Glossary
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The glossary is a work in progress
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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.
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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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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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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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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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MasterData
Generic term that embraces the data and procedures offered by Opinum to bulk create/update Opinum entities.
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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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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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Site
An Opinum entity that represents a physical or logical site (location, building, zone, ...) and that is a container of sources.
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Source
An Opinum entity that represents a physical or logical device (energy meter, air quality meter, ...) and that is a container of 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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Trigger
A trigger allows Opinum to know how to process the files uploaded on the platform.
When uploading, in the storage, a file that contains data or information to create/update Opinum sites, sources and 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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Variable
A variable is a time series that contains the data. Variable can be raw or calculated.
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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.
Virtual meter
A virtual meter enable to automate the sum or subtraction of the data from different meters. These virtual meters can be useful to measure the total consumption of a building by summing every sub-meter or to subtract a sub-meter from the general to isolate some consumption.
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Learn more on Virtual meter
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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