Energy Manager dashboards are user-friendly. The data on the dashboards is organized, making it easy to navigate the portfolio, and quickly prioritize the facilities that need attention. All data from dashboards are exportable for further reference and analysis or appended with a report. Use dashboards to comprehend energy data intuitively. The information displayed identifies inefficiencies in building operation to help reduce energy costs. OBEM has built-in reporting templates that capture essential data on a periodic basis and are easily distributable to the stakeholders.
The reports and dashboards are useful to track and report regulatory reporting and emissions. In addition, Energy Manager represents the facility meter distribution tree dynamically with associated details, namely the distribution feeder, rated kW for the feeder. The software provides an interface for an ad-hoc data trending option for up to 30 days, in daily and hourly resolutions, as selected by the user.
Energy KPIs
OBEM uses information from the building management system or from a direct connection to a meter to monitor consumption of various commodities mapped for a space. Users select the KPI cards and graphics to display on the different dashboards.
The Energy Manager dashboard includes five main KPI cards for the user to easily view their current energy consumption at the portfolio, location, and building level, including:
- Electrical Energy KPI displays electricity EUI, consumption, and per capita consumption details for the selected space.
- Thermal Energy KPI displays thermal EUI, consumption and per capita consumption details for the selected space. Thermal Energy includes the natural gas, steam, diesel, propane, fuel oil, and hot water commodities.
- Water KPI displays consumption and per capita consumption details for the selected space.
- Savings against baseline displays energy savings against baseline for electricity, thermal, and water. The weather adjusted baseline tab displays consumption with the impact of weather changes removed.
- Carbon footprint displays the carbon dioxide emissions that correspond with the level of consumption.
Map selection
Use map selection to select a location or building, and navigate to that location or building using maps at the portfolio and location level.
Hover the mouse over a location on the map to view electrical consumption and EUI details of the location or building. Click the pin icon to view the selected location or building.
Portfolio level dashboards
View the following dashboards at the portfolio level:
- Location performance widget: View consumption and EUI data. Click a link to view the location’s space system info page.
- Connected location widget: View a location. Click a location to display the KPI associated with the location, and view how each location is performing in terms of energy consumption.
Location level dashboards
View the following dashboards at the location level:
- Building EUI Comparison assists in monitoring the performance of all buildings in a single location. The widget displays electricity EUI for all buildings mapped for the selected location.
- Connected building widget provides the map view of each building. Click on a building to display the KPI associated with the building to get an overview of how each building is performing in terms of energy consumption.
- Internal benchmarking assists in understanding which building has the least EUI out of all buildings with the same property types. The building with the least EUI is clearly marked and used as a standard to measure other buildings against.
- Cumulative improvement widget denotes cumulative energy saving against baseline, and potential cost savings for commodities configured to that space.
- Cumulative energy improvement chart depicts cumulative savings and monthly savings against a baseline over a year for each commodity configured at that space.
- The Consumption widget displays the occupied and unoccupied hours consumption for present and previous timestamps for all commodities like electricity, steam, and natural gas mapped for that space.
- Energy summary graph represents the locations in descending order, according to their relative commodity usage. Hover the mouse over the location graph to view the consumption details of each commodity.
- Peak demand displays peak demand for a space over different time intervals as required by the user. Only applicable for electricity.
- Energy density vs. consumption graph displays the performance of the buildings in the selected location and based on defined property types.
Building level dashboards
View the following dashboards at the building level:
- Consumption Enterprise Platform: Displays building occupied and unoccupied hours consumption, and consumption per degree days, HDD and CDD. This dashboard helps users analyze building energy consumption based on user-defined baseline and historical average consumption. Historical average consumption comparison is based on the time of day and the day of the week to help the user analyze consumption.
- Weather Normalized Building Energy Consumption: Supports energy retrofit project energy saving tracking using weather normalized energy. OBEM calculates weather normalized energy consumption based on linear regression model on the basis of HDD and CDD. Helps compare performance year energy consumption and weather normalized energy consumption to identify the impact of weather change.
- Energy Consumption Anomaly: Displays a heat map of energy consumption to identify issues quickly.
- Energy Forecast: Displays the energy consumption forecast for a month. Uses baseline energy consumption and actual energy use to predict the total energy consumption.
- Energy Density: Displays energy density of the building using an energy density chart.
- Consumption by Load Type: Displays energy consumption of commodities by load profile using consumption by load type widget.
- Common Demand: Displays the present year's demand in comparison with the previous year's demand.
- Demand-Anomaly Heat Map: Displays a heat map of peak demand to identify issues quickly.
Floor, wing, and room level dashboards
View the following dashboards at floor, wing, and room level:
- Consumption: Displays the consumption for occupied and unoccupied hours, for present and previous timestamps.
- Demand: Displays peak, maximum, minimum, and average demand for electricity.
- Load Profile by Day Type: Displays consumption of different load types mapped for a floor, wing, or room.
Portfolio and location level analytics
View the following energy management analytics at the portfolio and location level KPI cards:
- Electrical Energy Consumption: Displays electricity EUI consumption at the portfolio or location level, and changes both with respect to the baseline and with respect to the previous year. This card also displays which locations or buildings have contributed to the increase or decrease in EUI, and the impact of faults generated on the electricity meter that contribute to an increase in EUI. Click on the location or building name to view the analytics page of a selected location or building.
- Thermal Energy Consumption: Displays thermal energy EUI consumption at the portfolio or location level, and changes both with respect to the baseline and with respect to the previous year. This card also displays which locations or buildings have contributed to the increase or decrease in EUI, and the impact of faults generated on the thermal meter that contribute to an increase in EUI. Click on the location or building name to view the analytics page of a selected location or building.
- Water Consumption: Displays water EUI consumption at the portfolio or location level, and changes with respect to baseline and the previous year. This card also displays which locations or buildings have contributed to the increase or decrease in EUI, and the impact of faults generated on the water meter that contribute to an increase in EUI. Click on the location or building name to view the analytics page of a selected location or building.
Building level analytics
View the following energy management analytics at the building level:
- Cumulative Energy Improvement: Displays cumulative savings and monthly savings against a baseline over a year for each commodity configured at the building level.
- Total Fault Count: Displays the count of total faults that occurred on the building level meters and floor level meters.
- Stale Fault Count: Displays the count of stale faults for each year that occurred at building level and floor level. The fault is considered stale if it is continuously present for 90 days or more.
- Fault Progression and Work Order Progression: View and monitor the faults that occurred against work orders raised.
- Fault Progression: Displays the count of faults at building level and lower levels.
- Work Order Progression: Displays the count of work orders raised for the faults that have occur at building level and lower levels.
- Fault List: Displays the energy fault details that occur on building level and lower levels. Displays excess consumption in terms of the financial cost and the cost of carbon emissions. Click a fault name to display fault details. Click a meter name to view the meter space analytics page. Click a space name to view the space analytics page.
- Demand Profile: Displays a daily profile of demand for a period of 30 days.
- Consumption Profile: Display a daily profile of consumption for a period of 30 days.
View energy management analytics at the floor, wing, room, and meter levels including:
- Fault List: Displays the details of faults that occurred at the floor, wing, room, or meter level, that are energy faults associated with the floor, wing, room, or meter.