Users’ Manual
EAN-26 Digital inclinometer operation
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4 READOUT UNIT
The Digital Inclinometer system is using Mobile Phone as a Readout
unit. Phone is running on Android operating system for providing
powerful platform to manage applications efficiently. It has so many
features like phone calls, SMS, MMS, GPRS/3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth,
USB and high resolution Camera. User can use it as mobile phone
for making calls. It has GPRS/3G which enables user to access
internet from site to upload/download files and checking E-mails.
Wireless Bluetooth can be used to send files to PC or any other
Bluetooth device. High resolution camera can be helpful to take site
conditions photographs and send them to the back office by sending
MMS. It has higher capacity external memory card of 8GB which can
store lots of data. Data backup can be taken on regular basis by
connecting phone with PC through USB cable.
4.1 Using the readout unit
The inclinometer software running on phone can take borehole readings and store them into memory.
Inclinometer software has ability to show borehole logs in tabular format and create plots of borehole data
instantly after borehole reading is complete. Borehole data files are created automatically while saving
borehole log. These files can be recreated from software database when needed. Borehole files can be
uploaded to remote server through GPRS/3G/Wi-Fi.
4.1.1 Establishing Bluetooth connection
Inclinometer system is using Bluetooth connection for communicating Phone with Reel. Connect the probe
with Reel. Turn ON the Reel by pressing push button provided on Reel’s disk near battery holder. Once
push button is pressed Reel becomes ON. The indicator will glow in bright RED colour to ensure that reel
is ON. Now power ON the Phone and go to settings and then Bluetooth settings. Turn ON the Bluetooth
and click on “scan” button showing on phone’s screen. Phone will show the list of Bluetooth devices found.
Find the Reel’s serial number on phone screen and click for pairing the phone with Reel. Once pairing
button is pressed it will ask to enter passkey for authentication. Enter pairing code “6965785054” and then
press OK. On successful authentication it will show that device is paired. Now Phone is paired with Reel.
This activity is required for first time connection with Reel.
4.1.2 Running inclinometer application on phone
Running Inclinometer application is very simple. It is as simple as playing games
in mobile phone. The graphic user interface makes it users friendly and thus easy
to operate. Go to applications and then click on Digital Inclinometer application icon
as shown in figure 5.2. Once DI application is clicked to run, it will show the name
of the application and its version (see figure 5.3). This screen will splash for few
seconds and then option menu appears. Figure 5.4 shows the option menu where
we can change password for database deletion or regenerate deletion password.
We can see help information by pressing help button or we can go to main menu
to proceed further.
Figure 5.1
Figure 5.2
