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Introduction to Performance Insights Dashboards

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Performance Insights Dashboards are a fantastic mechanism to provide clients with early insights into their building’s performance while Clockworks is still in the middle of the onboarding process. Performance Insights dashboards are enabled as soon as point mapping is complete, and data flow is established for a building. There are a total of four Performance Dashboard templates, each with a consistent layout but with different buildings systems presented:

  • Performance Insights - Zone Equipment (Equipment Class = Zone Equipment)

  • Performance Insights - Air Handlers (Equipment Class = Air Handlers)

  • Performance Insights - Cooling Systems (Equipment Class = Chiller, Cooling System, Environmental Heat Exchange)

  • Performance Insights - Heating Systems (Equipment Class = Boiler, Heating System)

Section 1: Operating Statistics

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The first section of the dashboard summarizes the operating statistics of all active data points across the selected building(s). This section helps the user understand what is “connected” to Clockworks and explore statistics across all data points.

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The Points with Statistics table is filtered to “Last 1 Day” by default within the widget filter setting. Users may adjust this to view a longer time range if preferred. The “Last 1 Day” setting will load all data from midnight yesterday up to current time.

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The Points with Statistics table is “topped” to improve load times by reducing the amount of data returned within the widget. The table will load up to 10,000 points across any time range selected.

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Section 2: Operating Schedules

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The second section displays the operating hours of the selected equipment. All widgets within this section utilized the same calculated point: HoursOn. This calculated point is produced by the relevant analysis (e.g. AHU Energy for Air Handlers) and provides an hourly value of the runtime duration (e.g. 0.75 is equivalent to the equipment running for 45/60 minutes in the hour).

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All widgets in this section are filtered to view the last 7 days of the HoursOn point. Since this is a calculated point, it will be updated daily as the relevant analysis is run.

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All widgets in this section are “topped” to improve load times by reducing the amount of data returned within each widget. The “most/least operating hours” widgets show 25 equipment. The “Operating Status” heatmap will only load 10,000 values, which will limit the displayed equipment to ~60 equipment when viewing 7 days (10,000 / 168 readings per week = ~60).

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Section 3: Operating Trends

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The third section displays the operating trends of selected data points. This section is designed to mimic some of the capabilities in Analysis Builder - where users can select specific equipment and view the 5-minute interval data throughout the time range. Users can initiate a cross-filter from the widgets on the left to view the corresponding operating trends for the selected equipment (screenshot below shows the result of selecting “Bldg4_AHU1” from the Top 25 HOTTEST AHU Supply Temps” widget).

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All widgets within this section are filtered to “Last 1 Day” by default within the widget filter setting. Users may adjust this to view a longer time range if preferred. The “Last 1 Day” setting will load all data from midnight yesterday up to current time.

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All widgets in this section are “topped” to improve load times by reducing the amount of data returned within each widget. The “HOTTEST/COLDEST” widgets show 25 equipment. The “Operating Trends” line charts will only load 10,000 values, which will limit the displayed points to ~20-30 points depending on the time of day the user loads the dashboard (later in the day returns less points since the “Last 1 Day” filter returns all data up to current time).

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Best Practices and Use Cases

Section 1: Sensor Issues

Flat Sensors

  1. Cross filter the Points and Statistics table for a specific sensor point type in the Top 20 Point Types widget. (i.e. RoomAirTemp)

  2. Apply a filter on the Range column of the Points and Statistics table by setting the Range “is equal to 0”

  3. Identify any sensors which have a range = 0, which means the sensor value has not changed over the past day.

    1. Examples: This applies to any sensor type which normally records a fluctuating value (temperature, humidity, airflow, CO2, etc.)

      Performance Insights - Flat Sensor Errors.mp4

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  1. Cross filter the Points and Statistics table for a specific sensor point type in the Top 20 Point Types widget. (i.e. RoomAirRH)

  2. Sort the Max column of the Points and Statistics table from highest value to lowest value

  3. Identify any sensors which have maximum values beyond expenses

    1. Examples: RoomAirRH above 70%, RoomAirTemp above 85F, CO2 sensors above 2000ppm

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  1. Cross filter the Points and Statistics table for a specific set point point type in the Top 20 Point Types widget. (i.e. RoomAirHeatingSetpt)

  2. Apply a filter on the Range column of the Points and Statistics table by setting the Range “is equal to 0”

  3. Identify any set points which have a range = 0, which means the set point has not set back over the past day.

    1. Examples: This applies to space temperature set points

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