- Visualization - Site Meter and Controller Architecture
- Software is able to visualize and represent the actual site meter and equipment architecture based on site definitions. Drill down from the facility view to individual buildings and asset view, and down to individual meters and equipment.
- Navigation Space Tree
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OBEM provides a flexible navigation space tree. Navigation to location, spaces, meters, and equipment is accessible by clicking on the tree. Use the space tree to search locations, buildings, floors, wings, rooms, or meters by entering keywords in the search box.
Use the space tree to create a space hierarchy reflecting actual physical locations in the portfolio, including the following:
- Portfolio
- Location, including weather information
- Building
Users can add space expansions, for example, floor, wing, and rooms, named for customer requirements.
The capability to set up the space tree to exactly mirror the physical portfolio gives individual energy analysis to be precise and tailored to the user’s needs.
- Ability to reorder spaces
- Allow users to adjust width of navigation pane to accommodate long strings
- Browser compatibility, for example, Edge and Chrome
Navigation includes a search function allowing the user to search on locations, buildings, floors, wings, rooms, or meters by entering keywords in the search box.
Users can add meters, offline meters, virtual meters, or equipment points including the following:
- Add and edit the attributes of data source points
- Historical fetch and sync
- Create meters, sub meters, offline meters, virtual meters and map the points
Online, offline, and virtual meters are represented by unique icons that help a user to distinguish different types of meters. Meters include commodities such as electricity, natural gas, water, and steam. Equipment setup includes categories such as chillers, air handling units, boilers, pumps, and fans, that are monitored for performance.
- Online: Represent physical meters that are online and send data.
- Offline: Represent older meters that do not have the capability to connect electronically to OBEM, or to a building automation system. Data from an older meter can be entered into a spreadsheet and then uploaded to OBEM.
- Virtual: Show data required that online meters do not allow. A virtual meter can be created to calculate meter data with information from online meters.
- OBEM provides a powerful inline editor with hotkeys to call detail that helps in setting up the equations faster compared to conventional on-screen keyboard.