Glossary
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Note
The glossary is a work in progress
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Alarms
Alarms detection is designed to evaluate data points streams having (near) real-time and monotonically increasing timestamps. An alarm is triggered only when a state change occurs. Several consecutive data points that cross the threshold will only trigger the alarm once. - An alarm can be 'Acknowledged' to notify the system that a user has seen the alarm's current state.
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Alerts
Alerts can be created on any real or calculated variable in Opinum, and can be sent by email, SMS or to another system via webhooks. Alerts are gradually being replaced by alarms, which offer more functionalities
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Learn more about alerts
B
Business key
A site or source.
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Calculated variables
A calculated variable is a virtual variable calculated via a combination of a specific variable of a specific source with other data sources available in Opinum.
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Learn more about Calculated variable.
Custom filter
An Opinum proprietary syntax allowing to filter/select sites or sources.
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Learn more about the custom filter syntax
Cron
Cron is a format of schedule that is use for advanced scheduling of Alerts & Reports in Opinum. A cron expression is a string of six or seven fields that describe individual details of the schedule.
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Learn more about advanced schedule with cron
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Datapoint
A source, or time series, is a series of numerical values representing the evolution of a specific quantity over time. A datapoint is such a numerical value at a single time and is therefore represented by a pair (Time, Value).
Default variable
A default variable is a variable that is selected on a source and then pre-filled by default for dashboards, reports and alerts creation.
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Learn how to select a default variable
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Event
An event indicate something that happens in the past or in the future. An event can have an impact on the value of a source (e.g. a consumption) or on other relevant data related to a source, for example construction work on building, maintenance of heating installation, change of heating installation, new insulation, start date “challenge” lowering consumption etc.
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Learn more on events
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FTP
FTP sends for File Transfer Protocol. In Opinum FTP can be used to receive data, or to send data.
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Learn more about data upload in Opinum via FTP
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Learn more about reports export on FTP
Form
An Opinum object that defines additional properties of a site, a source or an event.
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Learn more about Forms
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Geozone
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Impersonate
The impersonation feature allows a user with the Manager or Admin role to act as another user. This feature is very useful for support.
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learn more about impersonate
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MasterData
Generic term that embraces the data and procedures offered by Opinum to bulk create/update Opinum entities.
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Learn more on Master Data
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Plivo
Plivo is a service provider of SMS. It can be used to send notifications from Opinum by SMS.
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Reports
Reports enable users to export their data from Opinum .
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Learn more about reports
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Schedule
A schedule is a timetable that can be defined for a site (e.g. the opening hours of the building). The schedule is defined site by site, or at the account level, and can then be used across Opinum.
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Learn more about site schedules
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Learn more about account schedules
Site
An Opinum entity that represents a physical or logical site (location, building, zone, ...) and taht contains sources.
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Learn more about Sites
Source
An Opinum entity that represents a physical or logical device (energy meter, air quality meter, ...) and taht contains variables.
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Learn more about Sources
Storage
This is the logical place where all files (Master Data, data points, reports, ...) are stored. There is a storage per account.
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Tag
Timezone
Opinum manages the ingestion and display of data from different timezones. The timezone is defined at site level to define the timezone of the display in Data Hub and at source level for the ingestion.
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Learn more about timezone
Trigger
A trigger allows Opinum to know how to process the files uploaded on the platform.
When you are uploading in the storage a file that contains data or information to create/update Opinum sites, sources or users, a trigger needs to be defined first, in order to process it.
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Learn more about triggers
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User
An Opinum entity that represents a physical or logical user (person, function, ...) who has secured and potentially restricted accesses to other Opinum entities (sites, sources, reports, alerts, ...).
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Learn more about Users
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Variable
A variable is a time series that contains the data. Variable can be raw or calculated.
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Learn more about variables
View
A view is a set of identical items of Opinum , saved grouped and saved as you sorted, filtered and displayed them. Views can be created for Sources and Reports. Views of sources can be then used in dashboards and Reports.
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Learn more on Sources views.
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Learn more on Reports views.
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Webhook
A webhooks is a feature that allows you to send a notification to an external system. Those notifications are made through HTTP requests.
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Learn more about webhooks