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The features on this page require a GENESIS64 Advanced license and are not available with GENESIS64 Basic SCADA . |
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The features on this page require a GENESIS64 Advanced license and are not available with GENESIS64 Basic SCADA . |
The end user can configure energy assets as well as energy meters directly in the asset tree or by using equipment classes. Equipment Classes are a special kind of asset (equipment), which have parameterized configuration properties. They can be used to rapidly configure an Energy AnalytiX application. When a user creates an AssetWorX database in the Workbench that includes an Energy AnalytiX extension, several pre-built equipment classes are added to facilitate common energy analysis scenarios.
Equipment Classes Example
We have added a number of equipment classes to help accelerating Energy AnalytiX deployment. The related equipment classes refer to simple or advanced building, with fixed or variable meter count, energy segmentation support, etc. Most of the equipment classes include hierarchical asset structures, such as Building, Floor, Meter. The newly added Basic equipment classes relate to very simple equipment classes which are targeting individual assets.
A few key points regarding equipment classes.
Energy AnalytiX has built-in support to roll up energy calculations from children to parent energy assets.
Most rollups apply to higher level assets such as Building, Floors, etc.
In equipment classes with variable meter count, the consumption calculations are x={{meter:*.*}} to facilitate automatic rollups per meter tag and meter .
We have also defined equipment classes for Energy meters with fixed or variable meter counts.
Sample Energy AnalytiX Equipment Classes in Workbench
The typical steps to utilize the equipment classes are:
Review all equipment classes.
Choose the most appropriate one.
Duplicate it by Copy and Paste.
Modify asset bindings, calculations, aliases (if desired).
Set values for some asset bindings such as Area and Occupancy.
Modify Cost Center (if desired).
Modify temperature source (if desired).
Update equipment class parameter definitions.
Instantiate under the desired asset tree branch.
In addition, the following steps should be made:
Review built-in Cost Centers or add new ones as needed
Equipment classes can be utilized for configuration of energy assets or energy meters. The user can add at the desired asset tree location an equipment based on an equipment class. The equipment class can be as simple as a single energy asset or energy meter or it can represent an hierarchical structure of various assets or meters.
Using Equipment Classes to Add Energy Assets or Meters
The user can browse for existing equipment classes and he can select the desired equipment class to instantiate.
Equipment Class Library Browser
Then, the user will be prompted to customize the equipment class parameters with values appropriate for the selected equipment class
Parameter Configuration for Equipment Classes
Once an equipment is instantiated based on an equipment class, the end user cannot modify directly the settings of the instantiated equipment. Instead, the user must first implement all changes in the equipment class and then synchronize the changes with the related (instantiated) equipment.
Instantiated Equipment Class
The user can update all instances of an equipment class via the related menu at the equipment class to update all instances or selected instances of an equipment class.
Updating Instances of an Equipment Class
Energy AnalytiX also supports data aggregates for energy calculations to be aggregated by hour, day, month year if enabled by the end user. If the data aggregates are enabled, the end user will need to re-save the related equipment class since enabling the data aggregates option does not apply automatically the changes to existing equipments or equipment classes.
In addition, since higher data aggregates such as daily, monthly, yearly depend on the timezone of the energy asset or meter, the equipment clsses have been enhanced to allow for a dedicated timezone parameter.
Equipment Class Time Zone Parameter for Energy Asset
Important note: If the user changes the base summary interval, data storage options or time aggregates options and related configuration, when existing energy calculations have been defined, the changes will be applied only to newly created energy assets and calculations. If it is desired to apply the new base summary selection to pre-existing energy assets and calculations, the user should manually edit and re-save each energy asset and meter. If equipment classes were utilized for the creation of the existing energy assets and calculations, then the user should edit and re-save all energy assets and calculations and then use the equipment class to update all instances of the specific class.
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