Overview

The Dashboard Builder turns the data stored in akenza into dashboards, signage screens, and links you can share outside the platform.

The Dashboard Builder is the akenza application for visualizing your data. You assemble a dashboard from components in a drag-and-drop editor, point those components at devices, and the dashboard updates as new data arrives. No code is involved at any step.

The Dashboard Builder displays data that akenza has stored. If a data flow forwards uplinks to an external destination without also using the akenza DB output connector, there is nothing for a dashboard to show.

How a dashboard comes together

1

Choose a dashboard type

A classic dashboard scrolls and has no height limit. A signage screen is fixed to the size of the display it runs on. See Dashboard Types.

2

Add components

Components are the building blocks of a dashboard: charts, KPIs, maps, floorplans, images, and controls. Most of them can run in a demo mode that feeds them automated data, so you can lay out a dashboard and explore what each component does before connecting it to a real device.

3

Connect components to data

Select devices manually, or define the data source dynamically by tag so that devices added later appear on the dashboard without anyone editing it.

4

Organize and share

Bundle related dashboards into groups, then share the result through a public link or embed it in your own application.

Components

Purpose	Components
Trends over time	Line & bar chart, table
Single values and status	KPI components (trend, performance, gauge), status
Spatial context	Map, floorplan, image
Controlling devices	Downlink, slider, button downlink, input field

Device control components send downlinks straight from a dashboard, which turns a read-only view into something an operator can act on. They work for the connectivities that support downlinks: LoRaWAN, NB-IoT, and MQTT.

Components

Managing and sharing dashboards

• Managing Dashboards covers the overview page, where you find every dashboard you have access to, and how groups keep a growing collection navigable.

• Public links make a dashboard viewable without a login, which is the most convenient way to share a view with people outside your organization.

• Embedding dashboards puts a public dashboard into your own website or application inside an iframe.

• Signage screens run a dashboard on a large display in an office or lobby, using the same public link mechanism.

• Dashboard templates let you reuse a layout rather than rebuilding it per site or per customer.

What to do next

Dashboard Types

Decide between a classic dashboard and a signage screen.

Components

The building blocks available for a dashboard.

Embedding

Put a dashboard into your own site or application.

Genio

Ask questions about the same data instead of building a view for each one.