Overview on Energy Data Reporting

Energy Management Systems (EMSs) are tools that monitor building energy consumption enabling more informed decisions towards rational usage of energy to be made. Current EMS applications provide high report diversity, allowing their users to gain significant insight to understand how their building is performing. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is no literature available on the different reports and visualizations types available. Report usability towards the user may vary depending on the type of data displayed and how it is displayed. This article tries to define and classify existing visualizations and reports. A reference data model together with an architecture is presented, both avoid having either lack of energy reports and also rigid reporting options, by enabling the generation of new reports.