Supply structure overview

By defining the supply structure, visual energy 4 enables automatic generation of balancing groups with totals and differences. On the one hand, this serves the graphical representation, on the other hand, it also ensures that the system processes measurements correctly. That’s why you should be careful when creating distribution views and the supply structure.

Even if you do not consider the graphical representation of the distributions to be that important for your project, you still need to map the basic supply structure. Otherwise, visual energy 4 cannot create the necessary evaluations and reports. To be able to evaluate the energy consumption, it is, for example, sufficient to create a distribution with a drawing object of the 'input' type, then set the input type to 'external energy supplier' and select the corresponding meter point.

The supply structure per medium is created automatically when you set up distributions. To connect the distributions to each other, the respective drawing objects are used (output->input / input->output).

The following chapter describes the individual steps to create and, if necessary, adapt the distribution structure. Make sure that the desired medium has been created for the location.

Note

To be able to add or delete distributions and distribution elements, you have to be a network data manager and have to own the rights 'write' or 'full'.

 

The next steps:

• Creating a distribution.
• Adding drawing objects
• Describing and selecting components
• Selecting data points for the display of measured values
• Creating meter points
• Assigning meter points to the structure
• Displaying data points (instantaneous values, status data)