Plugwise offers business users four software packages, each for a specific area of application.
Source
Source enables you to pick up the measurement data for your modules with your PC using the Stick. The program saves measurement data and presents this data as detailed overviews. You can also use Source to switch Circles on and off and to prepare switching diagrams. Source is included with all standard installations, including the consumer packages, such as Home Basic.
Switch Panel
A Switch Panel makes central lighting control in a business premises easy for everyone! And setting up the switch board has never been so easy.
Touchscreen Control
Touchscreen Control is ideal for large buildings in which it must be possible to switch the lighting in individual rooms on and off. An intuitive, three-dimensional visualisation with various floors offers building users the option of operating the lighting and devices in their own workspace and, for example, to switch off the lighting of an entire wing or even the entire building simultaneously.
Floorplan Control
Floor plans of your building show what rooms are being used, where electricity is being consumed and what the air humidity and temperature is. With Floorplan Control, you can enter floor plans in a user-friendly manner.
Management Portal
The Management Portal offers extensive insight into the enormous quantity of data that Plugwise systems generate across various locations.
Development
Plugwise listens to its users and works continuously on improving the software. If you have any ideas or comments on one of the applications that you use, we would greatly appreciate hearing from you. In addition to the software described here, Plugwise also develops applications for the smart grid that are geared primarily towards end users.
Overview
The following overview lists the main functions of the various packages. View the pages for the individual programs for a complete overview of functionalities.
| Source | Switch Panel | Touchscreen Control | Floorplan Control | Management Portal | |
|
Indication of energy consumption |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
|
Analysis of energy consumption |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
|
|
Indication and analysis of temperature and air humidity |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
||
| Indication and analysis of building occupancy |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
||
|
Comparison of data sets |
✓ |
||||
|
Advanced analysis reports |
✓ |
||||
|
Device switching (manual) |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
|
|
Device switching (scheduled) |
✓ |
||||
|
Suitable for novice users |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
|
|
Suitable for experienced users |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
|
Support for multiple locations |
✓* |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
|
|
Support for multiple users |
✓ |
||||
| Support for multiple Source installations |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
||
|
Web interface |
✓** |
✓ |
*) Applicable only for Source Pro licenses.
**) Source is delivered with a simple web interface that the user can install on their own server for experimental use. This requires some degree of knowledge of setting up web servers. This is not supported by Plugwise.
Touchscreen Control, Switch Panel, Floorplan Control and Management Portal use the Source API. Source is delivered as standard with a Plugwise installation.
