====Preparing your Properties====

After you've established your basic [[Preparing your Asset Hierarchy|hierarchy]], it's a good time to prepare your list of [[Properties|properties]].

We suggest making a list of all of the properties your system currently measures, similar to the one below...

^Media^Property^Range^
|Water|Pressure|0-2000 kPa|
|Water|Temperature|0-100 Deg C|
|Oil|Pressure|0-500 BAR|
|Oil|Temperature|0-250 Deg C|
|Wind|Speed|0-200 m/s|

This gives you all of the information required to add your properties to ARDI.

It's important to remember to [[Property Groups|group your properties]] when creating them - this helps differentiate your //water// pressure from your //oil// pressure.

For example, when creating the properties in ARDI, you should end up with....

^Property Name^
|Pressure - Water|
|Pressure - Oil|
|Temperature - Water|
|Temperature - Oil|
|Speed - Wind|

The ' - ' (space, dash, space) tells ARDI that you're describing several different //types// of a measurement, so that there is no confusion between oil and water pressures when visualising your information.