A quick guide to how you can test the MO

A quick guide to how you can test the MO-technology
developed in the InfraWorld project
Start the Virtual Globe and accept the loading of the Java-plugins.
Data model for Strømsø - Drammen
Wait until Virtual Globe has zoomed in to Drammen.
Electricity consumption
Click on the GMOdb::Managed Objects in the attribute tree and click on the “Load” button as shown in
the screen dump below.
Click on the GMOdb::Managed Objects in the attribute tree and click on the “Load” button
Then the buildings at Strømsø will be loaded into Virtual Globe. These buildings are now objects with
User Interface (UI) and functionality loaded from the server. You can test the functionality by clicking on
a building and wait a second or two. The dialog “Building Energy Consumption” will open as shown in the
screen dump below. Try to change the number of panels and/or the date in this dialog and watch the
changes.
Buildings in Strømsø loaded from the server
Navigation
The easiest way to navigate in Virtual Globe is by using your mouse.
- You pan by holding down the left mouse button and drag.
- You change your view direction by holding down the mouse wheel and drag.
- You move forward and backwards by scrolling the mouse wheel.
- You rotate your view around the location you point at by holding down the right mouse button and
drag.
Data model for Sandvika
Zoom out and drag the globe to Sandvika and zoom in to the plaza outside Thon hotel Oslofjord.
In Sandvika you push the “Load” button again. Then the objects will be loaded as shown in the screen
dump below.
MOs loaded in the model for Sandvika
Electricity consumption
Some of the buildings in Sandvika are MO-objects with electricity consumption data just as for the
buildings at Strømsø in Drammen. You can test the same functionality as for the buildings at Strømsø for
the Thon hotel, Sandvika Storsenter and the Defa building opposite the hotel.
Design of light poles and manholes
Remove the ditch cover by unchecking the “3D objekter: Grøftelokk” drawing attribute.
Click on a light pole or manhole in the ditch outside Thon hotel and a dialog will open for each item.
These dialogs contain controls for moving the light poles and manholes.
Switch on the monitoring of the clashes. This you do by clicking on the on/off button in the small dialog
shown in the upper left corner in the screen dump below. When you move a light pole too close to a
manhole, they will turn orange and you will see the clash in the clash list in the dialog for the light pole or
manhole. Choose the clash and try pushing the “resolve” button and the light pole and manhole will
“jump away” from each other.
Manhole and light pole with clash control
Real time tracking of taxis
Click on the Taxi text in the roundabout in front of the hotel. A small dialog will then open in which you
can turn on the monitoring of taxies. Turn on the monitoring and wait a few seconds. You will then see a
yellow column for every taxi in Oslo and Akershus connected to the real time GPS tracking system. The
position is updated every 40 sec.
Click on one of the taxi columns and the dialog shown up to the left in the screen dump below will open.
Check on “Follow this taxi” and the column will turn red.
Monitoring real time GS-location for taxies in Oslo and Akershus
If you wait for 5-6 minutes, then enough taxi locations are collected for each taxi on the corresponding
taxi objects to test the taxi animation functionality. Click on a red marked taxi and choose “Animate last
moves” to see the taxi move around on the roads.
Real time tracking of mobile devices
Click on the GPS text in the roundabout in front of the hotel. A small dialog then opens in which you can
turn on the tracking of mobile devices.
If you have a smart phone you can go to the home page http://grifinor.net/gpsmo. On this homepage
you insert you initials and push the button “Commit Coordinates”. You will then see your location as a
green column. Click on the column to verify that your initials are shown in the belonging dialog. Note:
This homepage also work on PC’s in most networks. The location is then collected from the location
information for the LAN you are connected to e.g..
Tracking of mobile devices
Possible issues
There have been reported problems with Java7 in some network configurations. Until Oracle resolves
those problems we recommend using Java6 (http://www.java.com/en/download/manual_v6.jsp).
The managed objects require a network connection to the managed object server at port 7890. Some
restrictive firewalls and routers may keep this port closed.