System Overview - Mitsubishi Electric AE-200A Instruction Book

2-2. System overview

The AE-200/AE-50/EW-50 units provide a comprehensive air conditioning management system that supports
web access.
Through the use of the apportioned electricity billing function, they also allow the electric energy used by each
operating air conditioner to be calculated.
Note
• The example below describes a system where electric energy is metered (with-metering-device method).
The figure below provides a schematic of the system configuration.
HUB
AE-200
LAN
PC
(Initial Setting Tool)
LAN
LAN
HUB
AE-200
LAN
Apportioned electricity billing function requires the following tools:
• Charge Calculation Tool
This tool is required in order to use the AE-200 CSV data (apportioned results) to output the electricity
charges for each tenant, either as a CSV file or as hard-copy printout.
• Initial Setting Tool
This tool is required to make the settings for the apportioned electricity billing function.
Note
• Charge Calculation Tool can calculate the charges for up to 40 AE-50/EW-50 controllers collectively.
Although the connection destination of Charge Calculation Tool is AE-200, AE-200 units set as [AE-200
(Billing)] or [AE-200 (No M-NET)] on the Initial Setting Tool are not included in this 40 connections.
Refer to section 1-4 "PC requirements" for information on the PC system requirements.
Refer to section 5 "Preparation of the software (installation)" for how to install the software.
Refer to section 6-2-2 "AE-200 unit settings" for how to make AE-200 unit settings.
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CSV data
(apportioned results)
"Energy management block"
CSV data
(apportioned results)
"Metering device"
USB memory or
LAN communication
connection
PI controller
M-NET
AE-50/EW-50
Outdoor unit A
M-NET
Outdoor unit B
AE-50/EW-50
PC
(Charge Calculation Tool)
Pulse input communication
Electricity meter
1-1
Tenant A
Tenant B
Indoor unit
Indoor unit
A1
Tenant D
Indoor unit
Indoor unit
B1
11
CSV data
(Charge calculation results)
Printer
(Charge calculation results printout)
Tenant C
Indoor unit
A2
A3
Indoor unit
B2 B3
Electricity meter
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