Snapt4City platform presents information in intuitive ways and gives different stakeholders the tools for building applications on the platform.
The Snap4City platform provides a large number of features and tools, a tool for managing their access according to the roles and users. The functionalities which are dedicated to the larger mass of users are much simpler to be conquered, such as: Dashboard access and understanding, Dashboard Creation, IOT Application creation, access to documentation, manage personal profile and personal data.
The roles are organized in 4 roles of users (see also Welcome page for snap4city) :
- Manager:
is a final user, and has the capability of:
- accessing and creating Dashboards with a large set of data (high level types as: POI, sensors, KPI, micro applications, external services, etc.), attaching alerts and notifications;
- registering IOT Devices, keeping them private or making them public, delegate them;
- creating IOT Applications, save IOT applications and share them with other users;
- loading and sharing data sets, open data, and IOT Applications;
- managing personal data and annotations, saving them in safe, delegating their access to other user, groups, organizations;
- full access to documentation, help desk, FAQ, coworking, living lab;
- managing personal profile and data according to GDPR;
- accessing and exploting a limited number of resources: IOT App, Devices, Dashboards, etc.
- NOTE: accessible features are mainly visual and simple to understand and to use, and provide a limited number of parameters on each dialog and for each action. Default values of created elements can be changed editing elements.
- AreaManager: is a Developer/researcher, students, city operator, with additional capabilities with respect to the Manager to:
- accessing and exploting a large number of resources: IOT App, Devices, Dashboards, etc.
- register IOT Brokers, creating IOT Deveice Models;
- creating more complex Dashboards;
- creating advanced IOT applications, with a large set of advanced MicroServices;
- create ETL processes for massive data transformation, ingestion, publication;
- create data analytics in multiple languages (for exmaple in R Studio, also using Tensor Flow), testing them and provide them to the system;
- adding external services; sharing results, loading shapes;
- analyzing performance of the back office;
- NOTE: technical views and details are fully accessible
- ToolAdmin: is tool administration, to perform daily actions on setting tools-module parameters, set and get notifications about small problems/events:, monitor in deep the status of some specific tool or module; etc.;
- see Test Cases: https://www.snap4city.org/drupal/node/108
- RootAdmin: is the global administrator regarding the capability of: managing users aspects (changing role, auditing, assessing); systematic and sporadic system analytis and monitoring, maintenance features; recovering problems on IOT applications; assessing and auditing global daily performance; controlling platform services; configuring accesses to features for the preiovus roles, full deep configuration of the system and allocation of resources.
- see Test Cases: https://www.snap4city.org/drupal/node/108
- and in particular TC10.X amd TC11.X
For more details on the list of features accessible for each role see: TC1.2. Different Tools and Functionalities Accessible for user category
