipment, based on the logging ranges and intervals set by the user
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From the list view, you can sort and search available shipments to find a particular shipment
you’re interested in viewing.
By clicking a given shipment, you will be taken to the Shipment Details page which shows more
granular recordings and events from the shipment, including all configured variables recorded
for the shipment in a line graph display.
You can see your shipment data overlaid on top of your expected ranges (shown in grey) as an
option for your graph display. Additionally, all thresholds breached in transit are listed as
excursions in the Activity Feed on the right-hand side of the screen.
Users can also see basic overviews of the shipment statistics such as Max/Min/Average
Temperatures, Time Above and Below Threshold etc. And they have the option to filter their graph
to learn more about specific time periods during transit. Users also have the option to download
the data collected during transit via the ‘Download CSV’ icon in the top right corner of the
shipment details screen.
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Lastly, users always have access to their threshold and logger settings through the display of
the graph, Activity feed and Details tab on the right-hand side of the screen.
Automatic Shipments
If your organization is utilizing the Automatic Shipments feature, when you log into the Parsyl
Web app, and navigate to Shipments in the main menu, you will see all data recorded and
offloaded from Treks used in quick, unplanned shipments, sorted by the most recent.
Column definitions:
●Name: auto-generated name of the shipment that combines the friendly name of the
Trek, the TrekID and the date the shipment began
●Treks: the TrekID used to track the shipment
●Start: the date/time the Trek was switched to monitor and began the shipment
●End: the date/time the Trek was switched to standby to end the shipment
●Duration: total time the Trek was monitoring the shipment from “start” to “end”
From the list view, you can sort and search available shipments to find a particular shipment
you’re interested in viewing.
By clicking a given shipment, you will be taken to the Shipment Details page which shows more
granular recordings and events from the shipment, including all configured variables recorded
for the shipment in a line graph display. Users also have the option to download the data
collected during transit via the ‘Download CSV’ icon in the top right corner of the shipment
details screen.
You can see your shipment data overlaid on top of your expected ranges (shown in grey) as an
option for your graph display.
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By hovering your mouse or cursor over the graph data, you will see a hover display that shows
the date, time and variable recording for that moment along the graph.
When viewing the graph, click and drag your mouse or cursor over a section of the graph you
wish to “zoom” into.
The axis of the graph will automatically adjust as you zoom. To reset your view of the graph
data, click Reset Zoom.
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Gateway
User Guide
About
Implementation
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