In this article, you are going to learn how to use the dashboards to simulate a Monthly bill both for the current month and the last month with the existing widgets and possibilities they have.
The topics to be covered will be:
Current Month Bill use case
The first use case that can be reproduced with the dashboards is the current month bill data as follows:
- A first bar-graph widget is showing the daily consumption as it goes. This graph will get more and more daily bars every day, until the end of the month. You can also compare it with the last month consumption, and also change the frequency from daily to hourly if needed.
- A cost widget in the left, showing the total cost of your bill as of per now.
- And then five more cost widgets showing the disaggregation of the total cost in between the consumption cost, the contracted power cost, the excess of demand load cost, the reactive excess cost and the taxes cost.
All those widgets will be dynamic and will be updated on live (depending on how you upload your data) as they follow the period "Current Month".
This dashboard will allow you to have a closer view of the evolution of your consumption and costs during the current month and where those costs are happening.
Bear in mind that all those use cases are fully customizable by you, and you can add or change as many widgets as you wish.
As an example, you might be interested in having a KPI widget to know the consumption you are accumulating the current month to complement the other cost widgets:
Last Month Bill use case
A second use case can be reproduced which is very similar to the previous one but changing the period of all the widgets from "Current Month" to "Last Month".
This will create a dashboard which is mostly static over time, and it only changes the first day of every month.
Once you have your dashboards configured, you can share them with everybody you want! 🚀