Loads and supplies

[Web app and mobile app]

Energy Hub uses an organization model to represent your facilities. This organization model includes locations, such as buildings or floors. The locations include loads (energy consumers) and energy supplies. For example, your lighting or heating systems are represented as loads, and your utility feeders or on-site generation are represented as supplies.

Usage types categorize energy consumption and supply based on a standardized set of end uses and supply types. For example, Lighting is a consumption usage type, Renewable power source is a supply usage type. To see energy consumption information for a location in Energy Hub, the monitoring devices that provide the energy data for the loads and supplies at this location must have usage types assigned to them.

For more information on usage types, see:

[Web app only]

The physical location of a monitoring device in your facility is often not the same as the load or supply it is monitoring. For example, a device monitoring lighting load in an area could be installed in the electrical room in the basement. To identify the location of the device and the load or supply it is monitoring, Energy Hub uses two different types of views, the Asset view and the Energy view. The Asset view shows the physical location of the monitoring device; the Energy view shows the location of the load or supply that is being monitored.

NOTE: Changes you make in the asset or energy view, like adding or moving locations or devices, or changing usage types, do not affect the logged data for a device, such as consumption data. The configuration of these views only impacts how the data is interpreted in Energy Hub.

For more information on information views, see Information views.

[Web app only]

Asset view showing the location of the panelboard and the monitoring devices:

Energy view showing the load locations and energy usage types:

The following rules apply to monitoring devices and usage types in Energy Hub:

  • A device needs to be associated with a location for Energy Hub to include its data in energy information displays.
  • A device that has no usage type assigned to it is marked as Uncategorized.
  • A usage type must be assigned to an uncategorized device when the device is associated with a location.
  • A device that is connected to Energy Hub through a Panel Server gateway can have its usage type defined in the gateway before it is connected to Energy Hub.
  • After a device that is connected through a Panel Server has been added to Energy Hub, its usage type is only managed in Energy Hub. That means the usage type cannot be changed through Panel Server and changes to the usage type in Energy Hub are not sent back to Panel Server.
  • A device can be moved from one location to another location.
  • A device that is moved to a new location can keep its assigned usage type, or the usage type can be changed.
  • A device can be removed from a location.
  • A device that has been removed from a location keeps its assigned usage type and is marked as Unassociated.
  • A removed / unassociated device can be re-associated with the same location or a different location.
  • A removed / unassociated device that is re-associated with a location can keep its assigned usage type, or the usage type can be changed.
  • The assigned usage type for a device can only be changed while the device is associated with a location, or when it is moved to a location.

You can perform the following configuration and management tasks:

  • Add loads or supplies and assign usage types
  • Change usage types
  • Remove loads and supplies

For step-by-step instructions on configuring and managing loads, supplies, and usage types, see organization model tasks.