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InfoCenter Suite can be used to effectively convert
your spreadsheet or manual-based data
management activities to a more robust and
economical solution. With your data management
activities automated and secure you will be able to
produce many of your existing spreadsheet-based
reporting functions using Report Manager.
However, if you need the reporting functions
available to you in your current spreadsheet
software, but do not want the burden of
spreadsheet-based data management, you can use
InfoCenter Suite Spreadsheet or the InfoCenter API
functions to integrate your reporting option to the
InfoCenter server data management engine.
(InfoCenter Suite Spreadsheet is sold separately).
Indoor Air Quality Analysis
InfoCenter Suite facilitates the analysis of indoor air
quality conditions over time and assists in
pinpointing problem areas. Reports can be used to
help determine the cause of IAQ problems, or
substantiate the air quality and environment
conditions within a facility.
Energy Use Analysis
The ability to have an accurate picture of utility
resource usage at a facility is an ongoing need.
Faced with growing deregulation, businesses need
tools to assist them in making better utility buying
decisions. By gaining and understanding of where,
when and how energy is used, these decisions
have strong tangible support. InfoCenter Suite can
support these efforts by:
• Obtaining load profiles for electricity, water, gas,
and steam resources for budgeting purposes.
• Tracking usage to identify conservation programs
and to reduce facility resource costs.
• Developing reports which document usage for
major consuming equipment to verify saving of
capital improvement projects.
• Using building load profile to assess the benefits
of deregulation and changing rate structures.
• Having the Emission Report tracks greenhouse
emissions based on energy consumption.
Performance Analysis
InfoCenter Suite provides access to historic HVAC
system information to provide in-depth analysis,
diagnostics and optimization of facilities operations.
Access to information for analysis allows facility
managers to take early preventive actions and
avoid potential equipment downtime, protecting
capital investments. InfoCenter Suite supports
these efforts by:
• Allowing equipment-operating
parameters to be viewed over time, or
compared relative to each other or a
baseline, to determine operating
efficiencies.
• Allowing you to detect slight operation
changes that may not result from alarm
conditions but over time will cost the facility
additional dollars.
• Using summary point functions within
InfoCenter Suite allowing for more effective
analysis without adding undue
computations burdening the control system.
InfoCenter Suite API installation drivers and ODBC
configuration software is now included with the
Infocenter Suite software. InfoCenter API
documentation has been incorporated into the
online Administrator help. These files were
designed to allow software developers to access
the InfoCenter Server Application Programming
Interface (API). With this software and
intermediate/advanced capabilities in Visual Basic
or Visual Basic for Applications, programmers or
third-party integrators can develop their own custom
InfoCenter Suite client applications or integrate to
third-party applications.
InfoCenter Suite's flexible platform allows Siemens
to efficiently develop client applications that meet
your specific business needs. Whether integration
to other desktop applications or complex statistical
processing is required, Siemens develops custom
client application to meet your specifications.
Customizable options include:
• Custom Visual basic clients
• Integration with Microsoft Office
• OPC Data Integration
• Expand import formats for third-party systems
trend data
Supporting Products
The InfoCenter Suite family includes additional
products that provide powerful data analysis,
management and reporting options for the
InfoCenter Suite platform.
• Utility Cost Manager for InfoCenter Suite —
Utility Cost Manager (UCM) is an
InfoCenter Suite client application designed
to provide information management
solutions for energy metering and
submetering applications. Utility Cost
Manager provides meter hierarchy layout
capabilities along with energy consumption,
demand, allocation and cost reports. UCM