Planning and commissioning

Project worksheets and commissioning checks for pulse, M-Bus, Modbus and analogue connections.

Most monitoring problems start before installation and show up after it as values that do not match the meter.

Start with the project worksheet, then use the commissioning guide for each interface and keep the acceptance record.

Learning path

8 guides · about 73 minutes

  1. Choosing an energy monitoring system Ten checks for commercial and industrial energy monitoring: CT error budgets, network limits, cost per point and pilot acceptance criteria. 9 min
  2. Energy monitoring project worksheet Plan a monitoring site: the decision, measurement points, measurement interval, data destination, outage behaviour and acceptance tests. 10 min
  3. Energy monitoring commissioning checklist Commission energy monitoring: point schedules, source-to-report tolerances, timestamps, daylight saving, failure tests, receiver checks and acceptance. 13 min
  4. Pulse meter commissioning and reconciliation Commission pulse metering: output circuit, pulse weight, maximum rate, known-count tests, recovery and reconciliation with the meter register. 5 min
  5. Wired M-Bus commissioning for heat meters Commission wired M-Bus: unit loads, bus voltage, capacitance, primary addresses, telegram records, failure tests and checks against the meter display. 11 min
  6. Modbus RS-485 commissioning Commission Modbus RTU over RS-485: device parameters, wiring, termination, bias, addressing, decoding, polling, data quality and acceptance checks. 6 min
  7. Commissioning 4-20 mA and 0-10 V monitoring Commission analogue signals: loop headroom, scaling, NE 43 fault currents, live-zero voltage, RTD transmitters, sampling and acceptance checks. 10 min
  8. Equipment performance monitoring boundaries Define input, useful output, operating state and time boundaries before calculating pump, compressor, boiler, chiller or heat-pump performance. 9 min

EpiSensor products

Devices for this topic

Modbus meters

All Modbus meters

LoRaWAN pulse counters

All LoRaWAN pulse counters

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