Pressure chart card with background

Who it’s for

Process engineers, plant operators, and maintenance technicians ask “can I see pressure trend and operating status at a glance?” The background variant combines a trend chart with a full-card color signal for wall-mounted control room displays.

What it does

A device reporting pressure = 8 bar renders a time-series trend line, the current value, and delta figures on a card whose entire background fills with the operating level color: blue for Low (below 5 bar), green for Normal (5–10 bar), orange for Elevated (10–15 bar), and red for High (above 15 bar).

• Full-card background color makes fluid pressure operating level readable across a room without reading the number
• Time-series trend chart shows whether pressure is stable, rising, or declining
• Delta percentage and absolute delta quantify how much pressure has changed from the previous period
• Shows one sensor’s data per widget; add multiple widgets to monitor different lines or vessels side by side

How to set up

Data keys

Key	Role	Type	Description
pressure	Chart series	Timeseries	Fluid pressure in bar; change the key name to match your device’s telemetry key
Latest	Latest value	Timeseries	The headline figure above the chart. Its own color ranges are where the band colors are edited
Delta percent	Percentage change	Timeseries	Change against the previous period, as a percentage
Delta absolute	Absolute change	Timeseries	Change against the previous period, in the key’s own unit

The widget ships with a simulated function datasource key labeled Pressure, so it draws random values until you point the datasource at a device and rename the key.

To point it at your own device: open the dashboard in edit mode, open the widget’s Datasources, pick the entity or entity alias, and replace the function key with the key your device reports.

Value ranges

Range (bar)	Level	Color
0–5	Low	Blue
5–10	Normal	Green
10–15	Elevated	Orange
15+	High	Red

How to customize

• To change the operating thresholds — edit the color ranges on the Latest data key.
• To change the background colors — edit the color of each range on the Latest data key.
• To change the units — change the Units field in the widget settings to match your pressure sensor’s output.

Tips

• On a control room wall display, the colored background announces current pressure status from across the room while the trend chart shows whether the system is stable or escalating.
• Use this card when you need both a trend signal and at-a-glance status in a visually prominent format — for example, one card per pressurized segment on a piping overview screen.
• Use consistent operating colors across all fluid pressure widgets.