Metric Panel
The Metric panel provides consumption and register data for the selected type or asset. It has two views:
- Chart View is the default metric panel display. It provides the daily consumption chart, and the daily register value data in a chart format.
- Grid View displays data points in a table format. Data columns include fact names (for example, aggregated daily kWh from infinitival data), fact date, value, and weather data (if selected).
To change the Metric Panel view, click the chart and grid icon located in the top right corner of the panel.
On this page:
Metric Panel Data by Type
Metric panel data is dependent on the selected type.
| Point Type Code Selected | Data Available |
|---|---|
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Electric Meter or Gas Meter |
Consumption data for the selected meter. Each vertical bar represents consumption; the bar color corresponds to the data type. |
|
Premise |
Not applicable. |
|
Feeder or Line Transformer |
Feeder and Line Transformer display aggregated daily consumption in kWh. Data is only available when meter-to-line transformer and line transformer to feeder relationships are available in the connectivity model.
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Bill Cycle, Zip-Code, or Rate Commodity |
Meter data is aggregated to the selected type. |
Metric Panel Options
The Metric panel allows you to modify the conditions under which the chart is rendered. The default product configuration provides the following options depending on available data.
Time Basis
The time basis drop-down list allows you to view consumption over different data read intervals. Possible selections include Monthly, Weekly, Daily (default), Hourly, and Actual.
If a selected interval is shorter than the minimum time between reads, the chart will not display data. For longer intervals, aggregated data will display.
For example, chart behavior for a time basis selection given a meter returning daily data. The following table describes the Time Basis options.
| Selection | Consumption Chart Behavior |
|---|---|
| Daily | Chart will display data for each day, which will be the difference between that day's register read value and the register read value from the previous day. |
| Hourly | No data will be displayed since hourly data does not exist. |
| Actual | Chart will show the register read value for each day. |
| Weekly | Chart will display data for each week, which will be aggregated from the daily data during that week. |
| Monthly | Chart will display data for each month, which will be aggregated from the daily data during that month. |
Units of Measure
The units of measure drop-down allows you to select the type of consumption data to view. The units of measure options are dependent on the data source (for example, electric, gas, or water meter) and the object type.
- Water: Cubic feet (CF)
- Gas: One hundred cubic feet (CFF)
- Electricity
The following table describes the Units of Measure options based on the Time Basis option you select:
Note: Usage factor (UF), the ratio of the customer's consumption to
the average consumption of all customers in their rate class, is calculated daily and, therefore, varies on a daily basis. For example, a meter with a usage factor of 1 is
consuming exactly the same amount as the class average while a meter with a usage factor of 0.6
is consuming forty percent less than the class average. Usage factor is useful in separating the
behavior of a particular meter from the overall behavior of its rate class. Depending on
implementation, additional units of measure may be available.
Chart Type
The metric panel chart type drop-down option allows you to change how data in the consumption chart is plotted. Chart options include:
- Best: The Best chart is a bar chart of the highest priority data available.
- Single: The Single chart is a bar chart with a selected data type (Data Type 1) rather than the best available data.
- Double: The Double chart is a bar chart with two selected data types (Data Type 1 and Data Type 2).
Note: The Data Type 1 default is kWh Register Read. The Data Type 2 default is Power Out Count.
- Stacked: The Stacked chart is a bar chart that displays all of the related values stacked on top of each other. For example, a meter's load as part of a transformers total load for each day.
- All: The All chart displays all chart options layers upon each other.
Benchmark
The Benchmark drop-down list allows you to compare a meter against meters sharing an attribute or relation. For example, it might compare a meter against all meters in the same load profile class or connected to the same transformer.
- Load Profile Class: Avg Daily kWh, Avg Hourly kWh
- Transformer: Avg Daily kWh, Avg Hourly kWh
The benchmark is displayed as the 10% and 90% value range.
Weather
The Weather drop-down list allows you to view weather data over time. Available weather options are dependent on database weather data, but may include:
- Average Daily Temperature (Fahrenheit)
- Max Daily Temperature (Fahrenheit)
- Minimum Daily Temperature (Fahrenheit)
- Precipitation Rate
The selected weather parameter is plotted against the second y-axis. For example, if temperature, humidity, or dew point were available, they would be plotted against degrees, percentage, or degrees, respectively.
Statistics
The Statistics drop-down list allows you to view statistics for the displayed data. The statistic values are rendered as lines that span over the time window (as selected with the date controls.) Statistic selections include:
- Minimum: The minimum time-basis consumption value during the time window.
- Maximum: The maximum time-basis consumption value during the time window.
- Median: The middle value of the data in the selected time window. All numbers are sorted and the value in the middle is the medium. For example, if you have seven numbers {10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 23, 26}, the medium is 15. If the median has to be found from an even number of values, the median is the average of the middle 2 values.
- Average: Average is the arithmetic mean, which is the sum of all values divided by the number of values.
- 10th Percentile: The bottom 10 percent of values in a population.
- 90th Percentile: The top 90 percent of values in a population.
- One Std Deviation: +/- one standard deviation from the average, which contains 68% of all values in the population.
- Two Std Deviations: +/- two standard deviations from the average, which contains 95% of all values in the population.
Last Year
Note: Last Year is only available to clients with previous years' data.
The Last Year view allows you to compare consumption in a selected time period to consumption in the previous year. The last year data is shown as an area highlighted behind the bar chart.
To view last year data, select the Last Year checkbox from the Metric Panel filter options.
