Horizontal carbon monoxide (CO) card with background

Who it’s for

Environmental health officers, air quality managers, and smart city operators ask “can I see the CO severity for many stations in a compact layout where the status is immediately obvious?” The horizontal background variant combines the space efficiency of the horizontal layout with full-card color coding for maximum visual clarity in crowded dashboards.

What it does

A monitoring station reporting carbon = 3.2 mg/m³ displays the reading in a wide, low-height card whose entire background fills with the severity color: green for Good (0–5 mg/m³), light green for Moderate (5–10 mg/m³), orange for Elevated (10–25 mg/m³), dark orange for High (25–50 mg/m³), and red for Hazardous (above 50 mg/m³).

• Full-card background color in a compact horizontal format makes severity obvious without reading the number
• Live CO reading in mg/m³
• Shows one sensor’s reading per widget; stack multiple widgets to cover an entire network in a narrow column

How to set up

Data keys

Key	Role	Type	Description
carbon	Main value	Timeseries	Carbon monoxide concentration in mg/m³; change the key name to match your device’s telemetry key

The widget ships with a simulated function datasource key labeled Carbon monoxide, 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	Level	Color
0–5	Good	Green
5–10	Moderate	Light Green
10–25	Elevated	Orange
25–50	High	Dark Orange
50+	Hazardous	Red

How to customize

• To change the severity thresholds — edit Icon color ranges and Value color ranges; set the same boundaries in both so the icon and the number always agree.
• To change the band colors — edit the color of each range in Icon color ranges and Value color ranges.
• To rename the units label — change the Units field in the widget settings if your sensor reports in ppm instead of mg/m³.

Tips

• Stack horizontal CO cards with colored backgrounds in a sidebar next to a map to let operators instantly spot which station needs attention without reading individual values.
• Use consistent severity colors across all air quality widgets so a red background anywhere on the dashboard means the same thing without needing to read the label.
• For compliance reporting, pair this card with a CO chart card so inspectors see both the current reading and the daily trend without switching views.