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Adjust weights for the kpis for the gfz sensor management system

  1. Jul 29, 2024
    • Nils Brinckmann's avatar
      Adjust weights for the kpis for the gfz sensor management system · 48e3d281
      Nils Brinckmann authored and Annette Spicker (HZB)'s avatar Annette Spicker (HZB) committed
      This MR adjusts the weights of the sensor management system.
      
      In the past we had 50% users and for the rest an equal weighting of
      devices, platforms, configurations and sites (each 12.5 %).
      
      We want to stay with 50% users, but the rest we suggest the following
      change:
      
      - Devices 20%
      - Platforms 15%
      - Configurations 10%
      - Sites 5%
      
      So the new weighting scheme takes devices more into account, sites way
      less.
      
      The reason for this suggestion is the hierarchy of the elements within
      the sensor management system:
      
      The main entities are the devices. They can be used in the field & held
      information about the measured quantities. Everything in the SMS is
      centered around them.
      
      Devices can be mounted (or deployed) on other devices - and then maybe
      on platforms.
      
      Both can then be used within a configuration. And several configurations
      can be bound to a site.
      
      If we have a climate station for example.
      
      We have then the following hierarchy:
      
      - Station (Platform)
        - Logger (Device)
          - Temperature device
          - Wind vane
          - ...
      Such a hierarchy can be seen as one configuration (for example the
      clima station Heydenhof that we operate as part of the german lowlands
      site of tereno).
      
      There can be quite a lot of those configurations - then then can be
      bound to the sites.
      
      For the german lowlands for tereno we provide data for around 80
      configurations. All of them are then bound to one site.
      
      The site hierachry however can be nested too.
      
      Our german lowland site is part of the tereno observatories for example.
      
      So the overall hierarchy in the sms is:
      - Site > Sub site > configuration > Platform > Logger (device) > Devices
      
      And we think the suggested weighting scheme in this commit here is a
      better fit for what we have.
      48e3d281
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