Interface Quick Start

To use the Inniti platform, you need to have an Inniti system online with at least one Inniti Connector connected to the power box and powered on. Instructions on how to do so can be found in the System Setup guide.

Access your user account

To access the Inniti platform, you need to have an account. Please contact us if you have any issues accessing it.

Once you have accessed the interface, you will be redirected to your main research space. The research space gives an overview of your entire Inniti system.

From the research space, you can access your recently modified experiments, shared projects and the history of your experiments.

Create a new experiment

To create a new experiment, click on Create New in the top right corner and choose Experiment.

You will open the experiment layout design page which shows all online units in the top canvas and the experiment device area in the bottom canvas. The experiment device area is where you will select the devices when programming your experiment.

Setup an experiment

The first step of designing your experiment is using the platform to layout your units and equipment. The available (online and not currently in use) Inniti Connectors are displayed in the Units canvas while the lower canvas shows the current experiment layout.

To design your experiment, you should first choose the units that you want to include either by clicking on the unit in the Units canvas or by dragging it from the top canvas to the bottom one.

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Notice that hovering over a unit in the interface causes it to blink in real life. This should help you to be sure you are selecting the correct devices for your experiment.

You can draw connections between devices, using the Inniti platform as documentation of the experiment setup.

When all your units to be included in the experiment are in the experiment device area, click Continue in the bottom right.

To allow other people to access your experiment, add it to a project. If you don't have any projects, just click Keep it private for now.

Program an experiment

The Inniti platform uses a step-based approach to experiment programming. Each step has actions that it will take until the conditions to change to the next step have been satisfied.

In the top canvas, you can design the experiment flow by adding steps and entry conditions for the next steps while the bottom canvas controls what happens in the selected step. For sensors, you can control the logging type and interval and for actuators you can define their actions.

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Want to have an experiment with no end condition? Just delete all steps except Step A and conditions and Step A will run until you manually stop it.

First name your experiment by clicking in the experiment name box in the top left.

Then you can define the actions that you want to take in Step A. In this example, we just have a sensor so we just set the logging interval to every one second by clicking on the drop-down on the unit in the bottom canvas and choosing the logging type. You can also choose different actions to be taken in Step B.

Choose the entry condition you want for Step B. You are able to use either a time condition as a trigger or the value of a sensor.

Here we have chosen Step B to start after Step A has run for 10 seconds.

To complete your experiment, you need to use an Until block so click on the ->| button and draw a line to attach it to Step B. Same as the condition block for Step B, choose an exit condition for the experiment, e.g. stop after Step B has run for 1 minute.

Run your first experiment

Start the experiment by clicking Start in the bottom right corner.

This will open the Live Data page which shows all running experiments.

Add a graph by clicking on the Add graph button then choose the measurement to plot on the graph. You can add as many graphs as you like.

You have now run your first experiment. Well done!