Widgets

A widget is a graphic element contained in a dashboard that allows the user to interact with the system managed by EMS.

According to the type of widget, you can:

  • View real-time data, the status of alarm

  • View charts

  • Customize the distribution of widgets

  • View events.

 

The Real-time widget shows the real-time value or status of the selected variables.

Note: you can assign a title to the widget.

The History widget shows the real-time value or status of the selected variables* and their trend*.

*Notes:

  • The variables are plotted on a Create a chart that is displayed in another page

  • The same variables displayed both in the history widget and in the real-time widget may have different names.

For each variable, you can select the type of chart for average, MIN and MAX values:

Line

Bar

Spline

Area

The Event widget allows you to view the events in a table, as shown in the picture below:

From the drop-down menu, you can set the number of events to be shown (5, 10, 20 or 50).

Clicking the icon will open the Event chart.

The power distribution widget allows you to get a quick analysis and view of the power flow of your DER system.

The widget takes into consideration the iteration with the GRID and the main players in a DER system, such as the photovoltaic system, battery storage, EV chargers, other appliances and heat pump.

The power distribution widget is made up of the following elements.

Notes:

  • Each element presents the power real-time value (typically the kW sys variable).

  • By default, the power distribution widget includes only two elements: the grid and the “home”, in this case the other icons are not displayed, and the user is responsible for configuring the remaining parts.

Icon

Description

Home: presents the contribution of Grid, Solar and Battery.

EV charger

Battery storage

Grid

PV

HVAC

Other appliances

We decide to apply only one decimal place to the power value displayed in kW.

 

You can access it clicking in the dashboard right-bottom corner. It allows to:

Element

Description

Allows to manage dashboard settings:

  • Add a dashboard,

  • Move a dashboard,

  • Clone a dashboard,

  • Delete a dashboard;

change some style settings as:

  • Layout, showing one or two information columns (available also in the upper bar),

  • Background colour.

Access a Template editor;

manage the access to the dashboard via the Assign users function;

select dashboard as Homepage via homepage via Set as homepage function.

 

manage the access to the dashboard via the Assign users function

 

edit the name of the dashboard
 

Layout, showing one or two information columns

Save
 

Cancel

Note: for further information see Dashboards

Element

Description

Add a new widget

Change the reference of the widget by selecting the available device and variables

Note: for further information see Widgets

Note: for further information see Dashboards

 

Note: the following list depends on what you configure from the EMS 1.0.