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Energy Manager Starter Kit – User Guide

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Contents
1. What’s in the pack?
2. Quick start guide
3. What is energy management?
4. Installation
 Setting up the Smart Energy
Controller Lite (SECL)
 Using the plug-in Smart
Soc et
 Using Energy Manager Lite software
5. Using your Energy Manager Starter Kit to save energy
 Getting started
 Identifying power hogs
 Standby/overnight savings
 Ma ing energy saving more visible
 Monitoring in more detail
 Ta ing control of your energy consumption
6. Troubleshooting guide
. Extending your kit
 Recommended add-ons

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1. What’s in the pack?
Energy Manager Starter Kit (EN-SSK)
1 x Smart Energy Controller
Lite (SECL)
1 x plug-in Smart Soc et
1 x Energy Manager Lite
software

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2. Quick start guide
(See below for more detailed installation instructions)
1. Connect the Smart Energy
Controller Lite (SECL) to your
broadband router, Ethernet router
or Intranet connection, using the
networ cable provided.
Turn on the SECL, simply by plugging
in its power supply.
2. Plug the Smart Soc et in to an
electrical soc et and then connect
an electrical device of your choice –
e.g. photocopier, printer.
3. As soon as the Smart Soc et is in
use, the SECL will automatically
detect it and begin to pic up its
energy readings.
Install Energy Manager Lite on your
PC, and you will be able to start
monitoring the energy usage of the
device that you have connected to
the Smart Soc et.

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3. What is energy management?
The first target in an energy
management programme is to
raise awareness of energy
consumption and wor out exactly
where you might be able to ma e
improvements. By measuring and
analysing your current usage, you
can identify areas of wastage and
come up with measures to ma e
energy savings.
The Enistic Energy Manager Starter
Kit is suitable for use on all office-
based electrical equipment, such
as des -based PC systems,
photocopiers, printers, vending
machines, audio or visual
equipment, televisions, plasma
screens and servers. With this level
of flexibility, you are able to start
measuring how much individual
pieces of equipment cost to run
and begin the process of
identifying the energy hogs within
your organisation. This information
can be used to encourage
behavioural change and, over
time, to replace certain devices
with more energy-efficient
equipment.
Once targets have been set for
reducing the energy bill and
carbon emissions, it is important to
be able to trac the impact of any
behavioural or infrastructure
changes, through ongoing
monitoring.
Quic savings are usually possible
for most organisations, simply
through behavioural changes.
Extensions to your Enistic it can
easily be purchased as required, to
allow you, for example, to
automate certain equipment (such
as PCs or overhead projectors) so
that they turn off automatically
overnight and/or at wee ends.
Further savings can be made
through longer-term projects, and
ongoing monitoring will help
ensure that an organisation
continues to ma e progress
towards its targets.

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4. Installation Instructions
Features of the Smart Energy Controller Lite (SECL)
Function Description
Power Supply Connect the power supply (included in it) here.
Network connected
LED
This LED will be illuminated if the networ cable to
your Intranet / Router is connected.
Network Activity LED This LED flashes when there is networ activity.
Note that this flashes with any networ activity
and not just when the SECL communicates with the
Energy Manager.
Router / Intranet
connection
Plug your SECL into your broadband router,
Ethernet router or Intranet connection via the
supplied networ cable.
Reset Switch To perform a factory reset, press and hold this
button for 10 seconds then release the button.
Switch the SECL off and on for the reset to ta e
effect.
Online Server LED This LED flashes every time the SECL successfully
communicates with the Energy Manager Online
website. If you have disabled access to the online
system, this LED will not flash.

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Using the plug-in Smart Socket
1. The Smart Soc et will enable
you to measure the electricity used
by a particular piece of equipment
(e.g. photocopier, PC, printer).
2. Simply plug an electrical device
into the Smart Soc et and then
connect the Smart Soc et to your
electricity supply.
3. Use the red button to switch the
unit on or off. (If you choose to
upgrade your software to Energy
Manager Pro or Online, this
switching can be controlled
remotely.)
4. The plug-in Smart Soc et
communicates wirelessly with the
SECL (which is pre-configured to
automatically detect the Smart
Soc et). It should be located within
30 metres of your SECL.
5. The Enistic system uses a
meshing technology, meaning that
every module ‘tal s’ to every other
module, in order to maximise
range and reliability. If you decide
to extend your it, you should not
require an additional SECL, so long
as you ensure that each module is
within 30 metres of any
other module.
If a Smart Soc et is
more than 30 metres
away from the SECL, it will not be
able to communicate directly but
will use other modules in range to
‘pass on’ the message to ensure
100% operation.
6. Once you have monitored the
energy usage of a particular
device, using Energy Manager, you
can move the Smart Soc et to
assess a different piece of
equipment.
. If you wish to extend your it, so
that you can monitor (and/or
automatically control) more
devices, 5-way Smart Soc ets are
also available to purchase via our
website.

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Using Energy Manager Lite
1. Install Energy Manager Lite on
any Windows XP, Windows Vista
or Windows 7 PC.
2. The software has been
configured for you, so that it will
automatically communicate with
your SECL and Smart Soc et, and
display readings as soon as they
are switched on.
3. Energy Manager Lite will show
you a graph of how much energy is
being used by the device you are
monitoring via your plug-in Smart
Soc et. It will also give details of
the energy cost and CO
2
emissions.

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Further functions of Energy Manager
History screen – this is where you can
access all your past energy data. If you
upgrade to Energy Manager Pro, you will
be able to print reports and export this
historical data to Excel for further
analysis.
The Meters screen lists all the meters and
smart soc ets in your system. It is easy to
rename any of these in order to highlight
which is measuring the power used by a
particular piece of equipment or
wor station. New soc ets and meters are
automatically detected and added, so you
will not normally need to do any configuration in order to get the system
reporting.
Settings – allows you to enter details of
the cost of your electricity.
The system supports three tariff bands -
Day, Night and Wee end. It also allows
you to adjust your CO
2
production figures,
which you can reduce by moving to a
lower carbon emission tariff from your supplier.
Debug screen – shows in detail the communications between any Smart
Energy Controllers and the soc ets and meters. This is useful for
troubleshooting the system.

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5. Using your Enistic Kit to Save Energy
Getting Started
Once the equipment in the it is
connected and plugged in, you are
ready to ta e the first step in
monitoring your energy usage and
then use this nowledge to ma e
savings. The Enistic system will
give you a detailed picture -
enabling you to access real-time
data and focus right in on the
energy consumption of specific
devices.
Identifying Power Hogs
Energy Manager Lite will trac the
energy usage of your chosen
pieces of equipment. It will clearly
show you, in graph form, which
devices are using the greatest
amounts of energy and at what
times.
Standby / Overnight Savings
Energy Manager can be used to
see how much power is used when
a device is on standby, compared
to when it is turned off. This will
give your organisation a better
idea of where energy is being
wasted overnight or at other times
when the premises are not in use.
Significant savings can be achieved
by using this data to encourage
behavioural change (such as
turning off the photocopiers at
night, rather than leaving them on
standby). It might also indicate
that greater savings could be made
by automating some of the
switching off of equipment –
something that is easy and
inexpensive to achieve by
extending your it and upgrading
to Energy Manager Pro.
Making Energy Saving More
Visible
Energy Manager presents energy
data in a very accessible graph
format, so that it is easy to share
findings with colleagues and
encourage everyone to ta e more
of an interest in energy saving.

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Monitoring in More Detail
Further information is provided
below about options for extending
your it. The Enistic system ma es
it easy to monitor your total
energy usage, and to brea down
this information to analyse the
energy consumption of a
department, an individual
wor station or a circuit such as the
air-conditioning or server room.
This can be helpful when
encouraging people within an
organisation to ta e responsibility
for reducing their own personal
energy usage. Energy Manager
also wor s as a good visual aid
within the classroom when
teaching about energy costs and
how to reduce carbon emissions.
If you are interested in gaining a
more comprehensive brea down
of your energy usage, please
contact one of our energy experts
for advice on 0844 875 1600, or
see our website.
Taking Control of your Energy
Consumption
Energy Manger gives the user
control over their energy data –
both real-time and historical –
creating an easily understandable
profile of an organisation’s energy
usage.
It also allows users, very accurately
and quic ly, to gauge the success
of any energy saving changes
introduced to their organisation.

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6. Troubleshooting Guide
Symptom Possible resolution
Your SECL is not
appearing online.
1) You have plugged the SECL into your laptop by
mista e. Try removing it from your laptop and plug it
into your broadband router or Intranet.
2) You have a firewall running that is bloc ing the
SECL communications. Try adjusting your firewall to
allow outbound traffic on port 80.
3) You have not plugged in the networ cable. Try
plugging in your networ cable to the SECL at one end
and the other into your broadband router or Intranet.
4) Your broadband connection is not functioning.
From any computer on the networ , try accessing the
Internet to see whether you can access other sites.
Your SECL is not
showing up on the
Energy Manager
Lite software.
Try going to the Debug tab. You should see a list of
information scrolling up the screen.
If you do not see this type of information, it could be
because you have a firewall running that is bloc ing
your networ communication.
Try as ing your Networ Administrator to unbloc
UDP broadcasts on port 53004 and 53005.
If you are running a Windows firewall, try temporarily
disabling the firewall to see if that fixes the problem.

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Symptom Possible resolution
Your SECL looks like
it is working but no
Smart Sockets are
connecting.
Chec that the Smart Soc et is located no more than
30 metres away from the SECL. The wireless signal
should pass through walls and ceilings, but it may be
bloc ed by some materials (e.g. foil-bac ed
insulation). You may need to reposition the devices.
When Smart Soc ets are trying to connect, the LEDs
on the unit flash rapidly. Once they have connected
to your SECL, they begin to flash once every 10
seconds.
There are no lights
on your SECL.
The power supply is not plugged in or the networ
cable is not plugged in.
You can see debug
information on
Energy Manager’s
Debug tab but you
cannot get the SECL
to respond to
commands you
send it (such as
changing the
reporting interval,
etc).
This can be caused by your firewall bloc ing
communications between your computer and the
SECL.
If you are running Energy Manager Lite on a laptop
computer that is using wireless, try plugging your
laptop into a wired Ethernet connection and trying
again.

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. Extending your kit
It is easy to extend your Energy
Saving Starter Kit, with any other
product in the Enistic range (see
www.enistic.com for the full
product range).
If you want to analyse more of
your electricity usage, you can add
more single or 5-way Smart
Soc ets. A range of Channel Smart
Meter its are also available, for
installation on your distribution
board (fuse box), to measure the
energy used by particular circuits.
This enables you to measure things
such as your lighting or air-
conditioning.
Channel Smart Meters should be
fitted by a qualified electrician, but
this is quic and easy and should
not involve any disruption to your
power supply.
Any new Enistic devices will be
automatically detected by your
system, so that you can start to
monitor them immediately via
Energy Manager.
Upgrading your Reporting System
If you would li e a greater level of
detail and even more
comprehensive reporting, you may
wish to upgrade to Energy
Manager Pro or Energy Manager
Online.
These offer advanced features
such as the ability to control
devices remotely (switching them
on and off) or to automate this
process, and to create
personalised PDF reports at the
touch of a button.

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Recommended Add-Ons:
 5-way Smart Sockets – monitor
(and/or control) more devices
simultaneously, and compare
their electricity usage.
 Smart Energy Controller – same
functionality as the SECL, but
with a visual display of energy
usage, costs, etc.
 Powerdown Strips – turn your
peripherals (e.g. printer,
spea ers, monitor) off
automatically when your PC
shuts down.
 Powerdown Screensavers –
significantly reduce the amount
of energy used when the
computer is inactive, whilst
automatically saving the user’s
wor .
 Channel Meter kits – available in
1, 3, 6, and 16 channel versions,
to measure the energy usage of
particular circuits (e.g. air
conditioning, servers, lighting).