Extract intelligence from your building data and discover actionable insights to improve your operational efficiency. Identify, evaluate, and rank energy-wise and comfort-balancing opportunities to support your continuous optimization strategy. RC‑Reporter® brings clarity to building performance analytics with readable, reliable, and rational reports, delivered automatically by email or integrated directly into your building control system.

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Flexible Report Generation

  • Build custom reports quickly by selecting and configuring Report Components.
  • Select data and ranges from multiple RC-Archive® databases or import data from Excel spreadsheets.
  • Report charts can be configured to be displayed in RC‑Studio® System Groups.
  • Run simple and complex queries to refine data used in report components.
  • Apply standard math functions, transforms, and operators to data.
  • Saved reports are stored securely on the RC-Reporter server.
  • Reports can be easily exported to and imported from other RC-Reporter installations.
  • Reports can be exported in PDF format.

Report Components

  • Date Range: plots data against time with full flexibility of the sample period.
  • Contribution: compares values for a configurable period, as either a pie chart or a column chart.
  • Correlation: identifies how one point influences others using a scatter or column/line diagram.
  • Profile: compares data from different time periods to identify patterns and anomalies.
  • Periodic: compares multiple periods of time to observe changes in behavior and their impact.
  • Ranking: helps you analyze the highest and lowest values within a data set, such as the top 10 hottest/coldest rooms or top 10 pieces of equipment with the greatest demand for electricity.
  • Raw Data: displays a table of raw timestamps and values for a selected log over a configurable date range.
  • Number Editor: provides an interactive control for adjusting a number value in a report (e.g. change the price of energy and see the resulting monthly cost impact).
  • Text: opens a formatted text box to be entered using a WYSIWYG text editor. Adjust color, size, alignment, and style of font, and embed links to other reports or any webpage.
  • Image: allows a .gif, .jpg, or .png image to be uploaded into the report (e.g. company logo). Images are scaled to fit, preserving aspect ratio, and centered within the component boundaries.
  • Number Editor: provides an interactive control for adjusting a number value in a report (e.g. change the price of energy and see the resulting monthly cost impact).
  • Text: opens a formatted text box to be entered using a WYSIWYG text editor. Adjust color, size, alignment, and style of font, and embed links to other reports or any webpage.
  • Image: allows a .gif, .jpg, or .png image to be uploaded into the report (e.g. company logo). Images are scaled to fit, preserving aspect ratio, and centered within the component boundaries.

Efficient User Administration

  • Add, disable, and re-enable user accounts individually.
  • Support for Microsoft Authentication/Active Directory integration.
  • Users can reset their own passwords without admin intervention.
  • Designate shared reports to be read-only or configurable by individual users.

Powerful Data Source and Point Management

  • Quickly identify, locate, and connect to any number of RC-Archive instances.
  • Automatically displays all available databases for access.
  • Flexible, point-browsing user interface includes filtering by name mnemonic, unit, database, and more.
  • Categories allow points to be organized and tagged easily and efficiently.
  • External Files feature allows third-party data to be imported using CSV formatting.

Distribution

  • Share, schedule, or programmatically trigger report distribution to any number of authorized users by broadcasting report links or PDFs to user-defined email recipient lists.

Data Sets

  • Create and save a named list of filtered data that dynamically updates and easily allows ranking and benchmarking analysis.

Identifier Selector

  • Use this drop-down tool to select a data setpoint that refreshes the non-ranking components within a report.

Sample Reports

  • Customize the sample reports that ship with RC-Reporter to quickly create new, professional-looking reports.

License and Updates Subscription

  • Licensing is limited by the number of unique active points used in reports.
  • A subscription for 12 months of updates is included with the initial license purchase.
  • Software continues to function regardless of subscription state.
  • No penalty to renew expired subscriptions.
  • Free trial version allows up to five unique points to be used for evaluation purposes.

Technical specifications

Recommended Server Requirements

  • All hardware rated for continuous server operation.
  • Intel Xeon E3 3.10 GHz or later.
  • Four cores must be available for RC-Reporter. For multiple products installed on a single computer, you need two cores per product plus at least two cores for the SQL Server database.
  • x64 system architecture.
  • 16 GB RAM.
  • Hardware RAID in a redundant performance configuration with 10K RPM SAS drives or better.
  • 10 GB or higher hard disk space free, appropriate for archiving needs.
  • Internet connection for software download and installation.
  • Gigabit network interface card (server quality).
  • Windows Server 2016 Standard–Windows Server 2022.
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2014 (x64)–Microsoft SQL Server 2022.
  • RC-Archive 3.0 or later (purchased separately).
  • Dedicated USB 2.0 Port for RC-Key licensing (soft license optional).
  • Maximum configuration: 25 simultaneous users per server.

Browser Support

  • Chrome (recommended).
  • Microsoft Edge 83 or later.

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