Trane eView™

Energy Reporting Software

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Product Catalog

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Table of Contents

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Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Features and Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Dashboards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Financial and Forecasting Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Proactive Alarms and Exception Reporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Energy Analysis Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Trane eView Editions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

eView Express . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

eView Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

eView Expert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

System Network Diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Technical Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Introduction

The Trane eView™ energy management solution provides automated monitoring, analysis, alerts, reporting, data visualization, and facilitates the sharing of results through the use of dashboards, reports, and other tools.

As energy costs continue to rise and the impact that over-consumption has on the environment, the need to operate and maintain buildings as efficiently as possible has never been so important. eView can help by raising awareness of how much energy your building consumes and then developing strategies to control energy costs.

eView energy management software tracks energy use, costs, and CO2 emissions and processes the information for review, analysis, and compliance reporting. It provides the information you need to identify and assess opportunities. eView makes it easy to showcase the results of your energy conservation programs to internal and public audiences.

eView highlights

• Assess data from various sites or meters.

• Review energy data in a wide range of graphs, tables, reports and exports.

• Compare energy use and costs on a day-to-day, month-to-month, year-to-year basis and normalize for weather and critical business metrics.

• Schedule monthly reports to be sent to your e-mail account.

• Set up alarms to proactively notify and attach meaningful reports to each alarm.

• Use custom dashboards to track and communicate your critical energy use and cost information.

• See how energy use translates into greenhouse gas emissions.

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Features and Benefits

eView is a web-based software-as-a-service solution, available as a periodic subscription. You simply log on with a secure ID and password, and have access to all of your organization's energy information in the form of dashboards, alarms and reports. eView uses data from your organization that can be automatically or manually collected. Automated data collection enables eView to track and analyze vast amounts of data in real-time. Manual data importation provides flexibility and quick access to energy information while new metering devices are installed.

eView offers the following features that simplify the task of energy and emission management:

• Real-time dashboards

• Energy and Financial Analytic tools

• Standard and Custom Reporting

• Proactive alarm and exception reporting

Dashboards

See your real-time and historical energy performance readily displayed in charts and graphs that use color to speed comprehension. Dashboards have real-time updates of data and easy to configure interactive screens that can be viewed on an individual PC or displayed publicly using an LCD monitor or kiosk in your lobby. This type of showcasing helps you communicate progress and gets everyone in your organization, as well as customers, on board with conservation efforts.

Figure 1. Real-time dashboards

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Features and Benefits

Reports

Don't let hard work and results go unnoticed! eView has tools that allow you to track savings and performance over time, and present this information in easy-to-use reports. Analyze the energy data using a suite of standard reports, such as:

• Quarterly and year-to-year comparisons.

• CO2 emissions.

• Actual vs. budget cost or consumption.

• Building comparisons and league tables (benchmarking).

• Weekly and monthly meter load profiles.

Table 1. Standard reports available in eView

Report Type Description

Consumption

Site Metering Report Consumption summary for all meters on site.

Emissions

Site Emissions Report Calculates your CO2 emissions based on government figures.

Financial

Quarterly comparison reportCompare this quarter’s monthly data with a previous quarter. Note: comparison of consumption and cost.

Year vs. budget cost Your yearly cost graphed against your budgeted cost for a single meter.

Yearly metering report Yearly view of meter consumption and cost.

Invoice

Invoice audit reportDisplays invoices within a company, and helps with locating missing invoices. Note: This report uses the company name and a year to retrieve all invoices for

all meters within the selected company.

Measurement & Targeting

Monthly meter profile report Individual daily graphs for one month displayed in a calendar format.

Weekly meter profile report Profile for each day of the week.

Yearly comparison reportCompare this year’s monthly data with previous year. Note: Current year consumption and cost compared against each other. This

report will run for 12 months up to the selected month.

Management

Bureau reportIncludes: monthly charges report, meter monthly profile report, monthly maximum and minimum report, yearly meter report, yearly comparison report, and load factor report.

Meter configuration report Meter configuration details for all meters in selected site.

Meter data report Displays each meter in the system with their import code and the date of the most recent data for that meter.

User activity reportList of eView users. Note: Includes last login date.

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Features and Benefits

Financial and Forecasting Tools

eView provides the ability to analyze and manage not only your energy consumption, but your energy costs as well. Enter and store multiple ultility rates to improve the accuracy of cost forecasting and tenant invoicing.

Benchmarking

How does today’s energy use compare to last months—or last year? eView normalizes energy data for building size, weather (degree days), and business metrics (units or widgets produced, sales dollars, occupants). You can rank buildings against others in the portfolio to enable prioritization of energy conservation efforts.

Standard invoicing and Tenant Billing

Standard invoicing converts meter readings into invoices for building tenants or internal departments. This provides the benefit of eliminating the need for multiple meters. Provides the functionality and the ability to auto-generate invoices that can be distributed to multiple tenants or occupants for cost allocation or revenue-generating purposes.

Figure 2. Example of a Generated Consumption vs. Budget Report

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Features and Benefits

Proactive Alarms and Exception Reporting

Alarms in eView are managed by exception, allowing you to be more proactive in the alarm management process. eView employs an alarm management system that allows for ranges to be set against energy use and cost targets. If conditions exceed target ranges, alarms will alert users and even provide reports addressing the alarm condition.

eView allows you to:

• Set up different types of alarms (profile, range, average, missing data, deviation, budget deviation).

• Set up alarms according to severity—critical, non-critical, advisory.

• Set up alarms simultaneously for multiple meters.

• Determine which users will receive alarm notifications; this can also be based on the criteria set up for the alarm.

• Determine which reports can be sent with an alarm.

• Prevent nuisance alarms.

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Energy Analysis Tools

eView provides a wide range of comprehensive energy analysis tools and reports for monitoring consumption, comparing data, and targeting different areas for improvement. It displays data in charts, tables, reports and exported file formats.

eView Energy Analysis Tools include:

Energy Analysis

This tool offers a wide range of analysis techniques for all types of data. Create a chart, table, or template and view information on-screen or in an exported data format. Data can be exported as a PDF, an electronic spreadsheet, or as a CSV file.

Single Meter Analysis

Provides analysis techniques that include comparison of multiple days across a single 24-hour period. These techniques include: day comparison, surface mapping and 3D contouring.

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Energy Analysis Tools

Electricity Analysis

Provides a range of analysis techniques specific to electric meters. This includes contract (rate) analysis, maximum demand, load factor, power factor, and kVa.

Performance Analysis

Compare data consumption with production or degree-day data using a number of analysis techniques such as SEC, regression, deviation and CUSUM.

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Energy Analysis Tools

Baseload Analysis

View the base load consumption of a meter for active or inactive periods.

League Tables

Compare sites or meters based on a range of key performance indicators (KPIs).

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Energy Analysis Tools

Energy Temperature (ET) Analysis

Analyze energy usage against outdoor air temperature. The target line is derived from either the previous year’s usage, or pre-set with the graph highlighting over-usage, under-usage or normal usage compared to a percentage deviation from this target.

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Trane eView Editions

Trane eView provides insight into energy use, cost, and environmental performance at the organizational, building, and meter levels.

eView is available in the following three packages: eView Express, eView Manager, and eView Expert. All three editions are available in English, Spanish, Dutch, French, German and Norwegian. Additional languages are available upon request.

• Assess data from various sites or meters

• Compare energy use and costs on a day-to-day, month-to-month, year-to-year basis and normalize for weather and critical business metrics

• Review energy data in a wide range of graphs, tables, reports and exports

• See how energy use translates into greenhouse gas emissions

eView Express

The most cost effective choice, eView Express offers practical energy use and cost metrics, delivered to you automatically on a weekly or monthly basis. Show energy performance, tracked against organizational goals, through pre-configured dashboards and reports that can be shared throughout your organization. This practical solution allows you to focus on other business, knowing the reports you need will arrive in your "in-box" as scheduled . . . or if an alarm condition warrants your immediate attention.

Highlights

• Simple user interface.

• Dashboard (pre-configured at start-up).

• Reports (pre-selected reports are automatically sent to your e-mail account).

• Alarms (pre-configured energy use alarms will be setup to alert you to abnormal energy use patterns or spikes).

• Ad Hoc Reporting (view standard reports or run your own using a simple report generation wizard).

eView Manager

Along with the same practical features that are included in eView Express, the eView Manager edition offers a more advanced set of financial tools that supports forecasting, budgeting, and tenant invoicing. Use the standard pre-configured features, or create your own customized dashboards, reports (Figure 3) and alarm notifications.

Highlights

• Rates (create your own rates or have Trane create them for you).

• Budgets (create your own for both energy use and costs).

• Budget Analysis (use tools to analyze and compare the following types of data: actual meter data, budget data, actual data normalized, or the target budget).

• Invoices (validate your utility invoices against eView data).

• Tenant Billing (create invoices that are automatically routed by e-mail to your tenants each month).

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Trane eView Editions

eView Expert

The eView Expert edition includes all the capabilities of Express and Manager, plus an extended set of energy analysis tools. It is geared toward the energy manager who requires a more sophisticated set of tools to identify energy-saving and cost reduction opportunities across multiple facilities.

Highlights

• Energy Analysis enables data to be presented in a wide range of graphs, tables, reports and exports. Run reports on an ad hoc basis, save as a template for later, or schedule for automatic production and delivery by e-mail.

• Energy analysis tools and reports provide a range of options for monitoring consumption, comparing data, and targeting different areas for improvement. See “Energy Analysis Tools,” p. 9.

Contract (rates) Forecast

Tax rates Budget analysis

Contract groups Budgets

Contract bid management Quickset budgets

Import contracts Import budgets

Figure 3. Budget Report and Tenant Bill Figures

One of many reports that can be generated by eView Manager, this report displays electrical usage over a 14 day period. The contract was stored against the main meters, which graphically depicts energy usage and a breakdown of costs.

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System Network Diagram

eView collects data either manually or automatically. Automated data collection enables eView to track and analyze vast amounts of data in real time from almost any energy-monitoring device including building automation controllers and energy meters. Data can be imported manually from a number of data sources including spreadsheets, utility bills, and compressed files.

Technical Specifications

eView is a hosted application and only requires your personal computer's Internet browser software. eView has been designed to work with Microsoft Internet Explorer® (versions 7.0 and 8.0) for all eView editions.

eView Express edition is also compatible with Mozilla Firefox®, Apple Safari®, Google Chrome, and Opera™.

Figure 4. Trane eView product diagram

Customer buildings

eView user interfacer

eView database(hosted)

Manual meter readings

From utility bills

From spreadsheets

Building automated controller

Direct from meter

Manual Data Input Automated Data Collection

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