A novel latch for pivoted optical elements of a solar concentrator and other equipment latches them in position between orientation operations. The swarm may be operable to aggregate information from a plurality of mobile devices in a specific area, wherein the information may be related by subject or category. Vibration isolation and consistency of deformation is achieved through the interaction of the individual elements of the structure. An indication of valid or invalid entries may be provided as well. Each application preferably contains an API block, which is populated by the application and passed to a logging service API when the application desires to store a diagnostic message in the logstream.