Camera card

The Camera card shows an image from a site camera, with the timestamp it was captured and controls to step backwards and forwards through the sequence. It puts a picture of the site next to the readings from it.

Why it earns its space

Instrument data tells you that something moved. It rarely tells you why.

A camera image from the same moment often does. Plant working next to an instrument, a load on the deck, weather, a truck parked where it should not be — these explain readings that otherwise look alarming, and they are invisible in the numbers.

That makes the Camera card most useful beside the charts it explains, not on a page of its own. When a threshold is crossed, the first useful question is what was happening on site, and the answer is one card away.

Configure it

Add a Camera card, give it a name, and select which camera it shows.

Using it

The card shows the image closest to the end of the dashboard time range, so changing the range moves the picture with it. Arrows either side step through the sequence, and the timestamp beneath tells you exactly when the frame was captured.

Check that timestamp before drawing conclusions. The nearest available image may be some minutes either side of the reading you are investigating, and on a site where a crane moves through in ninety seconds that gap matters.

Alongside an alert

When you are working a threshold event, the sequence worth stepping through is the period either side of the trigger rather than the single closest frame. A reading that looks structural and a reading that coincides with an excavator tracking past are the same number until you look.

Note what you find in the alert's resolution note. "Plant working adjacent to instrument" is exactly the kind of context that saves the next person repeating the investigation.