A Web-based Dashboard for the High-level Monitoring of ALMA

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1 A Web-based Dashboard for the High-level Monitoring of ALMA Emmanuel Pietriga a, Giorgio Filippi b, Luis Véliz a, Fernando del Campo a, Jorge Ibsen b,c a INRIA Chile - CIRIC, Santiago, Chile; b ESO, Garching, Germany; c Joint ALMA Office, Santiago, Chile

2 Joint ALMA Observatory

3 ALMA Operations Dashboard Key Objective: ² To create a timely and effective monitoring of key operational processes. Goal: ² To provide an easily accessible, all-in-one-place near-real-time overview of the observatory s key elements and figures to both senior and line management ( without adding overhead to existing day- to-day activities)

4 Project Timeline ² May 2012 First draft project charter ² Nov 2012 JAO Senior Management green light to proceed ² Goal: working prototype focused in ALMA array elements (antennas and electronics) ² Consultancy with INRIA-Chile for prototype development started ² Dec 2012 Development phase initiated ² Apr 2013 Dashboard 1.0, First version deployed in production ² Oct 2013 Second development phase initiated ² Goal: to integrate other elements beyond array elements, adding alternate views on the antenna status data, and improving user interaction with the system. ² Sep 2014 Planned delivery date for Dashboard 1.5

5 Methodology: user-centered design approach ² Participatory design workshops ( 1.5 days) involving a small group of end-users (operators, astronomers, engineers, etc.) who are domainexpert end-users of the Dashboard; ² In-situ interviews with ALMA operators, engineers and astronomers; ² Rapid low-fidelity prototyping of ideas resulting from this workshop; ² Discussions on this basis with stakeholders, gathering feedback and new ideas; ² High-quality implementation of the ideas identified through this process and incremental delivery and ² Deployment of novel features over several months.

6 Decision: Web-based application ² Wide variety of end-users targeted by the Dashboard, ² Needed to facilitate access to it from any device without requiring the installation of specific software components on their computer(s)

7 Starting point: AOS Status Spreadsheet

8 Participatory Design Workshops

9 Dashboard 1.0 Low fidelity prototype

10 Dashboard 1.0

11 Dashboard 1.0

12 Filtering: All Array Elements

13 Filtering: Only ACA Array Elements

14 Filtering: Only ACA Array Elements with B6 operational

15 More info (cursor on comment field)

16 Updating Array Element Status (click on row)

17 Assigning Array Elelment to PAD

18 Time navigation: today

19 Time navigation: many days in the past

20 Timeline: evolution in time of key variables

21 Loogbook

22 Coming up soon with Dashboard 1.5

23 Improved Dashboard Architecture

24 Compact view

25 Multiple array element status editting

26 Filtering revisited: All Array Elements

27 Filtering revisited: AE B6s need attention from science

28 Filtering revisited: AE sorted by overall status

29 Pad status

30 Thanks! Acknowledgements We wish to thank all astronomers, engineers and operators who participated in discussions and provided us with insightful comments and ideas, including: Hector Alarcon, Denis Barkats, Emilio Barrios, Pablo Carillo, Maurizio Chavan, Vasco Cortez, Antonio Hales, Daniel Kent, Ruediger Kneissl, Stéphane Leon Tanne, Gianni Marconi, Rodrigo Olguin, Joaquin Penroz, Diego Rojas, Norman Saez, Masao Saito, Marcus Schilling, Nick Whyborn. The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international astronomy facility, is a partnership of Europe, North America and East Asia in cooperation with the Republic of Chile. ALMA is funded in Europe by the European Organization for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO), in North America by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) in cooperation with the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) and the National Science Council of Taiwan (NSC) and in East Asia by the National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS) of Japan in cooperation with the Academia Sinica (AS) in Taiwan. ALMA construction and operations are led on behalf of Europe by ESO, on behalf of North America by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), which is managed by Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI) and on behalf of East Asia by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ). The Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) provides the unified leadership and management of the construction, commissioning and operation of ALMA.