SPL Cloud

• 1: Account and interface
• 2: Organizations and roles
• 3: SPL Sense instances
• 4: Jobs with several measuring points
• 5: Measurements in the cloud
• 6: Read access

1 - Account and interface

Account

You create an account on spl.cloud with your email address, as described in the quick start. An account is personal: create one for each person and work as a team with organizations instead of sharing one account.

Profile

Settings › My Profile › Edit Profile:

• First Name, Last Name, Display Name (how others see you)
• Company Name and address
• Phone: for SMS alarms. The national format also works (079 …); the cloud converts it to the international format.

Language

Settings › Language: Browser Default, German, German (Switzerland), English or French.

Status bar

• SPL Sense instances: for example “SPL Sense 3 of 5 online”. A click shows all your instances with their state, current activity and, while measuring, the LAeq 1 s. Instances that lost their connection during a measurement are marked red. See SPL Sense instances.
• Search (magnifier), Help (question mark) and Settings (gear)

Overview

The overview shows Jobs and Measurements:

• Jobs with their measurements
• Independent Measurements: measurements that are not assigned to a job. A new measurement from SPL Sense appears here first.
• at the bottom, the list of your SPL Sense instances

Each measurement shows its state and the values of the last days, coloured according to the thresholds of the value profile. If a measurement is activated with Pro, this is shown.

Create new job creates a job.

Archive

Ten days after its end date, a job moves to the Archive; before that, the overview shows in how many days this will happen. You reach the archive via Previous jobs and measurements at the bottom of the overview. Archived jobs and measurements are kept in full.

Search

With the magnifier or Ctrl+K (Mac: ⌘+K) you search measurements, jobs, instances, organizations and settings. Archived entries are listed last and marked. You can also find instances by their operating system, for example “mac” or “linux”. The search only shows what you are allowed to open.

Live data

Pages with running measurements update themselves. If the connection drops, the cloud shows Connection to SPL Cloud lost and reconnects; Reconnect now does it immediately.

2 - Organizations and roles

Why organizations?

Everything in SPL Cloud has an owner: measurements, jobs and SPL Sense instances. The owner is either a person or an organization.

An organization is a group of people who access measurements together: a company, a club, a festival or an authority. All members see the organization’s measurements, and when someone leaves the company, the data stays with the organization.

A person can be a member of several organizations, for example as a freelance technician working for several companies. When creating a job or registering an instance, you choose who should own it.

Roles

An organization always has at least one owner.

Anyone who should only view data, for example an organizer or an authority, does not become a member but gets read access.

Creating an organization

1. Settings › Create Organization.
2. Enter Name, address and E-Mail Address. The Billing language determines the language of invoices and payment pages.
3. Save. You are now the owner of the organization.

Managing members

On the organization’s page:

1. Add Member.
2. Search for the person by email address. They must already have an SPL Cloud account.
3. Choose the Role: Owner or Member. Save.

Clicking a member opens it: change the role or Remove Member.

Logo

The organization’s logo appears in the PDF reports of its measurements. Upload logo (image file up to 5 MB), Change logo or Remove logo.

Typical setups

Individual: a technician with her own sensor and laptop, without an organization. Instance and measurements belong to her personally. She gives the organizer read access to the measurement.

Technical company: the company has an organization; all laptops and Raspberry Pis are registered as instances of the organization. All employees are members and see all measurements. At a festival, a job groups the measuring points; the authority gets read access to the whole job, the operator of a stage to their measurement.

Rented devices: if a device is rented out and should belong to the renting company for the rental period, change the owner of the instance, see SPL Sense instances.

3 - SPL Sense instances

Every installation of SPL Sense that is registered with SPL Cloud is called an instance: a laptop, a desktop PC or a Raspberry Pi. How to register an instance is described under SPL Sense › Settings.

States

Where to find instances

• Status bar: “SPL Sense 3 of 5 online”, with a list of all your instances
• Overview, at the very bottom: all instances with state, activity, owner and current level
• Settings › Personal Sense Instances and on the page of each organization

Each instance shows the icon of its operating system (Apple, Windows, Linux).

Instance page

Clicking an instance shows:

• what it is doing: during a measurement, the running measurement with the current 1-second values, with an active leveler also gain reduction and correlation; when offline, the last contact
• the Details: Instance ID, host, operating system, owner, registration date
• with Pro, remote control

Who owns the data

A new measurement uploaded by an instance belongs to the owner of the instance. Only instances of the same owner may upload into an existing measurement.

Changing the owner

You change the owner of an instance by registering it again:

1. In SPL Sense: Settings › Cloud › Unregister Instance.
2. Register instance and, when confirming in the cloud, choose the new Owner.
3. In SPL Sense, switch on the Cloud Uplink for new measurements.

The instance keeps its ID. Measurements that have already been uploaded keep their previous owner. The instance can no longer upload into them, because only instances of a measurement’s owner may upload into it. So change the owner between two assignments, not during a running measurement.

Removing an instance

On the instance page, in the menu: Unregister Instance. The instance can then no longer upload anything. The measurements in the cloud are kept. Also unregister the instance in SPL Sense so that it stops trying to connect.

4 - Jobs with several measuring points

A job groups several measurements that belong together: all stages of a festival, the measuring points of a construction site or a club with a main and a side room. Each measuring point remains a separate measurement with its own sensor, value profile and data. The job shows them together and lets you set access, Pro and alarms for all of them at once.

Jobs only exist in SPL Cloud; SPL Sense only knows measurements.

Creating a job

1. On the overview, Create new job.
2. Name, for example “Openair 2026”.
3. Location (optional).
4. From and To: the period. It determines when the job moves to the archive, namely ten days after the end date.
5. Owner: you personally or an organization. The owner cannot be changed later.
6. Save.

Assigning measurements

On the job page, in the menu Job › Manage Measurements:

• Assign Measurements: choose measurements that do not yet belong to a job.
• Remove takes a measurement out of the job. It becomes independent again.

Finish Manage Measurements ends editing.

Each measurement belongs to at most one job.

Different owners

Job and measurements can belong to different owners. Typical case: the organizer keeps the job “Openair 2026” in their organization, and a technical company measures a stage with its own laptop. The measurement then belongs to the technical company (the owner of the instance that uploads it), the job to the organizer.

Assigning

Only someone who may do both can assign a measurement: manage the job and manage the measurement. In practice, this is a person who is a member of both organizations. The measurement keeps its owner when assigned.

Who may do what

In the example, A is the technical company (owner of the measurement) and B the organizer (owner of the job).

“A” and “B” each stand for the person or all members of the organization that owns the measurement or job.

Pro with different owners

• If B activates Pro for the job, B pays for all measurements in it, including A’s, in B’s currency.
• If A has already activated Pro directly on the measurement, that stays: A continues to pay for this measurement.
• If A deactivates the direct activation while the job is Pro, the measurement stays Pro via the job.

See also Pricing and billing.

Editing and deleting

Edit changes name, location and period. Delete Job is only possible when no measurements are assigned to it anymore.

Example: festival with three measuring points

A technical company looks after a festival with a main stage, a tent and a measuring point at the nearest residential building.

1. Three laptops with SPL Sense are registered as instances of the company’s organization.
2. On each laptop, a measurement with cloud uplink is created: “Main stage”, “Tent”, “Neighbourhood”.
3. In the cloud, the job “Openair 2026” is created with the festival period, and the three measurements are assigned.
4. The authority gets read access to the whole job, the operator of the tent only to their measurement.
5. Optionally: Pro for the whole job, for example for alarms to the technicians or a shared link for the organizer.

5 - Measurements in the cloud

A measurement appears in SPL Cloud as soon as its Cloud Uplink is switched on in SPL Sense and the instance has internet. New measurements are listed first under the independent measurements on the overview.

The measurement page

Below the title, a line shows the essentials: job, owner, the instance currently measuring (with state), and whether Pro is active.

• Live: while the measurement is running, you see the current 1-second values, with an active leveler also gain reduction and correlation. If the instance stops reporting, Connection lost is shown with the last contact.
• Days, chart, deviations and events: the same as in SPL Sense, see Evaluating measurement data.
• On the side: access (who sees the measurement), Pro, pictures and the other measurements of the same job.

If something about the measurement changes in SPL Sense, for example the offset, the page updates itself.

Reports and exports

The reports carry the logo of the organization that owns the measurement.

Completing

Menu Measurement › Complete measurement. After that, the cloud no longer accepts new data, even if SPL Sense keeps measuring. Data up to the time of completion that is still on its way still arrives.

If you complete the measurement in SPL Sense, it is also completed in the cloud. It is reopened in SPL Sense or with remote control.

Deleting

You delete a completed measurement in the menu Measurement › Delete measurement. It is permanently removed from the cloud. The measurement is kept in SPL Sense.

Who sees the measurement

6 - Read access

With read access, another person sees a measurement or a whole job without being able to change anything. Typical for organizers, operators or authorities.

There are two kinds:

This page describes the free read access.

Granting read access

1. Open the measurement or the job.
2. Menu Measurement or Job › Manage Read Access.
3. Add Read Access.
4. Search for the person by email address. They must have an SPL Cloud account; if not, ask them to create one.
5. Select scope: only this measurement or the whole job. Access to the job also applies to measurements added later.
6. Save.

The Read Access Users list shows who has access, since when and who granted it. Remove revokes it.

Anyone who may manage the measurement can grant read access: the owner, or all members of the organization that owns it.

What readers see

People with read access find the measurement on their overview. They see all data, days, events and pictures and can download CSV exports, and with Pro also day reports. They cannot change anything, pass on access, or complete or delete the measurement.