Terms used across energy monitoring, explained plainly.
A reference for anyone new to consumption dashboards, baselines and sustainability reporting terminology.
Baseline
A calculated reference level of expected energy consumption for a premises, derived from its own historical usage pattern. Alerts are triggered relative to this baseline rather than a fixed external figure.
Interval data
Consumption readings captured at regular short intervals, such as every fifteen or thirty minutes, allowing dashboards to display near real-time usage rather than a single daily total.
Consumption comparison
A structured side-by-side view of energy use across two periods, commonly month-on-month or year-on-year, used to identify trends or anomalies.
Sustainability reporting
The practice of documenting a premises' resource use, often required by council programmes or landlords as part of a broader environmental disclosure or lease obligation.
Threshold alert
A notification generated automatically when a metric, such as electricity draw, exceeds a defined boundary above the established baseline for a set duration.
Smart meter data feed
A digital connection to a utility-installed smart meter that allows consumption data to be retrieved automatically, without manual meter reads.
Demand profile
A visual representation of how energy consumption varies across a typical day or week for a given premises, used to understand operational patterns.
Landlord disclosure
Information a commercial tenant provides to a property owner regarding utility consumption, often required under specific lease clauses or building sustainability initiatives.
Trading day adjustment
A calculation applied when comparing periods with a different number of operating days, so that comparisons reflect genuine consumption change rather than calendar variation.
Monitoring hardware
Physical sensors or clamps installed on existing electricity or gas metering infrastructure to capture consumption data for transmission to the monitoring platform.
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