Pattern

Info360 Insight's Pattern tool finds typical patterns in the sensor data for the time range you select.

For example, you may want to know what the typical hourly pressure pattern is for a district metered area (DMA) using the last year’s worth of data. The output would be a bar chart with 24 bars corresponding to each consolidated, averaged hourly reading over the last year.

 The Pattern tool allows you to:

• See the characteristic of data for one or more sensors in a particular time frame (day of week, month, season, etc.).
• Or, with the Use Sensor as Pattern option, see actual sensor data as a pattern.
• Import the resulting Pattern to simulation software so that its results are more realistic.

To create a Pattern

1. Go to Tools Pattern.
2. Click on New Pattern and enter a name and description.
3. Click OK.
4. Open the new pattern to configure it. Bear in mind the following:
   • Pattern Type: For each pattern type you can see in brackets the number of data points that will be output in the calculated pattern.
   • Use Sensor as Pattern: When you mark this box, instead of creating a consolidated, averaged pattern, the actual sensor data is output as a pattern.

     For example, you can set a 7-day time range and an hourly (24 points) pattern type to get a pattern with the sensor's last 168 data points (7 days' worth of 24-hour diurnal patterns).

     This can be useful for hydraulic model calibration/validation. For example, for multi-day gap analysis over a given simulation horizon.

   • Value Multiplication Factor: Use this to change from one unit to another. For example, to change from gpm to mgd you would set a value multiplication factor of 0.0014.
5. Click Save and then Calculate.
6. You can see the results on the Calculated Result tab, and you can also choose to add a chart with the results to a workspace.

   Whenever you refresh the results, these will also be refreshed in the workspace chart.