Dymap Software

Watch how the temperature changes.

DyMap shows the changes of temperature (or other physical quantity), across an area and over time, in a colour map movie form.

What is DyMap?

Footage from infrared cameras can be show as a 'movie'. A series of cloud photos from satellites can be combined to create a 'movie' which shows cloud formation and movements. The T-TEC DyMap program can combine discrete measurements, from numerous carefully placed dataloggers, to create a picture of a dynamic situation. Any data from iButton Thermochron temperature dataloggers or any data from T-TEC data loggers, including humidity and milli Amps can be included.

DyMap was constructed in such a way that it can be used with any non-Temperature Technology data, so long as the data fits the specific text file format required by Dymap.

Flash excerpt from a Dymap movie

How does it work?

T-TEC or Thermochron data loggers are placed in a network, in rows and columns, with their positions coded in the comments field of the logger, for example, as 'R1C2'. Once the T-TEC data loggers are read by the T-TEC software, the measured results are stored as files on the computer. DyMap can combine these measured results from all the dataloggers and show it as a form of movie which shows the total situation, within a certain process, area or room through time. The movie is seen as though the viewer were over and looking down at the whole area.

Can the movie be sent to others who do not have DyMap?

The DyMap program can create reports in a 'read only' format so the results can be transmitted easily as a very professional CD presentation. Such a report from the above example can be downloaded here in a .zip format, along with the manual, help file and full explanation of the 'Read Only' program.

DyMap 2D temperature movie software example

Information from 8 datalogger, each as a graph, on the same graph

Above: A graph of 8 of the 24 loggers used to measure the room

Data from the top 8 data loggers (Rows R1 and R2) in the room, for the whole duration of the test, graphed in T-TEC software.

Set up of the T-TEC data loggers

For example, 26 T-TEC dataloggers were used to measure a room. 24 of the data loggers were placed in a 6x4 meter network on the floor (at 1 meter intervals) of the room and the last two dataloggers measured outside temperatures. S1 on the eastern side and S2 on the western side. The data from each datalogger was downloaded to the computer.\

This example can be downloaded, from the downloads section, and run on your own system.

DyMap graph at 8PM and 3AM with data from all data loggers

Above: Slides taken at 8PM and 3AM

A picture excerpt from a temperature movie made by DyMap software, with the data from all 24 loggers,
first as 8 PM that night, and then later, at 3AM.

Test area description

The test area is an upstairs room with a staircase at the upper right corner, leading to the lower floor. The left side (West) and most of the south and north sides are glass. The room is unoccupied during the day. In the evening, a heater is switched on downstairs and a small fan heater in the room itself. Both heaters are switched off later.