Microsoft's Power BI application is embedded into OBEM, providing the most powerful report creation capability for the world of smart buildings. Power BI is a collection of software services that work together to turn unrelated sources of buildings information into interactive insights. Use Power BI to easily connect to your data sources and discover what is important to share and to help you visualize that data as you share it with key stakeholders. Every report that is built has view and edit modes that you can configure in OBEM roles and rights section. With Power BI, facility managers can build the following energy related reports:
- Energy summary of buildings
- Building energy contribution
- Degree days based energy consumption
- Portfolio overall demand and other important visualizations
You can also get interactive insights on your HVAC asset performance that is critical for equipment such as chillers, AHUs, VAVs, among others. Correlation of consumption with respect to running hours makes identification of wastages and other silos easy with visualizations on Power BI.
You can define visuals, filters, shapes, text boxes, drill-throughs, and visualizations. Power BI is a powerful SaaS application that you can access through OBEM without having to worry about underlying infrastructure.