Check your devices and monitoring points
Devices move around a site far more often than the record of them gets updated. This check closes the gap between what's physically on site and what the software shows is there — from both ends.
Does the record match reality?
Open the Devices tab and work down the list.
Count them. Does the number of devices in Enviro match the number on site? A device collected months ago but never ended in the software is still sitting on your list.
Check each one is where it says it is. A device shown at a monitoring point should physically be at that location. This is the one that drifts — devices get picked up and moved during works, and the software doesn't follow unless someone tells it to.
Check the serial numbers. The device at a point should be the device recorded against it. After a swap or a move, it's easy for the record to lag.
Check nothing is deployed twice. Two devices against one monitoring point, or one device against two, means the data record for that location is wrong.
If the software is out of date, fix it now rather than at reporting time: Move or end a device.
Is everything deployed where it needs to be?
Your sense check will have flagged locations that no longer suit the works. This is where you act on it.
Anything sitting idle? A device on site but not deployed to a monitoring point isn't measuring anything. Put it to work, or send it back.
Anything monitoring a completed stage? Works finish and the risk moves. A device covering an area that's now quiet is better used where the next stage is.
Any gaps? New works, a new boundary, a new sensitive receiver nearby — is there a location that should be monitored and isn't?
Anything in transit or due back?
Expecting a delivery? Note what's coming and which monitoring point it's for, so it doesn't sit in a site office for a fortnight.
Anything to return? Devices no longer needed — a stage finished, a device swapped out, a project winding down — should go back rather than sit in a container. Contact your Regional Success Manager to arrange it.
Anything unaccounted for? If a device is on your list and nobody can find it on site, flag it early. Tracing a device that went missing last week is far easier than last quarter.
Are your monitoring points in good shape?
Worth a proper pass monthly, or whenever the site changes stage.
Is each new point fully configured? Media and telemetry settings are easy to skip when you're creating a point in a hurry. Check any recent additions against an established one.
Do the names still follow a convention? Naming drifts as different people add points. Consistent names make reports readable and make it obvious when something's missing.
Anything ready to retire? Points covering finished works clutter the dashboard and the reports. End them rather than leaving them dormant.
Write it down
Add a Daily note tagged to the monitoring point whenever a device arrives, moves, is swapped or goes back, with the serial number and the date. Ten seconds now saves an hour when someone asks three months later why the data at that point looks different.
What's next
Move or end a device — move a device to a new monitoring point, or end monitoring
Swap a device — when calibration is due, or a device needs replacing