Overview

This article provides detailed information regarding locations, energy rates, and currencies in Verdiem.

Information

Energy rates differ greatly depending on location and time of year. Additionally, many locations have energy costs that vary throughout the day (known as time-of-use (TOU) energy rates). By defining locations and assigning devices to locations, you can track more accurately, and manage energy consumption and costs across international boundaries, rates, and currencies. Each location has an associated energy rate schedule that refers to a specific currency for that location. You can assign the correct exchange rate for each location's currency, compared to the system currency.

Important: The default system currency is U.S. Dollars (USD). If you want to change the system's currency, make sure that you choose a currency before you start summarizing data and setting up locations and energy rates. Also, make sure that that you keep the same currency in place going forward. Changing the system's currency at a later date can affect historical data, data calculations, and settings throughout the Surveyor system.

The Default Location is initially assigned for each device. After you define other locations, you can either manually assign devices to those locations or define automatic assignment rules that associate devices with specific locations. For example, you can identify device locations based on IP addresses and automatically associate the device with the specific location’s energy rates in the local currency. In addition, all of the devices within one office location are tied to specific energy policies that can be optimized based on local TOU energy rates.

Actions allowed on devices in Locations view

Users viewing devices in the Locations view can:

• View devices by location in a device table, and view a summary of device attributes.
• Manually assign locations to a device or multi-selected set of devices.
• Automatically assign locations for a device or multiple devices using Auto Location Assignment Rules.

Location Attributes

• All devices are initially assigned to the Default Location.
• Each location can have devices associated with it.
• Each device can have only one assigned location, but a device can be moved to a different location at any time.
• A Location History is tracked for each device (for reporting purposes).
• By default, each location inherits settings from its parent. If the Inherit Energy Rates from a Parent Location check box is not selected, parent settings are then copied initially.
• Each location has the following attributes (either by having them locally set or by inheriting from its parent):
  
  
  • Time Zone (e.g., Mountain Time Zone, including Daylight Saving Time).
  • Energy Cost Currency (e.g., USD).
  • If different than the system's currency, the Default Exchange Rate to System Currency (e.g., 1.25 USD = 1 Euro).
  • Default Energy Costs for Location .1405 USD.
  • Default CO2 Emissions (kg per kWh): 2.123 Kg (Kilogram) of CO2 emitted for each 1 kWh (kilowatt hours) power consumed.
    
    
• Locations can optionally have energy rates that change over time (fixed or variable).