Propeller May - June 2024

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These notes aren't just a list of updates; they're a treasure map to transformative experiences and cutting-edge functionalities. Stay in the know, and you'll gain a competitive edge, discovering hidden gems that can revolutionize your workflow and solve lingering challenges.

June 2024

Streamlined xxperience: DirtMate management features now integrated into the Propeller Mobile App and Platform

We’re deprecating the DirtMate app. Don’t worry though - all of your #DirtMate management tools are now available in the #Propeller Mobile App and Platform.

Using the Propeller Mobile App or Platform you’re able to:

• Manage your DirtMate site setup - set up a new site, manage your base DirtMate, and deactivate a site when moving the hardware to a new site.
• Set site working times, including managing daylight savings.
• Manage your DirtMates - configure each DirtMate to start collecting data per their installation method, and access basic health status.
• Set the data collection times of each DirtMate individually, or several at a time, to maximize battery life and efficiently capture machine data.
• Configure networks already set up on your site or Propeller-provided gateways for your DirtMates to connect to.

If you are on your desktop PC, you can see and use these features in the platform via the Hardware tab.

Don’t have the Propeller app yet?

• Download it on the App Store
• Get it on Google Play

Availability

• Available to all DirtMate customers

May 2024

Weatherproof your worksite: Simulate, Plan & Manage water and rain events with Hydrology Tools

Rain events, flooding, and spills can disrupt operations, leading to costly downtime and potentially severe impacts on worksite safety and efficiency. Our new hydrology tools help you to simulate, plan and prepare for these events, so you can minimize disruption and ensure operational continuity.

Specifically, you can use:

• Flood to Level Analysis to show the potential impact of a flood at specified water levels.
• Surface Runoff Simulation to simulate the path of water flow across a site in response to rainfall or spills. And draw a polygon boundary, then run a simulation for a select area of your site.
• Catchment/Watershed Analysis tools to generate breached stream networks on any region helping you to visualize where water will flow to and from and the catchment areas.
• Direct Rainfall Simulation to simulate and visualize the effects of rainfall over time within a specified area.

Availability

Available to all customers

• Users must have Inspect permissions to access the Hydrology toolset.
• Users will need the Measure permission to use the simulations and the Catchment/Watershed Analysis tools

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Introducing the new Crop Tool: Accurate data, right to the edge

Our latest feature, the Crop tool, empowers you to crop surveys easily.

Draw a polygon to create a new survey boundary.

Specifically, you can

• Draw a custom survey boundary ?
• Edit and remove the crop as needed
• Reuse a crop boundary from a previous survey
• Upload a KML boundary

Cropping surveys offers several advantages. Firstly it helps prevent potentially inaccurate measurements near survey edges. Secondly, it improves the visual appeal of your site with smooth survey edges when sharing site access. Finally, it helps maintain?the overall accuracy of your survey deliverable.

Availability

• Available for: All customers
• Note that only users with Processing permission turned on can create a crop. The crop will be applied to all users.

Measure your way: Select Units for Distance, Area, Volume, and Density

You can now select the most appropriate measurement unit needed when making measurements.

Specifically, you can:

• Select the most appropriate measurement unit for distance, area, volume and density.
• Move between imperial and metric units as needed.
• Create reports in your preferred units.

For example, if you’re measuring a large surface area for a civil construction project - you might prefer to measure the area of a site in acres rather than square feet. You can also choose from 7 other area units and can do the same for volume, distance, density and mass.

Availability

• Available for: All customers

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Manage site data volumes with bulk deletion

You can now see a breakdown of survey datasets for your sites across your portal. And bulk select and delete many survey datasets and output files at once. So you can manage the amount of data stored at a site level.

The bulk delete feature helps you remove stored data quickly and easily, especially helpful if you have a 4TB storage limit.

Availability

• Available for: All customers
• Only users with Edit permission (this includes owners and admins) can delete survey datasets at a site level.

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Storage mystery solved: Check your total data stored

You can now check the total data volume stored for your portal.

From Platform Settings, click on Platform Analytics. Here you’ll see information about the total volume of data stored for your portal shown in gigabytes (GB).

It is useful for those customers with large data storage volumes and those customers with a 4TB storage limit. Learn more

Availability

• Available for: All customers
• Only users who are Portal owners or Administrators can view Platform Analytics??

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