Adaptable User Interface

IDS control system possess a maximum degree of flexibility with regard to desktop organisation and visualisation features. The virtual desktop enables the user to become independent of the physical limitations of a VDU – e.g. monitors, cubes etc.- and to define any type of visualisation area. The elements of the HIGH-LEIT desktop can be freely arranged and their arrangement may even be different on each monitor.
The user can save several different virtual desktop layouts and retrieve them whenever necessary. Monitor-wide desktop layouts enable the display of images across several monitors.
The available layouts are shown in schematic form as desktop preselection icons and can be selected via mouseclick. If the available standard layouts do not fulfil the user’s requirements, they can be interactively adapted by the system administrator. The number and layout of the different desktop and the required control elements can be dynamically selected and arranged, as the situation requires.
This feature is even more interesting when used in connection with large-screen monitor modules which are increasingly used in large control rooms and which even have come to replace mosaic panels in smaller installations. The advantages are obvious: together with the creation of images for operations control in the control system, the overview for power grid operation is also generated. The virtual desktop functions enable the user to freely set up his images on the large-screen monitor and to control it via another control room workstation (“remote desktop”) like a local monitor. The “Multi-User Desktop” function can be used to access the large-screen monitor from several workstations which is particularly useful in continuously manned control rooms in multi-utility companies.
This combination of workstation and large-screen monitor allows for a flexible process visualisation and control.