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SWICOM
Operational Manual

Contents

1. Introduction 4

2. Environmental aspects 5

3. Local Human Machine Interface 6

4. RXplore 20

5. Glossary 27

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Disclaimer Conformity
The data, examples and diagrams in this manual are The products listed in the document comply with
included solely for the concept or product the directive of the Council of the European
description and are not a statement of guaranteed Communities implemented by the laws of the
properties. All persons responsible for applying the Member States relating to electromagnetic
equipment described in this manual must ensure compatibility (EMC Directive 2004/108/EC) and
that each intended application is suitable and concerning electrical equipment for use within
acceptable, and that all applicable safety or other specified voltage limits (Low-voltage directive
operational requirements are complied with. In 2006/95/EC). Such conformity is the result of tests
particular, all risks in applications where a system conducted by ABB in accordance with product
failure and/or product failure would create a risk of standards EN50263 and EN60255-26 for the MEC
harm to property or persons (including but not directive and with product standards EN 60255-1
limited to personal injuries or death) shall be the and EN 60255-27 for the low voltage directive.
sole responsibility of the person or entity who/that
applies the equipment, and such parties are hereby
requested to ensure that all measures are taken to
exclude or mitigate such risks.
This document has been carefully checked by ABB
but discrepancies cannot be completely ruled out. If
are detected, the reader is kindly requested to
notify the manufacturer. With the exception of
explicit contractual commitments, in no event shall
ABB be responsible or liable for any loss or damage
resulting from use of this manual or application of
the equipment.
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Safety Information

Dangerous voltages can occur on the

connectors, even when the auxiliary
voltage has been disconnected.

Non-observance can result in death,

personal injury or substantial property
damage.

Only a competent electrician must be

allowed to perform the electrical
installation tasks.

National and local electrical safety

regulations must always be followed.

SWICOM must be earthed

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Table of contents

1. Introduction 4 4. RXplore 20
1.1. Intended recipients 4 4.1. Introduction 20
1.2. Preamble 4 4.2. Connecting 20
1.3. Revision history 4 4.3. Overview 22
1.4. Related documentation 4 4.3.1. Key Performance Indicators 23
1.5. Symbols 4 4.3.2. Measurements 24
2. Environmental aspects 5 4.3.3. Parameters 24
2.1. Sustainable development 5 4.3.4. Sensors 25
2.2. Disposing of the product 5 4.3.5. Identification 26
2.2.1. Hardware disposal 5 5. Glossary 27
2.2.2. Software disposal 5
2.3. Applicable directives, standards and
compliance 5
3. Local Human Machine Interface 6
3.1. Initialization 6
3.2. Home page 7
3.3. Bay overview 7
3.4. Navigation 8
3.5. Sensors 9
3.6. Key Performance Indicators 10
3.7. Measurements 11
3.8. Files 12
3.9. Wi-fi enabling 13
3.10 Menu 14
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1. Introduction

SWICOM operation manual is intended for users 1.4 Related documentation

who want to operate SWICOM and navigate through
Product series- and product specific manuals can be
the information available in the device.
downloaded from the ABB web site.
SWICOM enables multiple data visualization:
• Local Human Machine Interface
• Local Mobile Application
There is also the possibility to visualize the data via 1.5 Symbols
SCADA system and MyRemoteCare cloud solution. The electrical warning icon indicates the
presence of a hazard which could result
in electrical shock.
1.1. Intended recipients
This manual is for use by the personnel responsible
The warning icon indicates the presence
for having access to the SWICOM data.
of a hazard which could result in
The personnel must possess basic knowledge about
personal injury.
handling electronic equipment.

The caution icon indicates important

1.2. Preamble information or warnings related to the
The SWICOM device needs to be configured as subject discussed in the text. It might
described in the engineering manual from a PC indicate the presence of a hazard which
configuration tool. could result in damage to software,
equipment or property.

The information icon alerts the reader of

USB important facts and conditions.
LAN

The tip icon indicates advice on, for

example, how to design your project or
Figure 1: SWICOM and configuration tool use a certain function.

1.3. Revision history Although warning hazards are related to personal

injury, it is necessary to understand that under
Document Product series History certain operational conditions, operation of
revision/date version
2019-04-10 1.0 First release
damaged equipment may result in degraded
process performance leading to personal injury or
2019-12-31 1.1 Exertherm integration
death. Therefore, comply fully with all warning and
2020-06-15 2.0 SENSeOR PD
integration caution notices.
2020-07-01 2.1 PDCOM integration
MODBUS TCP Server
2021-05-31 2.5 PRPD and MDC4-M
integration

Download the latest documents from

the ABB web site.
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2. Environmental aspects

2.1 Sustainable development SWICOM Parts Material

Sustainability was taken into account from the time Case Parts and screws Steel

product design began and included the pro- HMI Glass

environmental manufacturing process, long life, Case Plastic

operation reliability and disposal of SWICOM. Capacitive film Plastic
The choice of materials and the suppliers was made LCD Liquid Crystal
in accordance with the EU RoHS directive 2011/65/ Electronic modules Various
EU of the European Parliament and of the council of Package Box Cardboard
8 June 2011 on the Restriction of Hazardous Attached material Manuals Paper
Substances in electrical and electronic equipment
Table 1: Product composition
(RoHS Directive).
SWICOM complies with the maximum values for lead
2.2.2 Software disposal
(Pb), mercury, hexavalent chromium,
As general rule when the SWICOM device needs to
polybrominated biphenyls (PBB), polybrominated
be decommissioned, all sensitive information needs
diphenyl ethers (PBDE) and cadmium.
to be deleted from the device as well as from the
Pursuant to EU-regulation REACH that came into
SWICOM Configuration Tool.
force on 1 June 2007, the products are solely non-
chemical. Moreover, the products supplied will not
Note: in the current SWICOM FW version no
release any substances under normal and
particular sensitive information needs are
reasonably foreseeable application circumstances.
envisaged.

2.2 Disposing of the product 2.3 Applicable directives,

2.2.1 Hardware disposal
Definitions and regulations concerning hazardous
materials are country-specific and change as
knowledge of materials increases. The materials
used in this product are typical for electric and
electronic devices.
All parts used in this product are recyclable. When
disposing of SWICOM or its parts contact a local
waste handler who is authorized and specialized in
disposing of electronic waste. These handlers can
sort the material by using dedicated sorting
processes and dispose of the product in accordance
with local requirements.
standards and compliance
The following directives, standards and compliances
are applicable to SWICOM:
• Electrostatic Discharges Immunity test
• Radiated Electromagnetic RF- Field immunity test
• Conducted Low Frequency Immunity test
• EFT Immunity test: EN61000-4-4
• Surge immunity: EN61000-4-5
• Common Mode Conducted RF-Immunity test:
EN61000-4-6
• Power frequency magnetic field Immunity test:
EN61000-4-8
• Slow Damped Oscillatory Wave Immunity test
• DC Voltage Dips, Interruptions and Variations
• AC component (Ripple) in DC
• Pulse Magnetic Field Immunity test
• Low Frequency conducted disturbances Immunity
test
• Conducted Field emission test: CISPR 11
• Radiated Field Emission test
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3. Local Human Machine Interface

SWICOM has a LCD screen and a home LED button
on the bottom that shows the overview status of the
monitored assets in the switchgear.
3.1 Initialization
When SWICOM is turned on it lands on the home
page where it shows an overview of the connected
bays and environmental sensors.
If the configuration is properly downloaded to the
device, SWICOM displays the overall asset fleet as
shown in Figure 3.

Home LED
Button

Figure 3: home page

Figure 2: SWICOM HMI

The LED colour changes according to the overall In case the configuration is missing SWICOM
switchgear status: displays the following text error:
• Green colour is shown when all assets are in
normal operating condition.
• Yellow colour is shown when at least one asset is
in warning,
• Red colour is shown when at least one asset is in
alarm
• Red blinking colour is shown when at least one
asset is in lockout.
• White colour is shown when at least one sensor is
not communicating.

When the home LED button is pressed SWICOM Figure 4: configuration missing

goes back to the home page in which all the Bays

fleet is displayed.
If there is an IP conflict in the network SWICOM
The home LED button is always active, while the
displays the following text error:
screen switches off after inactivity time.

Figure 5: ethernet error

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3.2 Home page The vertical bar on the right side shows an overview
of the status of all monitored assets. In Figure 7 the
One SWICOM device can monitor up to 24 Bays. Each
vertical bar on the right side alerts the user that
Bay represents the associated panel that SWICOM is
there are some items not visible in the list, which are
monitoring, apart from the case in which there are
in alarm state.
multiple relays per panel.
In SWICOM home page is shown an overview of the
fleet with a list of the monitored assets (Bays,
environmental sensors).

Figure 7: home status bar Overview of status

in vertical bar

Figure 6: SWICOM fleet overview

It is possible to see them scrolling the list or

The following colours are used to show the overall changing the sorting mode, as shown in Figure 8.
bay status based on the worst Key Performance
Sorting mode
Indicator (KPI) [see 3.6]: change

Undefined: there are no KPIs

data for the monitored asset

Ok: the monitored asset is in

normal operating condition

Warning: the monitored asset is in

warning condition

Alarm: the monitored asset is in

critical condition

Lockout: the monitored asset is in

Figure 8: asset in alarm state
lockout condition

3.3 Bay overview

The bay buttons, in the home page, give access to
the related asset monitoring details. Every asset and
environment have three sections:
• Sensors: a list of all sensor devices configured to
monitor this asset [see 3.5]
• KPIs: a list of all key performance indicators [see
3.6] used to calculate the asset status
• Measurements: a list of all measurements
collected by SWICOM from the configured sensors.
• Files: a list of PRPD files saved on SWICOM [3.8]
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3.4 Navigation The central area is dedicated to show the list of

items related to the current section.
To navigate through sections described in 3.3 and to
Displayed items can contain a measured value or a
access all information provided by SWICOM there’s a
coloured bar indicating a different status (see next
common friendly interface shown here:
sections 3.6 and 3.7 for section specific
information).

Figure 11: Percentage bar indicators

In Figure 11 the items show a percentage bar, where

the colour is determined by the alarm and warning
Figure 9: Bay section interface thresholds configured.

The commands to move between sections and

through subsections are always located on the top
Figure 12: Status bar indicator
bar and on the right side of the interface.
• The title at the center of the top bar shows the A simple coloured bar is displayed when an item has
asset and section current displayed status information only, as shown in Figure 12
• The white arrow on the upper left corner allows to
move to the upper section up to the home page
• The icon on the right side of the top bar changes
Figure 13: measured value
the sorting order of the elements in the list, there
are 3 possible orders and every click on the icon An item displaying a measured value shows the
changes the current order looping over the value and its measurement unit (if available), as
available ones. The three available sorting orders shown in Figure 13
are:
Every item in this area can also display an icon with a
-- Descending severity: the status of items on the
warning sign of different colours.
top of the list is more critical
-- Ascending severity: the status of items on top of
the list is less critical
-- Natural order: items are listed in a predefined de- Figure 14: invalid value

fault order
• The two blue arrows on the left side change the A red warning sign as shown in Figure 14 alerts that
current page moving to the next or previous the value displayed has an invalid quality [cfr. data
section (Sensors, KPIs, Measurements) quality definition specified in IEC61850].
• The numbers on the left side show the current
displayed section and the total number of
available sections
Figure 15: questionable data

Move to upper Current displayed

menu screen section

Move to
Figure 16: questionable values
previous
page

Page 2 of 4 A yellow sign shows (figure 15 and figure 16) that the
is curently
displayed
displayed data has a questionable quality [cfr. data
quality definition specified in IEC61850] because
the collected value is for example too old and could
Move
to next be not reliable now.
page

Figure 10: interface navigation commands

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Figure 17: information area Figure 19: relay nameplate example

An example of nameplate information for a

3.5. Sensors temperature Reader is presented here:
In the first page of asset details, the interface shows
the list of all devices from which the SWICOM is
collecting data. Every device is identified by a name
and a coloured bar reporting the sensor status.
Each colour corresponds to a different device
status:

Grey: the device has never been

connected and data initialization is not
done yet

Green: the device is connected and it is Figure 20: sensor nameplate example

working
Red: connection is lost or the device is not
working properly
Black: it indicates a fatal error not
recoverable, e.g. the configured sensor is
incompatible with the installed device
An example of this screen is shown in Figure 18:
In this screen it is possible to see which sensor
(vendor and model) is installed to monitor the asset,
the serial number allows a technician to exactly
identify the device in a complex installation and the
hardware and software revisions can provide
information about sensor update status.
Some sensor devices can monitor more than one
asset, in this situation a central unit can be installed
in one location, but its probes can be placed
elsewhere. The described configuration can be
easily identified on the SWICOM interface looking at
nameplate data as shown in Figure 18. An additional
field Location is present in the nameplate section
and it contains the bay name where the sensor
central unit is installed.

Figure 18: bay condition monitoring status

Clicking on a sensor item a detailed nameplate data

page will be displayed.
Information presented in this page can differ from
one device to another. An example of a Relay
nameplate data is shown below: Figure 21: multi-bay sensor nameplate example
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3.6. Key Performance Indicators

The second page of asset details section shows the
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) related to each
phenomenon SWICOM is monitoring.
KPIs are grouped by monitoring areas and for every
group an overall status is displayed with a coloured
bar. A list of some available monitoring areas is:
• Temperature: KPIs of components or environment
temperatures
• Humidity: values related to detected humidity
• Partial discharge: KPIs related to partial discharge
Figure 23: temperature KPIs list
reading

The first item in the Partial Discharge KPIs list, PD

An example of KPIs groups is shown in Figure 22
Status is used to indicate if there are recent PD
where there are 3 entries:
events. In the following entries there are indicators
• CB: a list of all KPIs related to CB internal
about the asset status in the previous 7 days and in
operation, the grey bar indicates that there are no
the previous 28 days to easily evaluate PD events
data collected
trend.
• Temperature: all KPIs related to temperature
monitoring can be found in this group. The yellow
bar indicates that there’s a warning condition
which means one or more temperature KPIs have
values in the warning region.
• PD Antenna 1 (A – B): the partial discharge KPIs
group has a green bar because there are no partial
discharge indicators that exceeds the configured
thresholds.

Figure 24: partial discharge KPIs list

The same KPIs section is available for the

environment bay as shown in Figure 25.

Figure 22: bay KPI

Clicking on the temperature KPIs group it is possible

to expand it and see all the temperature KPIs, as
Figure 25: environment KPIs
shown in Figure 23. This information can be useful
to find the cause of a problem: in the following
example the warning condition is generated by an
anomalous temperature value in the “Apparatus
Compartment”.
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3.7. Measurements Every measurements group can be expanded to see

the real time values as shown in Figure 27.
The third section shows the measurements
collected by sensors and devices which the SWICOM
is connected to. Measurements are grouped by
monitoring area as described for KPIs [see 3.6].

Figure 27: temperature measurements

Figure 26: measurements groups list

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3.8. Files
The fourth section gives access to PRPD historical
data saved into SWICOM internal storage.
When an interesting event has been found the user
can export the data on a SD card to analyze them
offline. Pressing the Export button, a configurable
filter is provided to easily select the desired files.
The filter is accessible from the Files pages or from
the Home page. Pressing the Export button from
the LastDay or History page the filter parameters
are pre-configured to copy the group of images
containing the displayed one as visible in Figure 30.

Figure 28: files screen

The files are grouped based on type (e.g. PRDP is the

only type at the moment) and on time range
(LastDay or History).
• LastDay contains all PRPD images collected in the
last 24 hours Figure 30: pre-configured filter

• History contains for every day in the past a

summary of PRPD events. The summary is
The filter usage is described in Chapter_3.10.3.
composed of 3 groups
-- Minimum
-- Average
-- Maximum

Accessing one of the two sections it is possible to

browse the images with buttons in the lower bar of
HMI as described in Figure 29.

Export button

Date,time, group (*)

and phase of the current
displayed image

Change image Move to previous Change displayed

background color acquired image image group (*)

Access the calendar to Move to next Change displayed

(*) options available only jump to a specific time acquired image phase
for History section in the history (*)

Figure 29: files page navigation commands

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3.9. Wi-fi enabling
From SWICOM home page it is possible to access to
the Wi-fi section by clicking on the Wi-fi icon
Every device with SWICOM Local Mobile Application
can now have access to SWICOM device information.
Note: Just one Mobile phone or tablet per time can
be connected to SWICOM.

on the right side upper corner.

Figure 34: Wi-fi connected

Figure 31: Wi-fi (disabled) section

Once the user has clicked the Wi-fi icon he can
access the following page:
When the device Mobile Application is connected to
the SWICOM the Wi-Fi icon in the home page
changes from grey to white colour, as shown in the
above picture.
When the Wi-fi is active and enabled, the Wi-fi icon
on the SWICOM homepage would be shown in white
as shown in the following picture.

Figure 32: Wi-fi enabling

The Wi-fi is enabled by clicking the Enable button

shown in figure 31.
Once the Wi-fi is enabled SWICOM displays a QR Figure 35: Wi-Fi active

code and a message above the Enable button with

the indication that Wi-fi is enabled.

Figure 33: Wi-fi enabled

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3.10. Menu 3.10.1.1. View

In ”View” tab it is possible to check the asset list
The menu icon on the left side upper corner of
with the overall communication status as shown in
SWICOM home page allows to access a
figure 22:
configuration area as shown in figure 20:

Figure 39: view system menu

Figure 36: home page menu

By selecting one Bay it is possible to see the

The configuration area menu is composed by 3 main
communication status of each device connected to
sections:
SWICOM related to the chosen Bay.
• System: SWICOM global configurations and
information
• Application: assets parameters and thresholds
• Language: interface language

Figure 40: communication status of bay

3.10.1.2. Administration
Figure 37: main menu By clicking ”Administration” tab the user can access
to the ”Clock” tab.
3.10.1. System
System section is divided into three sublevel shown
in Figure 38:
• View: reports the communication status with the
sensor devices
• Administration: it allows to show/edit clock
configuration
• Identification: it shows SWICOM device
information

Figure 41: clock

Figure 38: system menu

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By clicking ”Clock” tab the user can see the current 3.10.1.3. Identification
time. By clicking on the ”Identification” tab the user can
access to the SWICOM nameplate shown in figure
43:
• Product name
• Assembly serial number
• Board serial number
• Application loader version
• Software version
• SWICOM name
• Project name
• Project version

Figure 42: set time and date

By pressing button the user can cancel the

current time/date and edit it.
By Clicking “Ok” button the user can confirm the
time edit; the user can press “Cancel” button
avoiding any change in the time setting.
Both “Ok” and “Cancel” buttons bring the user to
the “Clock” tab level.
Whenever a new time is set SWICOM does a check on Figure 45: identification menu

the entered data, if there are errors in the format a

warning message is shown as in figure 41:
3.10.2. Application
By clicking on the Application tab the user can
access the Files section or the parameters section.

Figure 43: editing error

If SWICOM is connected to a SNTP server it is not

possible to change the time and SWICOM displays
Figure 46: application menu
the Error shown in figure 42:

Figure 44: not writing parameter

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3.10.3. Files After filter parameters configuration completed, a

SWICOM can save collected PRPD files on a SD card, user can press the Export button in the right upper
the HMI files filter section allows to select the files corner to start the copy. The copy operation can
of interest based on several parameters before take a bit of time especially when PNG format has
starting the copy operation. Four parameters can be been selected, during the procedure a progress bar
configured with the tabs on the left: is displayed with an estimated remaining time
• Files: it allows to select the file based on the bay (Figure 49) and a Stop button is available to abort
where the PDCOM is installed (see Figure 30) the operation.
• Severity: PRPD files are classified with 3 severity
levels, based on this classification it is possible to
export only the images where the PD events have a
specific severity (Figure 46)
• Time: PRPD images can be selected based on a
specified time range (Figure 47)
-- for historical data that have been already summa-
rized (see 3.8), a time range can be selected with
a simple graphical calendar
-- for the last day acquisitions all the images are ex-
ported.
• Format: data can be exported in a binary format or
Figure 49: time range selection
in PNG format (Figure 48)

Figure 47: BAY selection

Figure 50:file format selection

When the process is successfully terminated on the

SD card a directory structure is created as in Figure
51.

Figure 48: severity selection

Figure 51: export procedure in progress

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• A SWICOM root directory is created if not already 3.10.4. Parameters

present. By clicking on each tab the user can access the
-- An EXPORT.XXX directory with an increasing num- Functions level in which it is possible to visualize the
ber is created for every export operation. list of parameters associated to each asset. The
• A SWICOM.TXT file is created containing the circuit breaker analytics are identified by the name
map between the directory names and the of each analytics the use wants to monitor. The
bay names of your project. The content of other analytics (e.g. temperature) are identified by
this file can be seen in Figure 52. the name of the sensor the user decided to install in
- The Name column contains the object the Bay.
name configured in the SWICOM project.
- The Entity column contains the
corresponding name of folder written on
SD card
-- A BAY_XX directory is created for every selected
bay. To map these folders to the BAY name displa-
yed on SWICOM HMI and in the Configuration Tool
a file named SWICOM.TX is available (see previous
point)
• A folder for every exported group is created
(now only PRPD is available)
- A folder for every time range group is
Figure 54: functions page
created (LastDay or History data)

By selecting a proper function SWICOM displays the

actual monitored value, the warning/alarm
thresholds and the quality values.

Figure 55: CB open time parameters

Figure 52: SD card exported directory tree

Figure 53: exported bay mapping file

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3.10.4.1 Editing functionality By selecting one of the parameter the customer can
By clicking ”EDIT” tab in the right side upper corner edit the suitable parameter.
the user can edit all the modifiable parameters in
each Bay.

Figure 59: parameters editing

Once the change is finished the user can simply

Figure 56: edit mode
A ”COMMIT” and ”DISCARD” button appears above
the main tabs to confirm the user is entered in
”EDIT” mode.
select “OK” to confirm the new values.
In order to complete the parameters change the
user shall return to the Application level and select
“COMMIT”; In case by clicking “DISCARD” the user
can maintain the existing parameter configuration.

Figure 57: COMMIT - DISCARD Figure 60: commit or discard

A blue pen icon is displayed to let the user modify The following message is displayed to confirm the
the parameters.(e.g. Clicking ”BAY_A” button and commitment.
selecting ”CB Open” function all the related
parameters are shown)

Figure 61: commit confirmation

Figure 58: parameters list for editing

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By clicking “YES” it is possible to update the new
parameters as shown below
Figure 62: configuration stored
By clicking “NO” it is possible to maintain the
previous parameters value.
By clicking “DISCARD” the user can maintain the
existing parameter configuration
The following message is displayed to confirm the
discard:
Figure 63: discard confirmation
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By clicking “NO” it is possible to remain in the
“Application” level in ”EDIT” mode
Figure 64: edit mode
3.9.3. Language
By clicking on the “Language” tab the user can
select the language. Once the language is defined
SWICOM menu automatically returns to the home
page. All the tabs are shown in the new selected
language.
Figure 65: language menu
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4. RXplore

The RXplore mobile application is compatible with 4.2 Connecting

the version 2.X of the SWICOM.
The user can connect the SWICOM to the same
network as the mobile device running RXplore. The
user can navigate to the Ethernet configuration data
4.1 Introduction on the SWICOM to find the IP address of the device.
RXplore is compatible for both Android and IOS The user can create a Site in the “Sites” tab in
platforms. It is composed of three main tabs: To RXplore with an IP address range which contains the
• Sites SWICOM IP. Once the Site is created, user can
• Connect to Relay navigate into the Site details by tapping on the Site
• Options list item. In the Site details page, user can tap
“Discover Relays” to find the SWICOM. Once
SWICOM is discovered, it can be tapped to access
the Overview page.
The user can also connect to the SWICOM via
SWICOM Wi-Fi hotspot by navigating to the Connect
to Relay -tab and using the QR-code scanner to read
the SWICOM Wi-Fi QR-code.

Figure 66: add new site Figure 67: input site details Figure 68: discover relays
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Figure 69: relay discovered Figure 70. SWICOM discovered Figure 71. Connect via QR code scanner
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4.3. Overview
Undefined Ok
After establishing the connection the user can
access the Overview page.
Warning Alarm

Lockout

The colours used to represent the status of the bay

are the same as for the colours used for the LHMI

The page shows an overview of the Bays connected

Figure 72. SWICOM overview page
to the SWICOM with their corresponding health
condition reflected by the colour to the left of the
bay name.
• Grey colour is used to represent the case in which
one device connected to SWICOM is not
communicating.
• All the other colours (green, yellow, red and black)
are used in case the device connected to SWICOM
is properly communicating:
• Green: the monitored asset is in normal operating
condition
• Yellow: the monitored asset is in warning
condition
• Red: the monitored asset is in critical condition
• Black: the monitored asset is in lockout condition
The same colour definition is applied to the Key
Performance Indicators (KPI) of each bay and the
environment.
By clicking on each “Bay” item the user can access to
the Bay overview page. The page is composed of
four categories
• Key Performance Indicators
• Measurements
• Parameters
• Sensors (introduced in Swicom 2.x)
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By tapping the list items the user can access deeper
into the sublevels. In SWICOM 1.x there is only 1
sublevel which displays the selected items (e.g.
Parameters). In SWICOM 2.x there is an additional
sublevel for displaying asset groups, each group
containing items in its category.
Figure 73. Bay overview page
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4.3.1. Key Performance Indicators
The KPIs page displays the estimated health of
different analytics monitored in the Bay. Each
analytics represented by a health status colour and
in addition a numeric value from 0 to 100
representing the signal quality in percentage.
Figure 74. KPIs page (temperature group)
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4.3.2. Measurements 4.3.3. Parameters

The “Measurements” page shows all the The “Parameters” page shows a list of the
measurements available for the selected Bay. Each parameters available in the selected group of
measurement is defined by its name and a parameters of the selected bay/environment.
dimensional value corresponding to the last
measure retrieved from the devices that are
connected to SWICOM, and a numeric value from 0
to 100 representing the signal quality in percentage.

Figure 76. parameters page

Figure 75. measurements page

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4.3.4. Sensors
The Sensors page displays the sensors available in
the selected bay/environment, together with the
health status of each of them, and allows the user to
select a sensor to see its nameplate information.

Figure 77: Sensors page Figure 78: Sensor details page

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4.3.5. Identification
By clicking in the “Identification” hyperlink text on
the SWICOM overview page the user can access to
the nameplate information about the SWICOM
device.

Figure 79: SWICOM identification page

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5. Glossary

Throughout the document, “panel” and “bay” are

synonyms.

Term Description
CB Circuit Breaker
CT Configuration Tool - for SWICOM devices-
LHMI Local Human Machine Interface
HMI Human Machine Interface
IED Intelligent Electronic Device
KPI Key Performance Indicator
M&D Monitoring and Diagnostic
LED Light Emitting Diode
PC Personal Computer (mainly Windows based)
LMA Local Mobile Application
IP Internet Protocol
LCD Liquid Crystal Display
USB Universal Serial Bus
UTC Universal Coordinated Time
QR Quick Response
SNTP Simple Network Time Protocol
RF Radio Frequency
PD Partial Discharge
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