Configuring Energy Consumers¶
In this section of the configuration, you can define the assets in your plant that consume energy resources. These assets should already be defined in Insights Hub Asset Manager. Therefore, you can inherit the hierarchy structure that is defined there. Typically, all the variables required to enable the Energy Optimizer use cases should be defined on aspects within the asset. For more information, refer to Asset Manager documentation.
In the "Manage Energy Consumers" page, the list of existing Energy Consumers in the asset hierarchy is displayed on the left. You can either select an existing consumer or to add a new Energy Consumer.
Adding a new Energy Consumer¶
- In "Manage Energy Consumers", select "Add Energy Consumer".
- Navigate to an existing asset defined in Insights Hub Asset Manager and click "Create".
- Set a "Name" and an optional "Description".
- Select "Manual" option to map just a single asset.
- Click "Save".
You can save this asset as a new Energy Consumer, but you need to add at least one Energy Resource mapping and set the context parameters to enable the use cases.
Adding a new Resource mapping to an Energy Consumer¶
- In "Manage Energy Consumers", you can add a resource mapping. Select "Add" resource mapping to define at least one energy resource for this asset.
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Select the resource from the drop-down menu and the associated contract.
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It is required to define the resource first in the Energy Resources section.
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Specify whether the data for this resource is of type "Rate" or "Counter". A power or flow measurement, for example, would be of type "Rate", whereas energy or volume would be "Counter".
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In general, a "Rate" variable is a measure of change with respect to time and "Counter" accumulates with time.
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If type "Counter" is selected, then select the "SubType". This specifies whether time series data are "Absolute" values or they are the "Difference" since the last reading.
- If configuring an asset that has child assets, then you can choose whether the data is aggregated with the energy resource data defined on the child asset or whether it is to be treated as independent data. This could be important, for example, if there is an energy meter on a line that is measuring additional consumption to the other (child) assets on that line. In this case, you could choose to aggregate the data to give the total consumption for the line.
- Select the time series variable to map to the energy resource.
This is typically a variable defined on the asset, but it is possible to select any time series variable.
Additional resource mappings can be defined on the Energy Consumer. When all resource mappings are added, you can set the parameter mapping.
Adding a new Parameter mapping to an Energy Consumer¶
- In "Manage Energy Consumers", select the "Parameter Mapping" tab.
- Define a "Reference" value.
This is the number of product units that have been produced on the asset. It is needed to calculate the "per unit" values of the KPIs in analysis pages. It can be defined as either an "Absolute Counter", where the value accumulates, or a "Difference Counter", where the value represents the increase since the last time series value. Select the time series variable using thebutton.
- Map the "Product".
This is the time series for the product code that was being produced on the asset. It is needed to enable the product filter on the analysis pages. Navigate through the assets and select the aspect/variable. - Map the "Batch".
This is the variable used to aggregate the energy data into "batches". This aggregation is used in defining the energy consumption standard in the "Operator Alerts"/Notifications use case. -
Define a time series variable corresponding to the asset status. Select a status mapping from the dropdown.
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The status mapping needs to be defined already in the Status Mapping configuration.
When all variables are configured, click "Save" to see your new Energy Consumer in the asset hierarchy.
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If some parameters are unmapped then the energy resource will still be displayed in the analysis pages but with limited functionality.
Bulk Configuration¶
You can configure multiple Energy Consumers using the Bulk configuration option. Select the radio button for "Bulk" and proceed similarly to the "Manual" procedure. Instead of selecting specific variables from aspects, you select variables from aspect types. This is then used as a template to build other Energy Consumers from assets in the hierarchy with the same aspect types. For example, the Energy Resource mapping asks the user to map the variable using an aspect type: