Licenses

All licenses that are activated for the current device are displayed on the Licenses card. These are either enabled functions or data point packages that can be used in conjunction with this device. You can also see how many units of the respective license have already been used.

Energy Management: The number of data points that can be used for energy management, i.e. mainly in chart widgets.
Energy Reporting: The number of data points that can be used for energy reporting, i.e. as part of automatically generated PDF reports.
Heads-up!: The number of data points that can be used in the context of an alarm.
Operate: The number of data points that can be used in a control system on schematics.
Sent SMS: If you want to see how many text messages were sent by SMS on your client account, go to the General Licenses card on the Billing page.
Weather Forecast: The number of forecast data points of the Avelon weather service that can be used.
Weather Readings: The number of weather readings from the Avelon weather service that can be used.

Warning

If the suffix “Free” is added to one of the data point packets, this means that this data point packet was not purchased. In this case, Avelon provides a free entry-level license so that basic functions can still be used. However, the functionality of the free licenses is limited. For example, measurement data are only stored for a few days, and the configuration options for alarms are limited.

To purchase additional licenses for the device, please click Shop. You will then be redirected to the Avelon Shop. This function is only available on Avelon Cloud.

Building automation

This section is only applicable to IoT devices in combination with a Beetle.

Building Automation is a license that can be purchased and assigned to an IoT device, allowing the user to create surrogate BACnet objects for the data points of the device.

For Wisely AllSense devices with a Building Automation license, users can enable measurement recording on each data point individually. The Payload Type will no longer be available on the device configuration page, and the device will use a custom payload type based on the configured measurement recordings.

In order to be able to create surrogate BACnet objects, the network provider of the IoT device must be set to a Beetle, and the IoT device needs a Building Automation license assigned.

Some IoT devices can be purchased from the Avelon web shop with a Building Automation license already included.

Limitations

Devices with a Building Automation or LoRaWAN Self-Hosting license or devices that are assigned to a Beetle cannot be unregistered.
Building Automation and LoRaWAN Self-Hosting licenses cannot be enabled on the same device at the same time.
A Building Automation license is required on non-BACnet devices whose data points you want to use in BACnet as surrogate BACnet objects.
A Building Automation license is required to use the Schematic Link feature on the IoT app.
It’s not possible to use an IoT device outside of Avelon Cloud and transfer it to a custom IoT network or application when it has a Building Automation license.

Note on BACnet objects

In general, a license is only required for data points that are used in the Avelon system. The type of use determines the type of license.

BACnet offers several options for implementing alarms and data recording, and depending on the type of implementation, the number of BACnet objects on the automation station varies.

When reconciling a complete automation station, all BACnet objects are imported, including objects with intrinsic alarms, event enrollment objects, notification classes and trend logs, and some data points will automatically consume one of the licenses as described below.

Intrinsic alarms and notification classes

When a Notification Class is reconciled, the system subscribes to it and receives all events and alarms that are sent through it. Since each BACnet object that references a notification class can potentially send alarms, these data points automatically consume a Heads-up! license.

Therefore, it is recommended to set up alarms for all data points (BACnet objects) that can send alarms and are flagged with Heads-up!.

Trend logs and buffer ready events

If the data recording is implemented via Trend Log objects on the automation station, these BACnet trend log objects send Buffer Ready events, which will trigger the system to read out the current buffer and store the recorded values in the database¹, so that the history of measurements is preserved beyond the internal buffer size of the respective trend log objects. For an optimal user experience, the system references both the recorded object and the recording object. Thus, both objects are flagged with a license (usually Operate).

¹ Values are temporarily stored on the Beetle before they are automatically sent to the server for long-term storage.