Software & Data | TOMST (2024)

Lolly software

Lolly is software specially designed for our TOMST® dataloggers. It serves as a controlling software for TMS data loggers and provides our customers the best option for gathering and evaluation of measured data (air and soil temperature and soil moisture). With Lolly software you can easily check and update the TMS and TMD firmware, setup a different Time Mode for the data collection in the field or customize chart parameters and export the measured data points for consequent use.

The software is constantly being altered and improved. Therefore, please make sure to update the program before reading out your data.

How to proceed when updating:
In the Lolly software go to the window “Options” and click the button “Check for update”. The application will update itself and will also download the new firmware for the USB adapter and datalogger. Then the new firmware will automatically transfer itself into the datalogger after being attached to the adapter.

With Lolly software you can set a different Time Modes for the data collection:

Basic Mode
Measurements are recorded every 15 minutes.

Meteo Mode
Measurements are captured every 10 minutes.

Smart Mode
Measurements are recorded at 10th, 15th, 20th, 30th, 40th, 45th, 50th and 60th minute in every hour.

Intensive Mode
Measurements are recorded every 5 minutes.

Experiment Mode
The sensor is sampling measurements every minute. Recommended for extensive and exhausting data collection.
Do not use this mode for long-term data collection! Otherwise, the memory can get filled and you might have to send it back to us to delete it.

Data

Csv output is located in the root of the lolly program in folder DATA. For example in the c:\program files\lolly\DATA There are two csv files produced during each read session: binary and data.

Binary file is memory image of the device, relevant data you can find in the data file. The name of the file contain device serial number, for example data_93130131_0.csv are from unit with number 93130131 (serial number is engraved on the top of the device)

Thermometers are placed from top in this order T3,T2,T1 (see picture in the software) Following is single sample line from file *data*.csv

0;31.10.2013 11:45;0;21.5625;22.0625;23.125;148;1;0

All measurement runs in UTC, please use time zone parameter for recalculation to the local time. There is shake sensor placed on the device,

Sample data download

TMS Calibr utility

Download: TMS Calibr

Conversion tool for raw moisture signal (~500-3600) into volumetric soil moisture (0-100% vol.).

In order to convert the field data please use „Import“ data button to upload the data produced and downloaded from the TMS3 station using LollyManager software.

Knowing your soilclass you may utilize the given choice offered in green field (C8) of the “Input“ sheet. Two additional options are possible: „Using soil properties“ uses a knowledge database of curves (except peat) and interpolates the calibration equation based on the bulk density and clay, silt and sand fractions of the sample in grey fields of line 44. However due to limited knowledge of the database in this version, user is adviced to use this option with extra caution.
User may enter option of „Enter your own calibration“. In such case orange fields on line 40 are activated.

You can download details of Calibration set for typical soils in PDF >> here <<

When one of default soil classes is chosen, user may modify the curve by fixing the specific calibration in air and water (lines 29+30).

Addition of one or two known pairs of values (raw soilmoisture count-signal and known volumetric soilmoisture related to it) can be entered. User may utilize soil core samples taken during installation and processed in the soil lab for field instant volumetric soil moisture (seek advisory of soil lab how to sample soil cores and how to process them in lab, if your are not soil hydrologist). At the moment of sampling, raw count of the TMS3 sensor must be known, i.e. recored from the station at the given time (synchronicity of TMS3 values recorded and volumetric soil moisture measured independently in the lab is required to obtain calibration curve as well).

Using one or two additional point may significantly shift or even tilt the default curve chosen, which is a operation adviced to do, if such data exist.

Output sheet produces calibration curve used and replaces raw moisture count with volumetric soilmosture. This database can be further processed or saved as *.csv file for further processing by other software, e.g. viewTMS for processing large datasets from multiple sensors.

In similar but much simpler manner calibration for TMS3 sensor working as a gauging station can be performed by recording known penetration in the water (from the tip of the sensor) and raw moisture count.