Vehicles
This view is used to handle the various vehicles that are assigned to you. A figure of this view is presented below in the Figure "Vehicles Tab". At the top, the red section, is a search area where you type in the criteria to be used for fetching the vehicles you are interested in. As you enter your criteria a row count is presented in the upper right area to show how many potential matches there are. The entries are also fetched as you type but only as many rows as fit your current view are fetched. As you scroll down more results will be fetched.
The number of possible columns to show is quite large (24). The columns shown below are in default order. You will have to account for any changes you have made yourself. The columns are:
| WCU ID | The ID of the WCU. An example is MM-320:1 |
| WCU Description | A textual comment attached to the WCU. |
| Last DRO | Says when the DRO log file was last transferred to the portal. |
| Last log | Shows when the last log file was transferred to the portal. |
| Upload size | Says what the size, in kilobytes, of the last data upload was. |
| Upload date | Contains which date the last upload was done |
| Upload | This column says how much data has been transferred from the WCU to the portal the last week. |
| Plate number | The plate number of the car where the WCU is mounted. |
| VIN | Shows the Vehicle Identification Number of the car where the WCU is mounted. |
| Voltage | The column shows the latest known battery voltage as reported by the CEM. |
| Mileage | The column shows the mileage of the car. |
| Up-time | Shows how many hours the WCU been running the last week. |
| Distance | Shows the distance the car has been driven the last week. |
| Project Id | Shows the project identification number. |
| Proto number | Shows the proto number. |
| TSU | Shows the TSU identifier. |
| WCU Version | Shows which version the current WCU software has. |
| Connected | Shows how many minutes have passed since the WCU made a connection to the WICE portal. |
| GDS/SDDB | The name of the GDS/SDDB file used when parsing SoH assignment data. |
| WCU voltage | Shows the voltage as measured by the WCU. |
| WCU storage usage | Shows the amount of storage available to store data on the WCU. |
| Series | Shows the series attribute. |
| WCU name | Shows the name of the WCU |
| Resource group | The resource group (if any) the WCU is part of. |
| Platform type | Only from v2.44: Search WCU by platform type. |
Now, as there are so many columns present you have the option of selecting which ones you would like to see by right-clicking on the table header. If you would like your selection to be remembered between sessions, use the binocular icon with an add sign in bottom right corner in the Figure "Vehicles Tab". To save the currently entered search expression, similarly use the magnifying glass icon with an add sign. To read more about the view and search functionality, click here.
There is a concept called “resource groups” you should be aware of in this panel. A resource group is simply a way to refer to a group of resources (WCU, Car) collectively. An example is when creating assignments you can select a resource group instead of the individual WCU:s to start a new assignment. Also, when showing the positions on a map, you select a resource group and press “Show position”, all WCU:s in that resource group will show. To see which resources are in a resource group you press the triangle to the left of the row and the row opens up to show the individual members. To show the members in the view you can rightclick the entry and select the option “find members” from the menu.
When selecting a row in the table the selected row changes to a blue shade. You can modify the description of the WCU by clicking in the “Edit Description” button and entering a new description. You can search among the vehicles log files by clicking the “Get log files” button.
Show the Vehicle Position
To see the last reported position of a vehicle, click the “Show Position” button which opens up a map view of where the vehicle was last known to be. You can view several vehicles simultaneously by ctrl- or shift-clicking the vehicles you are interested in.
If you want to know more about the "Show position"-tool you can read more about it here.
View Diagnostic Trouble Codes
If an SoH assignment has been enabled to do Diagnostic Trouble Code (DTC) read-outs, you can view the trouble codes by selecting the vehicle you are interested in and push the button “View DTCs”. In Figure "Viewing Diagnostic Trouble Codes" you can see an example presentation of DTCs. There are five columns in the table. The leftmost is the name of the ECU issuing the DTC, next is the date and time when the trouble code was read-out, the actual DTC with clear text description, and thereafter the VIN and WCU id of the vehicle. If you click in the column for the actual trouble code, a dialog opens with that particular trouble codes. You can extend the size of the dialog in order to examine the trouble codes in more detail. You can also search the trouble codes as you can see at the top of Figure "Viewing Diagnostic Trouble Codes".
View ECU software
It is possible to see the ECU software number for each ECU in a vehicle. Press the button “ECU SW” after you have selected one vehicle. The following view will be shown. As you can see in Figure "ECU Software Versions", each ECU's software number is shown along with when it was read. You can download the list as a tab-separated text file if you press “Download”.
Get WCU Up-time
This function is used to get a compilation of the up-time of a set of vehicles during a particular time span. Select the WCUs you are interested in and the click the “Get WCU uptime” button. This brings up the dialog to the right.
Choose the dates you are interested by choosing a start and end date. Next you have the option of downloading a CSV file, or excel file. The up-time in that file is listed as hours up-time per day per WCU. The other option is to compile the up-time in a chart shown on screen. The up-time is averaged over the WCUs selected for each day. WCUs having no up-time at all are excluded from the compilation.
From version 2.42 there is a new feature to display the WCUs uptime based on the data sent from statusd. More info in WCU Uptime.
Export SoH Data
You can export data from SoH assignments to your local computer by using the function “Export SoH data”. Select the cars you are interested in as you can export for more than one car in one export. You select the dates you are interested in getting the data from. Check each item you are interested in. Currently you can select mileage, WCU voltage, ECU software versions, battery voltage and storage usage. The file can be exported in CSV format (suitable for Excel and other spreadsheet applications) and in XML format.
Resource Groups
WCUs and cars can collectively be referred to as "resources". As such they can be grouped together and be handled collectively in order to ease the administration of a set of similar individuals. A resource group can consist of both cars and WCUs but usually only one type of resource is in a resource group.
You identify a resource group by a gray arrow like icon to the left in the table row. If you click the icon the entry opens up and makes room for showing which resources are part of the resource group.
From version 2.42 the showing of the resource group's resources has been improved. More info can be found in Resource group's resources.
When a new task is created any resource groups assigned to you will show up in addition to individual WCUs. There is, however, no indication as to the particular entry is a resource group or not. If you select a resource group, the new assignment will be downloaded to all the WCUs that are part of the resource group. As a regular user you can not create and remove resource groups, only an administrator of the portal can do this.
From version 2.42 of the portal it is easier to search out members of resource groups using the "Resource group" column. When searching in this column one will get results that either matches the name of a resource group WCU or WCUs that are part of a resource group that matches the search criteria. In other words, if we search for "ABCD" we will get the resource group "ABCD" together with all WCUs that are part of the "ABCD" group.
This column can also be used to list all WCUs that are not part of any resource group. To perform this search, put "^$" in the "Resource group" column.
Alternatively, you can find the resource group that a WCU belongs to, by right-clicking the WCU and select "Search resource group".
Modules
If you have the right permission you will be able to view a WCU:s modules, and configure them. A module is a specific functionality of the WCU, such as a measurement tool. The available modules are:
- Blue piraT
- Canrecorder
- DoIP
- ETAS
- GPS
- IDC
- MCD-Hub
- Rapid Prototyping (RP)
- Signal Reader
- SoftHub
- Software Download (SWDL)
- State of Health (SoH)
- Uptime
- Vinreader