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Energy Monitoring

Energy monitoring refers to the process of tracking, measuring, and analyzing the energy usage of buildings, equipment, industrial processes, or entire facilities. This concept is widely applied to improve energy efficiency, reduce operational costs, ensure compliance, and achieve environmental sustainability goals.

Energy monitoring in Akila is an analytical tool for energy usage, with monitoring objects including total usage (configured through energy usage types), equipment systems, equipment, locations, zones (configured through monitoring points), and meters. We support viewing and analyzing data across various time dimensions such as 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, days, months, and years. We also support AI-based predictions for energy usage trends over the next year.

This page will have a default view when accessed for the first time, displaying energy usage data for the past 7 days for the energy category of electricity.

You can use it to:

  • View energy usage data for all meters across monitoring points, energy types, and meter dimensions, interpolated usage data, and AI forecast data.

  • Review energy usage data for year-over-year and month-over-month comparisons.

  • Help you gain a deep understanding of your site's energy usage so that you can formulate energy-saving measures.

Term Description
Interpolation Mode When enabled, the system will automatically fill in the missing usage data during the period of data loss based on the original usage. The calculation method is as follows: the displayed daily usage = the original usage on the day of data restoration/(the number of days with missing data +1). When disabled, the displayed daily usage is the calculated daily usage upon the original reading values. Interpolated values are marked with * in the list.
Interpolation Value In Akila, some smart meters may experience data loss due to various reasons (such as meter malfunction, network issues, IoT data transmission/reception failures, normal meter shutdown, etc.). When the data is restored, the reading often experiences a sudden spike compared to the previous values, resulting in a peak in the usage value (electricity, water, gas) at a certain point in time. Therefore, we need to display these values in a smooth way. These values are called interpolation value.
Forecast You can view the AI-forecast energy usage for the utility meters over the next year by clicking the "Forecast" button. You can select one or more meters to see their energy usage. After clicking the "Forecast" button, a histogram/line chart will be generated. The selected data monitoring point combinations must have at least 1 month of historical data for the AI to generate effective forecast data.
Energy Category Include electricity, water, gas and heat.
Data Grouping Organize and categorize energy usage data based on different criteria such as meters, monitoring points, or energy types, thereby clarifying the sources of the data.
Total Value Sum of all energy usage data you selected.
% Sequential Change Compare the energy usage of your selected time interval with that of the previous time interval. The time interval can be customized according to your needs, such as 1 day, 30 minutes, or 1 hour, etc.
% YoY Change Compare the energy usage of your selected time interval with the same time interval from the previous year. The time interval can be customized according to your needs, such as 1 day, 30 minutes, or 1 hour, etc.

View Energy Usage - Energy Type as Data Grouping

  1. Select time range
    Note: You can now view data across three years.
  2. Select Energy Category
  3. Select Energy Type as Data Grouping
    Note: Energy types are configured on the Energy Configuration page, with each energy type having up to three data sources, including meter data, local data, and invoice data. When the time interval is less than one day, the usage data for local data and invoice data will not be calculated.
  4. Select the nodes you want to view.
    Note: The number on the left side of each node indicates the quantity of selected nodes within its subordinate tree structure. You can also click the "+" sign to view the associated meters and the configured weights when the data source is "Meter Data".
  5. Click Apply
Query Result Interaction Description
Chart It can be displayed by totals mode or details mode. Totals mode display the total energy usage of selecting monitoring objects. Details mode display separate energy usage of selecting monitoring objects. If you click the YoY Change % and Sequential Change % legend, the line will show or hide upon clicking. Only the monitoring points with the top 10 energy usage will be displayed. If there are more than 10 nodes selected, then only top 10 nodes will display​.
List The "Totals" column in the query results of the right-side list page will only aggregate the the usage of the nodes whose ancestor nodes are not checked. You can click ">" to view the meter breakdown list. Clicking "Go to Date", you can select a specific date to view this day's usage breakdown list.
Chart and List You may opt to toggle "full screen" mode for a clearer and more direct viewing experience. You can also adjust window size across List and Chart area to view data.

View Energy Usage - Monitoring Point as Data Grouping

  1. Select time range
    Note: You can now view data across three years.
  2. Select Energy Category
  3. Select Monitoring Point as Data Grouping
  4. Select Monitoring Group
  5. Select the nodes you want to view.
    Note: The number on the left side of each node indicates the quantity of selected nodes within its subordinate tree structure. You can also click the "+" sign to view the meters associated with the monitoring point and the configured weights. Nodes without a monitoring point configured cannot be selected and will be displayed in gray. You can also slide to enable the button "Hide nodes without monitoring point configured" below the filters to hide them.
  6. Click Apply
Query Result Interaction Description
Chart It can be displayed by totals mode or details mode. Totals mode display the total energy usage of selecting monitoring objects. Details mode display separate energy usage of selecting monitoring objects. If you click the YoY Change % and Sequential Change % legend, the line will show or hide upon clicking. If there are more than 10 nodes selected, then only top 10 nodes will display​.
List The "Totals" column in the query results of the right-side list page will only aggregate the the usage of the nodes whose ancestor nodes are not checked. You can click ">" to view the meter breakdown list. Clicking "Go to Date", you can select a specific date to view this day's usage breakdown list.
Chart and List You may opt to toggle "full screen" mode for a clearer and more direct viewing experience.You can also adjust window size across List and Chart area to view data.

View Energy Usage - Meter as Data Grouping

  1. Select time range
    Note: You can now view data across one year.
  2. Select Energy Category
  3. Select Meter as Data Grouping
  4. Select the nodes you want to view.
    Note: The number on the left side of each node indicates the quantity of selected nodes within its subordinate tree structure.
  5. Click Apply
Query Result Interaction Description
Chart It can be displayed by totals mode or details mode. Totals mode display the total energy usage of selecting monitoring objects. Details mode display separate energy usage of selecting monitoring objects. If you click the YoY Change % and Sequential Change % legend, the line will show or hide upon clicking. If there are more than 10 nodes selected, then only top 10 nodes will display​.
List The "Totals" column in the query results of the right-side list page will only aggregate the the usage of the nodes whose ancestor nodes are not checked. You can click ">" to view the meter breakdown list. Clicking "Go to Date", you can select a specific date to view this day's usage breakdown list.
Chart and List You may opt to toggle "full screen" mode for a clearer and more direct viewing experience. You can also adjust window size across List and Chart area to view data.

Export - List Usage Data

  1. After selecting any of the above three methods and corresponding filters to view the usage data.
  2. Click on "Export" in the lower left corner of the List.
    Note: You will get an Excel of the whole list. If the amount of data is too large to be exported, you cannot export the file. You can reduce the number of nodes, shorten the time interval and choose not to export the breakdown meter data.

Export - Section Usage Data

  1. Select the section and Click ">" in the list.
  2. Click on "Export" in the pop-up window.
    Note: You will get an Excel of the section. If the amount of data is too large to be exported, you cannot export the file. You can reduce the number of nodes, shorten the time interval and choose not to export the breakdown meter data.

Interpolation Mode

  1. After selecting any of the above three methods to view the usage data.
  2. Select "Day" as Time Interval in the filter at the top.
  3. Click "Actions" on the top right corner.
  4. Slide to open the "Interpolation Mode" button.
    Note: In the columns of Total Usage, Usage, YoY Change, Sequential Change and Breakdown Usage, interpolation values are all indicated by an asterisk(*) once enabled.
  5. Click the "Export" button at the bottom left of the chart.
    Note: If the platform has interpolation mode enabled, it will display the interpolated usage; if disabled, it will show the original usage.

Quick Filter

  1. After selecting some filters
    Note: Time period, time interval, query object, interpolation/non-interpolation mode and chart attributes will be saved.
  2. Click "Actions" on the top right corner
  3. Click "Add Quick Filter"
  4. Input the quick filter name.
  5. Click "Save".
    Note: You can only add up to 10 quick filters.
  6. Show on the left query part.
    Note: Then you can also click "Edit" on the top right corner to remove it or rename it.