SCADA Dashboard Window Sizing by Context

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Solution Overview

Problem

SCADA systems face challenges in efficiently configuring windows on a dashboard, leading to degraded visibility due to equally sized windows, which hinders effective monitoring and control of remote apparatuses.

Innovation Solution

A SCADA system that adjusts the size and layout of windows based on the context and importance of keywords, allowing users to dynamically change window sizes and prioritize important data, with features like highlighting and enlarging critical windows for improved visibility.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of manufacture

If windows are equally divided and arranged in the screen area, then the layout is simple and automatic, but the visibility and effectiveness of important data are degraded

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveease of window configurationVSAvoidvisibility of important data

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of manufactureVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by assigning different sizes and positions to different windows based on their importance and context. Important windows (those containing critical data or keywords) are given larger sizes and prominent positions, while less important windows are smaller. This resolves the contradiction by making the layout automatic yet differentiated, ensuring important data remains visible while maintaining ease of configuration through automated context-based arrangement.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the parameter of window size from uniform to variable based on context and importance. The control unit automatically adjusts window dimensions according to the data type, context, and keyword importance associated with each window. This parameter change enables the system to maintain automatic configuration ease while improving visibility of critical information through dynamic size adjustment.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

2Stability of the object's composition

If windows are arranged to be the same size, then the configuration is automatic and consistent, but user visibility and data recognition are degraded

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveconsistency of window layoutVSAvoidvisibility of displayed data

Core Design Contradiction:

Stability of the object's compositionVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent maintains overall layout consistency through automated arrangement while applying local quality by varying window sizes based on importance. The control unit ensures stable, automatic configuration but differentiates individual windows locally according to their data context and keyword significance, resolving the contradiction between consistency and visibility.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces dynamics by making window sizes adjustable and changeable based on context and importance, rather than fixed. The control unit dynamically determines optimal window dimensions when windows are added, modified, or removed, maintaining layout stability while adapting to different data priorities, thus improving visibility without sacrificing consistency.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

3Productivity

If the SCADA system displays multiple windows simultaneously, then comprehensive monitoring is achieved, but the visibility of each individual window is degraded

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecomprehensive monitoring capabilityVSAvoidvisibility of individual windows

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by assigning different sizes to different windows based on their importance and context. Critical monitoring data receives larger window allocations, ensuring visibility, while less critical data uses smaller windows. This enables comprehensive monitoring across multiple windows while maintaining adequate visibility of individual windows through differentiated sizing.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The patent resolves the visibility conflict by transitioning from a two-dimensional equal-size grid to a variable-dimensional layout where window sizes are adjusted along the area dimension based on importance. This dimensional change allows comprehensive monitoring of multiple windows while ensuring critical windows maintain sufficient visibility through larger allocations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Data Source

PatentUS10528369B2SCADA system capable of efficiently configuring windows in a screen area

Publication Date: 2020.01.07 LSIS CO LTD

AI summary

Disclosed herein is a SCADA system that can adjust the size of a window added to the whole screen depending on the context of the window. The SCADA system includes a server that acquires data from remote apparatuses for system control and monitoring, and a display device that displays the acquired data via a dashboard. The server includes a control unit that creates the dashboard arranging and adjusting windows displaying data depending on the set context. In the SCADA system, windows can be configured efficiently in the whole screen area by adjusting the size of an added window opened by a user depending on the context of the window in the dashboard and changing the size of already created windows. As a result, the user' visibility can be improved.