9.3. Analytics

An analytics page is a visualisation menu that displays selected data type in the form of a Heat map on the floor plan. Please continue below to read all the exciting information available under analytics menu,

9.3.1. Data Set

Choice of data type from presence, light level & energy consumption. The data resolution can be changed from a whole year up to a window of 5 minutes[1]. There is also an option to access live mode to visualize the current space utilisation. Moreover, if the Response nodes are properly tagged the data sets can be filtered to see analytics for different spaces. Several data sets and their significance is as below;

  • Presence – Space usage at any particular time since the Response Portal commissioning can be visualized from this data set. The presence is shown as a percentage e.g. if there are 100 luminaires and a 50% presence is shown for the 10 am window. Then it means that for whole one hour 10:00:00 am to 10:59:99 am 50 luminaires saw occupancy for this entire period. Since the luminaires are installed in a grid format this essentially translates to a space being utilized 50% during one-hour period.

  • Light Levels – Percentage levels achieved for any period of time against the full capacity of any luminaire or whole space. As an example, take the above example and if for the same hour the light levels are showing up as 75%. This would essentially be translated in that out of 100 luminaires the luminaire output can be quantified (visualised) as;

    • EITHER 75 luminaires out of 100 were at 100% light output for that period of time

    • OR All 100 luminaires were on 75% light output for this one-hour window.[2]

  • Energy Consumption – in kW.h for any window of time. The default calculation are normalized upon 40W luminaire. The luminaires can be custom assigned similar to tagging upon selection of Response nodes which would enable the lamp type to be selectable from right hand side menu within the “Nodes” page/menu. If you are unable to locate your installation specific luminaires contact ORT with luminaire specifications.

    The energy consumption is based upon a default luminaire profile and it takes on the following values

    { "0.0": 0.5, "1.0": 4.2, "5.0": 5.4, "10.0": 7.2, "15.0": 8.9, "20.0": 10.4, "30.0": 13.4, "40.0": 16.6, "50.0": 19.6, "60.0": 22.4, "70.0": 25.6, "80.0": 28.8, "90.0": 31.6, "100.0": 34.8 }

    The above structure is “Dimming Percentage“ : Energy consumed in Watts and this is a default scale for all the Response nodes/luminaires.

9.3.1.1 How is Energy Consumption Estimated

The power consumption is extracted directly if the dim level matches. If the dimming percentage is anywhere between two values then the Response Portal will calculate the gradient and calculate the interpolated power consumption value.

Please note the Response Portal only calculate the energy consumption for the default 40W luminaire.

The ability to calculate the energy consumption for different luminaire wattage values will be available in the future for the the drivers that are capable of collecting Advance Driver Metrics.

9.3.1.2 How to Use Data Sets

Presence
Light Level

The three data sets by carefully choosing the time window, tags or tenant tags would allow the users access to specific information about any space. Information perform informed audits and implement efficient space utilization plans. Users also have the ability to copy this information to their clipboard and extract to perform custom analysis, refer to Response Portal user reference guide to learn how this is achieved.

Note: You can identify the difference between a tenant tag and normal tag by spotting the symbol as shown in below image.

9.3.2. GDPR Compliance

GDPR stands for General Data Protection Regulation, it is a regulation in EU law which governs the protection, privacy, and transfer of personal data. It aims to enhance individuals' control and right over their own personal data.

In order to comply with this regulation, the Response portal provides two tiers of data for analytics. By default, the data in the Response Portal is available for view in 1 hour time intervals. If further accuracy is needed then the high resolution data setting must be explicitly enabled by a building administrator.

High resolution data means that the Response Portal will instead enable the view of data in 5 minute time intervals, instead of 1 hour. Once activated, the data sets mentioned in section 9.3.1 will use smaller increments and allow users to dive deeper into the day to day activity within the building.

To opt into high resolution data, a building administrator must go to the roles menu and check the “high resolution data” check box for any defined or newly created role.

9.3.3. Custom Analytics View

  • Click on any time bar from any of the above data sets would segregate the heat map view based upon only that time window.

  • Left Double click on any of these bars would allow user to go to more granular resolution of that time window.

  • The granularity offered goes in the sequence as below;

    • Yearly view – for whole year with data showing up in the data sets for each month

    • Monthly view – with data presented in data sets for each day of the selected month

    • Daily view – with data sets representing hourly information

    • Hourly view – with data set showing a 5-minute window-based data.

  • Right click on the bar would revert the above step & clicking on the same bar would deselect the time window.

  • Select any tag along with a time window to see a particular space utilization for a period of time.

A tenant tag and normal tag is only visible on the floor if there are Response nodes assigned to it. If you are unable to find a tag that you would like to filter information for please visit Response SN3 page and carry out tagging of Response SN3s to enable the tag based analytics data filtering.

An illustration is shown below;

Whole day view of a sample floor without any custom selection

Selection of Time window for 11 am

Selection of one meeting room through tags for 11 am

A user can instantly categorize the utilization of any space with a matter of few clicks.


[1] High resolution data has been disabled by default due to GDPR compliance. If you wish to access the 5-minute resolution check the box within roles menu for “high resolution data”

[2] NOTE: Any values shown above are an indication only and are taken to help quantify the values and interpretation of those values available in data sets. These values are normalized values over time period based upon the reporting from luminaires.

9.3.4. Response SN3 Status

In order to proceed with this “Enable All Nodes” from the floor plan and hover the mouse over the Response SN3. It will give you the status of the following parameters.

Each Response SN3 has the following information visible.

  • The one on the right side of the Response node address gives us total number of subnodes and emergency devices connected to the Response node. This Response SN3 has 2 subnodes connected (2 LED drivers) and 1 emergency devices (EM gears) connected to it.

  • Presence, light level, or energy consumption percentage depending on the data set you selected. The Response nodes with no presence, light level, or energy consumption data reported for the selected time period will show as "No data available".

  • Live light level percentage

  • Current lighting on/off status. If the dimming level is greater than zero then the Response node will indicate as on. Please note there will be a green circle around the luminaires that are turned on. This gives an easier visualization to the users to identify luminaires that are turned on

  • Current scene

  • Live presence detected

  • Group id : If this Response SN3 has assigned with a specific group id to act as a publisher and to map some Response Radio within the same group, then it will highlight the active group id here.

  • BLE scanning status : Please remember to query BLE scanning to get the updated status.

  • All relevant tags including any tenant tags

9.3.5 Colour Gradient

The purpose of displaying the colour code bar is to visually represent the range of colours in the heat map. As you navigate to the analytics page you can spot different colours appearing on the floor plan. The colour can change based upon your selection of a time window or tags as heat map changes. The colour gradient bar can help compare or identify the collected data from Response SN3s e.g. in presence data different colour can help compare low occupancy area from densely occupied area.

The colour code bar is shown on the right side of the the floor plan showing up as bar ranging ‘Low’ to ‘High’ from top to bottom.

The below image shows different colours in the floor plan starting from low to high in presence.

All available analytics data sets presence, light level & energy consumption will follow the same colour gradients.