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Everything in BDI Cloud is reached from the sidebar, and everything in the sidebar is organized around projects. Once you know that the middle of the sidebar changes with the project you have open ...

Dashboard access is granted per dashboard. Sharing one is a separate act from adding someone to the project, and doing the first without the second is the most common reason a shared dashboard will...

The Profile Plot card shows the shape of a linear sensor array and how that shape changes over time. Where a Graph card plots one point against time, a Profile Plot plots the whole run against posi...

The Virtual devices list shows everything configured for the project: its name, the metric it produces, and the expression behind it. You can search it, toggle any one on or off from the list, and ...

BDI Cloud is organized in layers, and your access is granted at a particular layer. That is why two people looking at the same project can see different things, and why the answer to "why can't I d...

The Wind Rose card shows directional data as a polar distribution, so you can see which directions dominate and at what magnitude. A time-series chart cannot answer that question — direction wraps ...

The Device health card shows the current state of a set of devices: the latest value for each metric they report, when it arrived, and whether any of them is alerting. It answers a different questi...

Text and image cards carry the context that makes the measurements interpretable: what the instruments are, where they sit, and what a reader should do about what they see. Neither card type is tie...

The Histogram card groups a device's readings into ranges and shows how many fell into each one. Where a Graph card answers "what happened and when", a histogram answers "how often, and at what mag...

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 rea...