What is the Origin Scheduler?

Origin Scheduler is a software tool designed for configuring a measurement schedule prior to deployment, and is provided as standard with all Origin ADCPs.

Origin Scheduler allows operations to be de-risked by enabling you to plan and configure your ADCP sampling schedule prior to deployment.

This intuitive PC application has a number of features to facilitate an optimised and successful ADCP mission.

• Input details of your Origin ADCP and mission, including environmental parameters, deployment duration and mode, and battery quantity.
• Plan and configure your sampling schedule simply by inputting variables including start and end depths, number of cells, blanking distance, ping rate, and capture and sleep durations.
• Select to log high resolution data formats if you are interested in more than just PD0 data. Note this will increase disk usage.
• Set-up two schedules to be run together to allow for dual monitoring tasks to be performed with a single device.
• Check mission critical outputs of expected battery usage and expected disk usage to ensure you won’t run out of power or disk space with your intended measurement schedule.

Note: a dual battery Origin 600 device will ping continuously at 4 Hz for 2 weeks, but lifespan will be increased to months with a duty cycle mode of operation (e.g. lifespan of 3 months on schedule of 4 Hz for 1 min and sleep for 14 min). Similarly for the Origin 65, with a triple battery pack the device can ping continuously on 1 Hz for weeks but operating on a duty cycle can last for several months and even years (e.g. lifespan of 6 months on schedule of 1 Hz for 1 min and sleep for 14 mins).
If you do decide that you want to reconfigure your Origin measurement schedule whilst in operational conditions, there are two ways to achieve this: (1) Using the Origin Portal Web UI via ethernet connection, or (2) acoustically using the Origin Topside software and a topside modem when the device is already in the water.

Contact support@sonardyne.com for more information.