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About the DataHub Earth & Environment Sensor Management System

The purpose of this application is to help scientists and technicians to manage sensors, measurement setups and campaigns. The application aims to handle all relevant information about the entities, where the real data is managed in a separate time series management system. The application is currently developed as a DataHub tool. The first version of the SMS was published by the HubTerra Group in autumn 2022. For an overview of the existing versions and significant changes, see here.

**If you need help using the tool, start **here

**If you further want to actively participate in improving the SMS or need any guidance and help, please become part of the **SMS Community

Landing page

When you open the landing page of the SMS you can see some cards that describe shortly the three main elements of the overall system:

devices
platforms
configurations

Below them there are buttons that will lead you to according search pages for those entries.

In case you are logged in there additional buttons to open the dialogs to add devices, platforms or configurations. For authenticated users we also list the 5 most recent changes within the sensor management system.

More information about devices, platforms & configurations and the start page can be found here.

In most cases you can see the navigation bar on the left side. https://codebase.helmholtz.cloud/hub-terra/sms/service-desk/-/wikis/FirstStart#access-to-sms

If your browser window is rather small, then you can have a button to extend it: You can find it on the left side of the header at the top of the page.

The navigation bar itself contains all elements as the cards on the landing page - so that you can click them to search for devices for example - but also additional entries for sites, contacts (login required) or information pages for group management.

The navigation bar is described in more detail here.

To start the login process there is a small user icon in the top right corner of the page. You can find more information about the login process here.