Creating a room heatmap

This tutorial shows how to create a room heatmap based on the room temperature.

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Data

First connect to your datasource and create a query that returns all rooms and related metrics. The query should return something like the following:

ID Name Temperature Alerting
1 Room 1 10 ✗
2 Room 2 20 ✗
3 Room 3 30 ✓

If you don’t have a dataset ready you can upload the following sample .csv file in a file datasource or use hopara pre-built query named tutorial_rooms under sample datasource.

Visualization

From a geo visualization, go to layers:

  1. Click on add new layer,
  2. Select polygon as type ,
  3. Name it rooms,
  4. In data, select the data source and query created on the previous section,
  5. Under appearence, in color, select Use Temperature Field and pick a color scheme,
  6. Under animation, toggle enable and in condition select use alerting field,
  7. Click on save.

Go to objects:

  1. Click on rooms in the left bar,
  2. Drag and drop the rooms to the map,
  3. You can resize and rotate each room by clicking on its borders.