Hello, I looked after the software in several reviews, and presentation videos, however there are still some questions which are unclear for me. How are different data point hierarchies constructed in Basic Reporter? Users require their data and resulting reports arranged in different ways at different times depending on their needs. Some need data categorised by end use, others by building or zone or even by system. We provide user selectable Multi-Views of data points (eg gas, water and elec meters, temp, pH, Cl, turbidity, etc) grouped into data sets. One such View might be Water and another Electricity. Some of the same data points/meters in say the Water View are then also reported in a Cooling Tower Multi-View together with condenser water temperatures and conductivity and special calculated data sets such as the Cycles Of Concentration KPI. We do this by providing a range of Explorer type Tree hierarchies. Another question would be: how does your system manage K factors that need to be applied to logged data where that K factor may well change over time but must only be applied from a given date eg emissions factors applying to kWh depending on fuel source or the litres/pulse ratio of a water meter that may be changed to another model with a different K factor ie temporal K factors?
Welcome to our forums! Both the desktop and the web version allows reports and dashboards to be organised in a tree-like hierarchy to correspond to the users' needs. AVRWEBPublisher also supports security groups and the sharing of reports among members of a group, so its possible to separate your devices into different namespaces. This tree hierarchy is common between all of the modules. Such calculations can be performed by several components of AVReporter. Business-Intelligence, a module designed to create reports involving complex mathematical and programmatical tasks and fully customisable layouts, is capable of producing reports that utilise formulae like the one you mentioned. AVR Connection Center, a plugin used to import/export and manipulate data can perform a wide range of operations including custom actions aided by Visual Basic and SQL scripting and an own task scheduler, could also be used to create virtual meters providing the derived values you need to work with.
Thank you. In most cases we are using calculated values however, does it mean we have to configure up Business Intelligence accordingly, for each of our query?
That is also a possibilty, but we also have a module called Virtual Device Manager, which allows users to create their own devices, quantities, by using calculations on the existing data inside the database. A very basic example: let's say we have a power plant, with recieved and delivered active energies, however we need to see the sum of these values, to have more specific energy-flow graphs. All you need to do, is just to create a new virtual device, where we select these 2 energies, and in a simple mathematical expression we add these values.
