Once you’re in the Energy tab, select Benchmarking. Benchmarking is designed to compare consumption between sites or devices.

There are two options available with Benchmarking. In the Filter panel, select Device or Site, mark the sites or devices you want to compare and click the Refresh button. As many bars as the selected element appear.

Benchmarking by Device - enables you to benchmark similar devices on the same site.

Benchmarking by Site - enables you to benchmark the same type of sites within your account. For example, you can compare a few retail stores, and then normalize by area to see if the results are interesting/meaningful.

Group By

Select an option to see the distribution thereof. Select None to cancel the distribution display.

Normalize By

While some sites or devices may consume more or less than the others, the data does not necessarily reflect the efficiency of the consumption. For example, a small area may show a smaller energy consumption compared to a larger area, but its efficiency may be lower than the larger one.

The options are:

Option	Description
Opening Hours	Normalizes consumption comparison according to the activity and inactivity hours of the selected entry.
CDD	Normalizes consumption according the Cooling Degree Days. This is the ambient temperature above which cooling is needed on each day (or part of a day). The temperature (base temperature) is compared to the ambient temperature. If a site in a hot area uses more cooling energy compared to a site in a milder area, this may not necessarily point to an over-consumption problem unless the outside temperature difference between the two sites does not warrant the consumption shown by the site in the cold area. The normalization process divulges such discrepancies.
HDD	Heating Degree Days – same as CDD only it represents the temperature under which heating is needed on each day.

Show Line

Select the desired option to display the Average or the Median (or both) lines. This allows you to detect consumption or cost that's abnormally higher than the average. Both Average and Median refer to the totality of the sites or devices, and not only to the selected ones.