FOCUS User Manual

                                                                                                                                                                                                             FOCUS 2.0 (Codename: Airacuda) represents a significant milestone in the ongoing development of our renewable asset management platform. With this final release, we are delighted to introduce a host of new features and enhancements aimed at improving security, usability, and the overall user experience. From organization-level tools to monitoring and reporting enhancements, FOCUS 2.0 empowers users to efficiently manage their renewable portfolios in a secure and collaborative environment.
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• Now, anyone with a company email account can establish (or join) their organization in FOCUS to access public features. • Registered users can invite unlimited associates to their own Organization. • Registered users may also invite colleagues from other Organizations to FOCUS, to securely share information between Organizations. • FOCUS’s public features include: • Facility sharing between organizations • Facility, equipment, warranty, documents, and site-control tools for O&M and Asset Managers • Acuity monitoring and control single-sign-on (SSO) sharing between organizations • Customizable security roles for complete organization-specific access requirements Organization Level Tools • Administrator approval workflows for new users and Facility sharing • Customizable security roles for users and Facility level permission assignments • Track your portfolio of renewable assets using FOCUS as your secure, sharable, online database • Supported renewable Facility types now include: Solar, Storage, Wind, Hydro, Generators, and EV Chargers • Organizations now support branded logos, primary domains, and domain aliases for automatic user associations • Portfolio-wide Equipment and warranty term tracking by Mfg., Make, and Model with shared documents and images • [To Be Available End of May] Options to use existing enterprise SSO implementations (AWS Cognito & Microsoft Entra ID support) Facility Level Tools • Unlimited Facility creation and management • Unlimited Facility Sharing to 3rd party Organizations and users • Facility level document storage and management • Facility level device creation, warranty status, and network/communication configuration tracking • Comprehensive attributes for: historical timeline, interconnection, and renewable type reference information. Monitoring & Reporting (for Facilities w/ Acuity Monitoring) • Portfolio-wide alarm, key performance indicators (KPI), and attribute consolidation for single pane monitoring and reporting. • Unlimited historical KPI data retention and reporting via customizable views, spreadsheet-compatible downloads, and no-code APIs • Improved monitoring dashboard stability, performance, and store-forward data transfer enhancements • Real-time consolidated alarming view portfolio-wide w/ multi-Facility alarm acknowledgement • Facility level Event logging and Call logging utilities to aide Generator Operator recording requirements Paid Services Management • For Acuity users who subscribe to Acuity licensing, Cellular, and Operations Services; FOCUS now provides an Organization level dashboard • Visibility of services terms, renewal periods, and contractual documents • Cellular usage vs. contracted plan capacity Quality of Life/System Improvements • Site-wide performance enhancements • Simplified UI for improved navigation and display consistency • New user initial tutorial section on first login • Consolidated user settings page with avatar support and heat map schema selector … and more! | | 1.1.0 | 2023-04-05 | FOCUS 1.1.0 lays the groundwork for many future features, by replacing the previous data retention and API services that provide data from Acuity to FOCUS with a new AWS S3 backend.

PERFORMANCE - The OPERATIONS, DASHBOARD, and MONITORING pages are now supported by caching layer that efficiently retrieves and manages all performance and KPI data to the front-end UI. The result is a snappy and always up to date display of information to the users.

CELLULAR BANDWIDTH - The migration to AWS S3 changes the way data is securely transferred from Acuity to FOCUS in a manner that reduces overall cellular, while also ensuring any data transmission gaps are filled with data on comms restoration.

REPORTING - Using the PERFORMANCE MATRIX views, multi-day and multi-facility daily KPIs may be downloaded for historical reporting. This feature utilizes the historical data retention from AWS S3 to retrieve information on demand and supports single-location access to fleet-wide reporting capabilities.

API SUPPORT - The same PERFORMANCE MATRIX views now support no-code API access by exposing token-based URLs for RESTful JSON web calls to query the same KPIs described above for reporting for ingestion into any API enabled business tool.

DEVICE DETAILS - On our path to releasing our OWNERSHIP TOOLS suite later this year, a few supporting features are being moved into production as foundational components. Devices now render as collapsable trees, using Acuity’s parent-child hierarchy, and a new information button exposes equipment details to support operations and troubleshooting. | | 1.0.0 | 2022-11-18 | Official First major version release!

Under development since 2019 as both an ERP and Operations platform, FOCUS has released its first major version release 1.0!

This release includes enhancements to general stability and performance improvements to improve functionality and user experience.

DASHBOARD - The user dashboard now provides unified view of both commercial and performance related data for customers and operators, fulfilling our initial vision of a tool for tracking orders, managing assets, and to operate and maintain.

MONITORING - Portfolio and individual facility monitoring is now available through the Dashboard.

The prior OPERATIONS screen may now be launched in a single click from the Dashboard menu into a new tab/window for ROC-style multiscreen viewing.

Each facility now hosts a MONITOR option that loads a comprehensive performance monitoring view of daily generation, live inverter performance and status, and alarms.

The MONITORING now also features our signature monthly calendar performance view to help identify historical performance trends, clear sky days, and production shortfall timelines.

CONTROL - For facility control functions, access to each facility’s Acuity edge computer HMI (formerly myPV IQ) is accessible from a single click.

DEVICES - Acuity edge computer devices are now browsable from FOCUS and provide realtime alarm status from a sortable tabular display, providing rapid access to device make/model, production contribution, and serial number details in a single view.

SERVICES - Contracted services, including: software licenses, cellular service, and operations contract status may now be viewed and managed. One of the most requested features, cellular data usage vs. plan capacity, has also been added and is now available for direct comparison on the dashboard.

A dedicated view for services now provides a portfolio wide tabular view of all equipment warranty statuses, contracted services, cellular usage, and edge computer processes for rapid auditing as well. | | 0.9.4 | 2022-10-31 | Enhancements to general stability and performance improvements to improve functionality and user experience.

MONITORING - Initial adaptation of the new Monitoring page in the user dashboard released based on the existing performance badge functionality.

PERFORMANCE BADGE - Link to Monitoring added as well as addition of the “[aderis icon] Launch Acuity” link to “More” button menu.

USER DASHBOARD - Data retrieval optimizations to improve overall page loading and caching.

FACILITY - “Services” tracking is now supports for contracted cellular, operations, and software license terms.

ACCOUNT - Two factor authentication (2FA) is now available for all user accounts.

BUG FIXES - The connected facility’s [Monitoring icon] is now enabled in the table view. When clicking the [Monitoring icon] from the performance badge, the user dashboard loads as expected. When viewing the facility monitoring page and then changing the organization dropdown the page now loads as expected. |