RSC2 Manual

Road Sensor Control Software for Retrometer LTL-X

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Revision June 2012

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RSC2-program
The Road Sensor Control program, RSC2, is intended for managing your work with
the LTL-X.
RSC2 provides the following features:
• Setting up user profiles
• Project Planning
• Log management

Requirements
The program will run on computers with Windows XP or higher installed.
Connection to the PC is via USB.

Installation
Insert the RSC2 CD-ROM into your CDROM drive and the installation will start auto-
matic. If the AutoRun feature is disabled on your computer run /SETUP.EXE directly
from the CDROM.

Setup installs RSC2 in the specified location and creates an RSC2 icon on the desk-
top and a shortcut in the start menu.

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RSC2 layout
In RSC2 you can select among multiple pages, by selecting the tabs below the menu
bar.
The available tabs are:

On all tabbed screens you have a status bar, which holds information about the LTL-
X and RSC2 setup.

Connect Status

LTL-X Time / Date

Status information

The Connect Status Icon shows if a LTL-X is connected or not. When no LTL-X is
connected, this icon will be gray.

The time and date field is continuously updated from the LTL-X. If the LTL-X is dis-
connected or turned off, the time and date will disappear. The time will be shown in
the format corresponding to your current regional Windows settings.
The selected user name and active communication port is also shown in the status
bar and finally, status information, informing you about the status of your actions.

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User profiles
RSC2 provides a range of individual user-settings; these settings may be saved as a
User profile in RSC2. The user profiles may be prepared and stored in the RSC2
program for later upload to LTL-X.

User Setup
In RSC2 you can change the following LTL-X user settings:

Language selection:
Select a Language in LTL-X. This setting only affects the language in LTL-X.

Setup Type:
Basic or Advanced setup-type may be selected. By selecting Basic, several set-
tings will not be displayed in LTL-X (see the LTL-X manual for details).

Log Warning:
The Log can hold more than 1500 measurements. By selecting “Warning” a warn-
ing will be displayed, when the log is full. When “Overwrite” is selected, the oldest
measurement will be overwritten, without a warning (see the LTL-X manual for
details).

Smart Key Function:

Smart Key lets you assign a dedicated function to the LTL-X smart-key.

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 Backlight:
Backlight timer that controls the LCD Backlight turn on time, max time is 30 sec-
onds.

Auto Off:
Auto Off timer determines how long the LTL-X stays on if no user activity is de-
tected. Available Auto Off values are: OFF, 60, 120, 180, 240 or 300 seconds.

Key Click Volume:

Key Click Volume sets the key-click sound.

Sound Volume:
Sound Volume sets the systems sound volume.

Beep:
Enable the Beep sound after completing a measurement by selecting Beep En-
able.

Preferred road-markings:
Preferred Project Road Markings displays the selected predefined road markings
used when a new Series ID is added to a project (in the project pane). The mark-
ings are uploaded to LTL-X together with the project Series ID.
By double clicking the marking a window is displayed allowing you to select your
preferred markings from a list.

Preparing a profile:
1. Select the “User-setup”-pane in the RSC2-program

2. Press “Add User” button.

3. Enter your initials in the User-selection box.

4. Customize your profile, by selecting the different settings.

Removing a user profile:

1. Select the user you want to remove
2. Press “Delete User”

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Storing user-profiles
User-profiles are automatically saved in an Ini file, when the RSC2 program is
closed.

Uploading a profile
Press the “Upload User settings” button

When you upload a user profile to the LTL-X, RSC2 searches the list of users cur-
rently in the instrument, if the new username already exist in the LTL-X, the user set-
tings for that username will be updated. RSC2 treats the list of user names as a his-
tory list. If the upper six users in this list also exist in the LTL-X, RSC2 will replace the
names from the bottom to the top, of this list, i.e. the username at the bottom of the
username list in RSC will be the first to be replaced in LTL-X.

RSC2 can’t replace username 7 or 8 in the LTL-X by other usernames. However

RSC2 is able to update the settings of these users, if the same username is created
in RSC2. The names of user 7 and 8 must therefore be changed manually in LTL-X.

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Project pane:
In the Project pane you can manage a project, for later upload.

Print Current Project

Download Project from LTL-X

Upload Project to LTL-X

Clear All ID’s in LTL-X

Clear Project

Remove selected ID

Add New ID

Save Current Project

Load Project

Create a new project:

1. Press the Add New ID button
2. Enter a name for the ID
3. Press Enter

When you add an ID, six Road Markings will be displayed. These markings are iden-
tical to the preferred markings setup for the current RSC2 user. However, the mark-
ings can be changed by double clicking on them individually and then select a new
marking from the list.

To append an ID between two existing ID’s press the CTRL while clicking the

Double click on the Series ID name to change it.

If an ID containing more than 19 letters is entered, the ID will be truncated after
prompting the user.

The purpose of a series ID

The Series ID is a label. For example, it could be the name of the road.
Although measurements can be performed without selecting a Series ID, it is conven-
ient to group (name) the measurements for each geographical spot, road or part of a
road for easier recognition of each measurement.
The Series ID for such a group of measurements will be saved in the log together
with the measuring results. The ID must be selected prior to the measurement.

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Uploading a project to LTL-X
To upload a project to the LTL-X, just press the Upload button.
When uploaded, you can select the Series ID on LTL-X by clicking on the icon
in the top row of the LTL-X measure window.

Downloading a project to RSC

To append the ID’s from the LTLX to your current project, press the Download but-
ton. If you want your project to contain the ID’s in LTL-X, you should clear the project
page before you download the project to RSC.

Saving a project:
If you want to save the project on the pc for later use, press the Save button.

Loading a project
To open a project file, press the Load Project button.
The project files are text files that can be edited in a normal text editor. Each line in
the text file represents a Series ID, normally the ID is followed by 6 comma separated
numbers, representing the 6 road markings. If only an ID is provided, the Preferred
Marking, from the user setup will be used. If a line in the project file contains between
1 and 5 markings, an error message is displayed.
If an ID contains more than 19 letters, the ID will be truncated after prompting the
user.

Printing a project
Press the Print Project button. The print button will be disabled, if the ID list is empty.

Clearing a Project
If you want to delete your project, press the Clear Project button.

Clear LTL-X ID’s

If you want to delete all Series ID’s stored in the LTL-X, press the Clear LTL-X ID’s.
Note: All log data with Series ID will be deleted!

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Log pane
In the Log pane you can read the data stored in the LTL-X Log.

By selecting the Read Log button the whole log content will be downloaded
from the LTL-X.

In the log pane you see a row of tool buttons:

From left to right, the toolbar holds the following buttons:

• Open protected file
• Save protected file
• Save Excel file
• Save CSV file
• Download Log from LTL-X into Log page
• Clear RSC2 Log page
• Clear LTL-X Log
• Print Log page
• Copy the GPS position of the selected row to clipboard.
• Show GPS positions
• Export to Google Earth

A Log page:

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And an extra Log status bar:

When the LTL-X is connected, the log status bar holds information about log usage.
The number of used and free entries and series is displayed.

If Series ID’s are used during measuring the log page will contain several tabs
named with the Series ID plus one showing all the
data. The tabs will act like a filter showing only the respective data.
The selected tab will become the active log page.

All selected:

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Road01 selected:

Note: the user can change uploaded log data at any time by double clicking the cell
where data is going to be changed. These changes are reflected in both Excel and
CSV files; however, the protected file will always contain the original data.

Loading a Protected file

You can open a Protected file by pressing this button.

A Protected file is an encrypted log file, having the extension RSC.

The purpose of the Protected file is to secure your work. By saving or forwarding a
Protected file, you can document that your work has not been manipulated. En-
crypted Protected files can only be loaded and used in the RSC2 program.

Saving a Protected file

When the log has been read, you may want to save it in a Protected file-format.

Even if you edit the Log page, and manipulate the data, the original data is retained,
and you can save it at any time.

Saving an Excel file

The active log page may be saved as an Excel file at any time. The Excel file will,
however not contain any graphical presentation, i.e. Road Markings. Graphical infor-
mation’s will be shown as a number.

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Saving a CSV file
You may save the active log page as a Comma Separated file. This ensures that you
can export log data to almost any other application.

Clear RSC2 Log

The Clear Page button lets you clear the Log page on your computer.

Clear LTL-X Log

The Clear Log button lets you clear the Log in the LTL-X. When this is done, all log
data in the LTL-X will be lost.

Print Log
The Print Log button lets you print the contents of active log page.

Show GPS Position

When you press this button, the GPS information will be displayed in the Log page. If
you choose to save the Log page, the information will be preserved, even if the GPS
position is hidden.

Export GPS data to Google Earth

You can export log data containing GPS positions to Google Earth.

Before exporting data you must select the data lines to be shown. If no data are se-
lected the program will automatically select all data lines.
Data can be selected by using the regular windows way:
shift + left mouse click selects a group.
ctrl + left mouse click selects / deselects single entries.

When you press this button , a new window will open to setup the parameters for
the export.

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If log data represents downloaded data (not data from a protected file) the file name
will be a combination of the instrument (LTL-X), the serial number (e.g. 515) and the
selected Series ID. The extension must be .kml.

In the Limits section you can enter a value controlling the appearance of the data
shown in Google Earth (GE). Rl values less than the value in the low limit box will be
shown with the low color. Rl values higher will be shown with the high color.

In the Labels section you can decide the appearance of the text shown on the meas-
urements shown on the screen. In the example below ID(seq) are shown

If Auto start Google Earth is checked GE will start automatic when OK is pressed and
the position of the measurements (from the .kml file) will be shown.
If Auto start Google Earth is unchecked you can double click on the .kml file to start
GE and showing the measurements.

The text shown with the data point in GE is the Series ID and sequence number for
the Rl measurement.
If you click on a data point in GE a box will pop up showing the further information
about the measurement e.g. the Rl value.

Note:
Google Earth must be installed on your
pc to view the kml data file.

Using "Google Software" you agree

to be bound by the following terms
of service as well as the terms found
on our Legal Notices page at
http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/hel
p/legalnotices_maps.html or existing
“Google Terms of Service”.

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Understanding Log contents
A line in the Log page represents a single log entry. The selected Road Marking will
be displayed as an icon that is identical to the one shown in the LTL-X display.
Every measurement has a Status word associated. This status word is presented as
a smilie. Three different smilies are possible:

The faces correspond to

Green: Measurement is good, i.e. no errors or warnings.
Yellow: A warning occurred, but the measurement is valid.
Red: An error occurred, i.e. the measurement must be discarded.

A sad smilie may occur if multiple warnings were detected. In this case the result
may still be useable (see the LTL-X manual for details).

If you double click on a smilie, a window will be displayed, specifying what particular
error or warning occurred.

When you click on a smilie, the status code is copied into Status Code converter in
the Options pane.

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The following warnings and errors may occur:

Type Text Meaning

Error Measurement error Some error occurred during meas-
urement.

Error Xenon timeout error The Xenon lamp did not flash.

Error Stray light Stray light was detected.

Error More than 40 signal values were satu- The signal gain is too high i.e. 40 or
rated more samples were out of range.

Error Calculation error This might both be an arithmetic, or

a instrument fault.

Warn Low Xenon voltage The voltage was low during meas-
urement.

More than 20 signal values were satu- A high signal was detected, i.e. 20
rated or more measurements are out of
range. This is still acceptable, but
the accuracy of the measurement
will be decreased.

Low Signal or Reference offset voltage The 0-level of the signal or the ref-
erence was low. The instrument
should be serviced.

Reference Peak low The reference signal was low. The

instrument should be serviced.

Reference Peak high The reference signal is too high,

but not saturated. The instrument
should be serviced.

Variance > 3 % This warning only occurs when do-

ing a calibration. If some of the
measurements in a calibration de-
viate more than 3% this warning
will be displayed.
Calibrations are not stored in the
log.

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An icon displaying information about the state of the GPS is displayed too. Three dif-
ferent icons indicate the different states of the GPS data:

FIX: A valid GPS position fix was associated to the measurement.

?: The GPS was turned on, but no fix was associated to the measurement.
X: The GPS was turned off when the measurement was made.

If you double click on the GPS-icon, a message box will display the position or the
state of the GPS, i.e. not fixed or no GPS data present.

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Options pane
In the Options pane you may setup settings that have influence on your measure-
ments.

When a LTL-X is connected, the extra status bar at the bottom displays information
about the current settings in the LTL-X. If the LTL-X is disconnected, or turned off,
the Status bar will be cleared.

Enable GPS:
You may turn GPS on and off.

Copy PC Time to LTL-X:

Pressing the Synchronize Clock button will synchronize the LTL-X date- and time
with your computer clock.

Average Settings:
You can setup the LTL-X to manage average measurements.
Selecting the Enable Average checkbox enables the build in average function.
Two kinds of averaging are supported:
Moving average and Fixed average (see LTL-X manual for details).
The number of measurements used for the average calculation is user defined and
must be in the range from 2 to 25.

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Convert Log Status:
You can convert a numerical instrument status from the log to a more readable form
explaining in clear text exactly what conditions led to the status number. Numbers
may be entered in both as decimal and hexadecimal.
When you click on a smilie in the log page, the status code is copied into this con-
verter field.

Uploading options
After setting up the preferred settings for averaging and GPS, the user has to press
Upload Options.

Settings menu
From the settings menu you can select the COM-port to use with the RSC2 program.

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