System information

Welcome
Congratulations on the purchase of your Aztech In-Home Display (IHD), also known as an Energy Information
Display (EID). This Configuration Manual describes how to set your user preferences, configure and trouble
shoot your IHD.
Your Aztech In-Home Display provides you with intuitive, actionable and timely information about your whole
home electricity usage. Your display communicates wirelessly to the Smart electricity meter installed on your
home to present electricity used, its estimated cost, and historical usage information. Your display is designed to
provide your entire family with easy to understand information about how much electricity you are consuming
and how much it costs.
Aztech understands that people learn in different ways, and we make a concerted effort to use a wide range of
presentation methods including lights, icons, text and graphics. To help you monitor your progress toward
meeting your energy efficiency and budgetary goals, the Aztech In-Home Display provides graphics that clearly
communicate not only how much electricity you consumed but when it was consumed and how much it costs.
Graphical feedback provides evidence of success and identifies times of high cost or use to promote further
targeted conservation action.
The In-Home Display is crowned by a patented light arc that alerts you to current electricity price and usage
levels, and enables you to make immediate changes to reduce energy consumption. The light arc’s easy to
understand color code engages even the youngest preschooler in your household in conservation. The speed at
which the colored light moves along the arc correlates to your energy consumption (turn off an appliance and
watch it slow down); and the color of the light reflects your electricity rates. Electricity rates are at their lowest
when the light is green; they have risen when the light is yellow and are at their highest when the light is red.
While a 120V AC power adapter is provided to power your In-Home Display under normal operation, your
display also supports battery powered operation so that you can take the display through your home and
explore how the use of different appliances impacts your energy use. For more information about this feature,
see the Quick Read section of the User Manual. Before operating on batteries, the IHD must be plugged into AC
power for at least 4 hours to charge the batteries.
This manual provides instructions for setting user preferences, configuring the system setup, and
troubleshooting the In-Home Display. A separate User Manual for this product can be found on
www.myaztech.ca that describes the operation and features of the In-Home Display.
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