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Monitoring Car Activity at a Store Timer
Store Monitor
PC30A gives you the ability to monitor the activity of a given Store Timer
by displaying Car Records for all vehicles as they pass through the DriveThru Lane of a store. The benefits of this feature allow you to see what
times cars are experiencing for critical times of the day. A store manager,
running PC30A can use this active information to determine which areas
of the Drive-Thru Lane need improvement in terms of speed of service.
Starting Store Monitor while connected to a Store Timer
You can initiate the Monitor only if you are already manually connected to a
store (See Manually Connecting to a Store Timer for instructions on how to
connect to a store). Once connected to a store timer, you will notice that the
Disconnect and the Monitor toolbar buttons on the main frame become active.
In order to start the Monitor on a connected
store timer, select the Monitor toolbar button:
PC30A reacts by reducing the size of the report display and creating a
monitor grid. This monitor grid is not initialized until the first monitor
event from the Timer is received as shown below.
Monitor
grid
As PC30A receives new car records from the Store Timer, it displays
them from top-to-bottom order on the monitor grid as shown below.
The information included in the monitor includes:
! Departure Date
! Departure Time
! Event Times at particular detectors
! Queue Times that follow the previous detectors
! Lane Number that car passed through
The monitor is self-limiting in terms of the number of Monitor records
that are displayed. Only the newest 50 cars are displayed on the
scrolling monitor grid.
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