The massive amounts of data from sensors, which is usually recorded
in a high temporal resolution (up to every second) is challenging for
data processing and visualisation. Especially if standard tools like MS
EXCEL are used, which are not well suited for such tasks to data import
restrictions (e.g. rows per spreadsheet limited to maximum 1 million
rows in MS EXCEL 2010) or missing built-in features for data aggregation
(e.g. calculating one hour median values from the raw data).
In addition operational data often needs to be combined with analytical
data (usually with a temporal resolution of days to weeks) for example
in order to (1) assess the impact of the plant’s operation scheme
(e.g. flow rate) on its performance for reducing specific substances or
for (2) calculating substance loads (by multiplying substance
concentrations with flow rates)
Within the AQUANES project – in order to address the above challenges
for small companies or wa-ter operators – a data visualization and
reporting tool was developed with the software R (www.r-project.org),
which enables the user to: - Explore online and offline data at
different temporal aggregation levels (e.g. raw data or 10 minutes
median values)
- Create automated reports not only including the raw (online/offline)
data but also with more advanced calculations combining different online
and/or offline data (e.g. specific en-ergy demand)
In a first step, the R reporting tool was implemented and tested for the AQUANES site Haridwar, which is described in this report.
The objective of this report is to document the following four processes for the R reporting tool:
Note: This report is based on version 0.4.0 of the R package “aquanes.report”, which is available for download at Zenodo or Github and released using the open-source MIT licence.