User's Guide

ScanBrick® W User Manual

Doc: ARE-016631

Issue: 7.2

Date: Sept 2022

- Acquisition Mode: this is a drop-down menu to select the measure type. Available options

are: 1D (the system returns just one level measure), 2D (the system returns level measures

on a 1D grid) or 3D (the system returns level measures on a 2D grid).

- Acquisition Speed: this is a drop-down menu allowing the selection of the rate of the radar

acquisition and hence, the frequency of level meter results updates. Three speed levels are

available: LOW (acquisition rate approximately of 13 Hz), MEDIUM (acquisition rate

approximately of 103 Hz) and HIGH (acquisition rate approximately of 188 Hz).

- Min. Range / Max. Range / Min. Phi / Max. Phi / Min. Theta / Max. Theta: these are minimum

and maximum values of distance, azimuth angle and elevation angle within which the level

survey must be limited. If 1D Acquisition Mode has been selected, only the minimum and

maximum range are used by the application; if 2D acquisition is set, both range and theta

limits are used. Finally, all the limits are necessary if the 3D acquisition mode has been

selected.

By clicking the Configure button, the acquisition is configured and the Acquisition State of the

application goes from READY to CONFIGURED (see Fig.14). The acquisition configuration can be

set as many time as required, provided that the system is not already acquiring (in such a case, stop

the acquisition to update the configuration).

To configure the level meter processing, use the Processing Settings panel:

- Obstacle Cancelation: Enable or disable obstacles effect cancelation. When the obstacles

cancelation is enabled, the effect of obstacles (for example, the contribution of the edge of

the ladle) is removed by the level meter processing. TIP: uncheck this flag when performing

level metering tests in an office environment, if you want to measure the distance of a not

moving target (for example a wall).

- Acquisition Average: Set an average factor for the acquisition repetition frequency (i.e. the

radar pulse repetition frequency). Measure update frequency (i.e. the frequency for the level

measure refresh) will be given by the radar pulse repetition frequency (set by selecting an

Acquisition speed value in the Acquisition Configuration panel), divided by this value.