What Is TimeView?

What is it?

TimeView is a chart-based energy analysis tool. You pick one or more devices from your site, choose a measurement - power, energy, cost, and more - set a time range, and see the data as a line or bar chart. The chart updates instantly as you change any of those choices.

What can you do with it?

• Chart power, energy, current, cost, carbon, and more for any device or group.
• Drill from your whole site down to a single circuit or phase.
• Overlay working-hours schedules and outside temperature to understand what you see.
• Compare any two time periods side by side.
• Zoom into a spike and drill down to the hour.
• Save a view as a preset, share a link, and export data to CSV.

Note: TimeView is available on both Visualize and Optimize. Several capabilities require Optimize. These are flagged inline throughout this article.

Where to Find It

Open a site in PowerRadar, then select TimeView from the left navigation. TimeView always shows data for the site you are currently viewing.

A Tour of the Screen

The TimeView screen has three main areas.

The device tree (left panel) lists every device and circuit at your site. This is where you select what to chart.

The chart (center) displays your data. Line charts show real-time measurements like power; bar charts show totals like energy or cost.

The legend (right panel) lists each series you've added. It lets you show, hide, or remove individual series.

The controls along the top let you set the time range and access export, compare, and other tools.

Getting Started: Step by Step

1. Pick Devices in the Tree

The left panel lists your site's Panoramic Sensors - your electricity devices and circuits. Use the Search box to find a device by name; type at least two characters to filter.

On Optimize, a second Meters section appears below, covering external meters such as gas, water, or air. Each section has its own Search box.

Use the Group by dropdown to reorganize the Panoramic Sensors tree by Device type, Zone > Panel, Groups, or Category. This lets you browse by how your site is wired rather than by device name.

Tick the checkbox next to any item to add it to the chart. Tick a parent node - a category, zone, or group - to add everything under it at once. Expand a device to select an individual circuit or phase. You can chart up to 100 items at once.

Note: The Other Sites tab (Optimize) lets you add devices from other sites you manage to the same chart.

2. Choose What to Measure

At the top of the panel, you'll see a button showing the active measurement - for example, Power or Energy. Click it to open a two-column dropdown: the left column covers Panoramic Sensors metrics; the right column covers Meters metrics. You can select one from each column independently.

Panoramic Sensors metrics:

Meters metrics (Optimize):

Note: Power Factor, Apparent Power, and Reactive Power (PAN-42 only) are not in the main metric selector. You add them per-device from the legend. See Chart series add-ons & PAN-42 metrics for details.

3. Read the Chart and Legend

Line measurements (like Power and Current) appear as lines. Total measurements (like Energy and Cost) appear as bars. Hover any point to see a tooltip with the exact value for every visible series at that moment.

The legend on the right lists each series. Click the eye icon to hide or show a series without removing it from your selection. Click × to remove a series entirely. Hover a legend row to highlight that series on the chart and dim the others.

4. Set the Time Range

Use the period buttons at the top to set the view: 6h, 24h, 7d, 30d, 12m, or a calendar period (Day, Week, Month, Quarter, Year). The arrow buttons step the window forward or back by one period at a time. Click the calendar icon to pick a custom start date and time.

5. Customize the Chart

Open the Customize chart panel (toolbar icon, top right of the chart area) to control how the chart looks and what context it shows.

Under Data Layers (Optimize):

• Schedule - shade the chart to show working vs. off hours from a schedule you select. You can choose any schedule configured at the site.
• Outside temperature - overlay the local temperature line to see how weather correlates with energy use. An optional toggle shows the daily min/max range.

Under Chart type:

• Normal - the default. Each series on its own scale.
• Stacked and Stacked % 

Under Data display:

• Normalize data - scales all line series to a 0-100% range so you can compare devices with very different magnitudes. (Optimize)

6. Compare, Zoom, and Drill Down

Compare (Optimize) lets you overlay a second time period on the chart - for example, this week versus last week - so you can see how consumption has changed. You can show the two periods as an overlay on shared axes, or split them into two separate panels.

Below the main chart, a smaller overview chart shows your full selected range. Drag its handles to zoom into a portion of the range - the main chart updates instantly. You can also click anywhere on the overview chart to drill down into a finer time granularity: year → month → day → 6 hours. A breadcrumb at the top of the chart lets you step back out. Use Hide Overview (bottom right of the chart) to collapse the overview chart when you don't need it.

7. Save, Share, and Export

TimeView supports multiple tabs (Optimize): each tab - named View 1, View 2, and so on - has its own device selection, time range, and settings. Click + next to the tab bar to open a new view. Right-click a tab title to duplicate, or close it.

Click Save Preset (Optimize) (top right) to save the current view as a named preset. You can set it as your personal default or publish it for everyone at the site. The Presets button shows all saved presets for the site. Use Share link to send a colleague a URL that opens the exact same view. To get the underlying numbers, click Export (Optimize) to download a CSV of your selected series, grouped by device and metric.