Article Index: Dashboard Tools

AiElements Dashboard Functionalities

1. Notifications & Alerts

Articles in this section:

• How to be alerted when my energy use is abnormal?

• Automatic credit top up for AiElements SMS notifications

• SMS notifications for AiElements alerts

• How to be alerted by email when meters are not sending data

• Setting up over/under alarms in your Dashboard

Video Tutorials/Webinars:

• [Video] Creating energy use alerts and notifications

2. Breakdown Analysis

Articles in this section:

• AiElements Energy Management Platform: The Breakdown Analysis

Video Tutorials/Webinars:

• How to benchmark energy against pre-determined KPIs

3. Portfolio Analyst

Articles in this section:

• [NEW!] How to scale KPI analysis and benchmarking for large building portfolios [A AiElements Guide]

Video Tutorials/Webinars:

• AiElements Technology Release: Building 'Portfolio Analyst' and 'Favourite Dashboards'

4. Maps

Articles in this section:

• [NEW!] AiElements Map: Step-by-Step guide and practical use cases

5. Favourite Dashboards

Articles in this section:

• How to set up Favourite Dashboards

Video Tutorials/Webinars:

• AiElements Technology Release: Building 'Portfolio Analyst' and 'Favourite Dashboards'

6. Sentinel Trends

Articles in this section:

• Don’t miss any opportunity to save energy with AiElements Sentinel

7. Formula Composer

Articles in this section:

• Climate change energy policy and achieving compliance through cloud-based energy management

Video Tutorials/Webinars:

• [Video] AiElements Energy Management: Formula Composer Tool

• [Video] Learn how to save time and simplify energy analysis with this analytics tool

• [Video] Creation of virtual meters (identify the kWh of other non-monitored equipment)

• [Video] Calculation of HDD/CDD against kWh consumption

• [Video] Creation of condition-based formulas to identify issues across energy and non-energy data

• [Video] Calculating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions

• [Video] Calculation of baseline consumption to track energy savings

8. Raw Data

Articles in this section:

• Analyse energy demand with AiElements Peak Demand Finder tool

• How to access cumulative readings sent from your meter

Video Tutorials/Webinars:

• [Video] Analyse peak demand with AiElements Peak Demand Finder tool

9. Activity Maps & Operations Analyser

Articles in this section:

• Discover energy saving opportunities with AiElements Activity Maps

• Operations Analyser scheduling tool

Video Tutorials/Webinars:

• [Video] Identify operational kWh and cost savings through activity tracker and heat maps

10. Measurement & Verification

Articles in this section:

• Measurement and Verification by IPMVP: Report & Plan

Video Tutorials/Webinars:

• [Video] Evaluate the efficacy of energy efficiency projects with M&V

• [Video] AiElements energy analytics for measurement and verification, IPMVP certificates for ESCOs

11. Actions Tracker

Articles in this section:

• AiElements Energy Management Platform: Actions Tracker Walkthrough

Video Tutorials/Webinars:

• AiElements Energy Management Platform: Energy Saving Actions Tracker

12. Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE)

Articles in this section:

• AiElements Energy Management Platform: Power Usage Effectiveness walkthrough

Video Tutorials/Webinars:

• Introduction to Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) in the AiElements dashboard

13. Utility Bill Parsing

Articles in this section:

• How to use the Utility Bill tool in your AiElements dashboard

14. Reports

Articles in this section:

• [NEW!] AiElements Energy Management Platform: Reports, a walkthrough the feature

• [NEW!] How to set up automated energy saving reports for your efficiency projects

• CO2 Report: Generate monthly carbon emission reports for your monitored sites in your AiElements dashboard

• Power Quality Report: Generate monthly power quality reports for sites in your AiElements dashboard

• Daily Sentinel Trend Report: Generate daily energy consumption reports for your monitored sites in the AiElements dashboard

• Consumption trend “Sentinel” report

• Introducing 'Cost Meters' for utility bills

• AiElements Utility Bill tool: Generate bespoke utility bills for your multi-tenanted buildings

  Video tutorials/webinars:

• [Video] Compare and automate the reporting of energy use and costs

15. Tariffs

Articles in this section:

• [NEW!] How to add/modify energy and CO2 tariffs to your sites

16. Documents

Articles in this section:

• [NEW!] Upload additional information (e.g. documents) to your dashboard and share them with your clients

Video Tutorials/Webinars: Improve energy project collaboration with Documents

17. Notes & Remarks

Video Tutorials/Webinars:

[Updated video coming soon]

18. Embedded Pages

Articles in this section:

• How to embed Microsoft OneDrive into AiElements

• How to embed Google Drive docs and folders

Video Tutorials/Webinars:

• [Video] Visualise useful online resources with embedded pages

19. Home Tab

Video Tutorials/Webinars:

[Updated video coming soon]

20. Live Tab

Articles in this section:

• Visualise your data with the Live Tab

Video Tutorials/Webinars:

• Live and Raw data

21. The Toolbox

Articles in this section:

• Setting up your dashboard with the Toolbox

Video Tutorials/Webinars:

• New Feature: The Toolbox

22. Workspaces (AiElementsAir)

Articles in this section:

• Integrate your Kaittera Air Quality sensors with AiElements

• Viral index for AiElementsAir

Video Tutorials/Webinars:

• Welcome to AiElementsAir

[[NEW!!]] E-Learns

• AiElementsAir Training Material

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Quarterly Feature Release Updates

• AiElements Update [May 2021]: New energy savings reports, smart tech integrations + 8 energy analytics articles

Tools covered:

1. Reports

2. Raw Data

3. Formula Meters

Other:

-Connect your Shelly 3em 3-phase meter to the AiElements energy management dashboard

-How to connect your Wattsense gateway to AiElements cloud based energy analytics software

-New endpoint development for Accuenergy meters

-UTC date & time format for data collection

• AiElements energy analytics: 2020 Q4 feature releases + 2021 developments

Tools covered:

1. Geo-location Maps;

2. Utility Bill Parsing;

3. Portfolio Analyst (re-introduction);

4. Favourite Dashboards (re-introduction);

5. Sentinel Monthly Report;

6. Operations Analyser: Savings Ranking Tool;

7. Calculating Co2 for electricity and gas;

8. Editing Formula Meters in bulk;

9. Introducing Formula Meters at sub-meter level;

10. Utility Bill Export; and

11. Remarks

• AiElements energy analytics update: New releases Q3 2020

Tools covered:

1. Sentinel for electricity, gas and water

2. Sentinel for Formula Composer (formula based) meters

3. Raw Data - New charting options i.e. better identify consumption events eg. energy consumption “peaks” or “valleys

• AiElements energy analytics software update: Q1 2020

Tools covered:

1. Documents

2. Embedded Pages - HTML feature

3. Introducing sub-meters for water & gas

4. Breakdown

5. Sentinel Trends

• AiElements 2019 review: Top energy management software releases

Tools covered:

1. Peak Demand Finder

2. Raw data: Visualizing Cumulative data (per phase)

3. Measurement & Verification

4. Flexible processing of CSV data files

5. Utility Bill Report - Introducing cost meters

6. Notes

7. Embedded pages

8. AiElements RESTful API to build 3rd party analytics

9. Data gaps + Sentinel Webhooks

• [Webinar] AiElements energy analytics: 2019 Success Stories + 2020 Technology Outlook

• AiElements energy management software update: Q1 2019

Tools covered:

1. Alerts & Notifications: Offline notifications; set custom alert emails to be sent to individuals from other than current users for selected sites

2. Breakdown Tab: Virtual Meters

3. How to delete an organization(s) in your menu tree

4. AiElements white-labelling & branding of Admin tab in dashboard

5. Keeping Cost/Value selection across analysis tools

6. Reports: Send reports for selected sites

• New at AiElements: Q4 2018

Tools covered:

1. Formula Composer

2. CSV file upload via FTP

3. Data Uploader

4. Utility Bill Reports

5. Breakdown: Multi-year view

6. Embedded Pages

7. Operations Analyser

Webinars

• Unlocking the potential of data analytics for building energy management and certification

• Digital Energy Trends 2020-2030: Key Opportunities for ESCOs, Consultants & Utilities

• Chasing net-zero buildings/facilities: ‘Old hat’ or chasing the near impossible?

• How a global luxury retailer became the first in the world to achieve Gold under LEEDv.4.1 O+M

• [AiElements Webinar] Evolution of energy efficiency in 2020-2021: Achievements and Trends

• Doubling your recurring revenue through energy analytics

• Sales-from-home: TOP 14 tips for effective communication with potential customers

• Data Quality: How to identify and solve issues with your data

• Different ways to connect devices and data sources to AiElements

• AiElements M&V tool streamlines ECM evaluation and reporting for New Zealand based BMS specialist