The video discusses meters and readings in energy management, including reading routes, virtual meters, and how to link commercial meters to asset meters in your hierarchy.
This recorded session covers the topic of meters and readings in energy management, addressing reading routes, virtual meters, and how to integrate commercial meters with asset meters within a hierarchy. It explains the concept of utility meter assets and their unique features in the asset world. The discussion also highlights the importance of having commercial meters set up in advance for invoicing and touches on other essential modules like properties, locations, accounts, sub codes, and contractors. Key functionalities of energy management (EM) include capturing utility bill information, allocating costs, and distributing rates based on usage or estimates. Additionally, the concept of percent of meter is introduced, where a virtual meter is created to generate usage based on the reference meter's readings. The importance of defining locations and setting up accounting for those locations is also emphasized.