Relevant for ZEVs (Self-Consumption Communities) with electricity meters and optional charging stations.
Folder Structure for smart-me Electricity Billing
Folder structure: A two-level hierarchy is mandatory.
At this point, billing is set up and includes all apartments, rooms, and parking spaces as subfolders, along with their relevant electricity meters.
1 folder for the property (e.g., Altgasse ZEV)
1 subfolder per billing unit, i.e., per apartment or invoice recipient. Our suggestion for folder naming:
Naming of Billing Units (Tips):
ZEV with a single building: Apartment designation (e.g., APT Upper Floor Left, APT Upper Floor Right, etc.)
ZEV with multiple buildings: Building designation + Apartment designation (e.g., Altgasse 13 APT Upper Floor Left, Altgasse 13 APT Upper Floor Right, etc.)
3a. Base structure
Assign the relevant meters to the nodes using the drag-and-drop function.
Important Information Regarding Assignment:
Electricity / Heat / Water
Only assign meter points directly to the billing units if the invoice recipient will later have to pay for 100% of the consumption.
If you only want to assign a meter partially to an individual billing unit, move the meter into a node within the "Technical Meters" node. Later in billing, such a meter can be distributed by percentage.
Examples:
General meters (common area meters)
Heat meter of a floor that serves 4 billing units
Charging stations with smart-me Pico / Zaptec / Easee
Do not assign charging stations directly to apartments; instead, create a separate billing unit for the charging station. This makes tenant changes easier to process.
Charging stations from other manufacturers
Charging stations from other manufacturers are not directly managed or billed in smart-me. In this case, create a node for the e-mobility outgoing feeder as a billing unit and assign the outgoing meter to the node. This way, you obtain the total consumption for all charging stations.
3a. Detail structure with meters
This way, you will notice early on if a meter fails and minimize the resulting gap in measurement data.