What's new in Power Monitoring Expert 2023

Power Monitoring Expert 2023 is a major release that introduces a number of new features and improvements. We strongly recommend you upgrade your existing Power Monitoring Expert system to version Power Monitoring Expert 2023.

Highlights of this release

• Graphic Editor and TGML Viewer is newly added to PME.
• Implementation of Secure ION, secure EtherGate, and secure Modbus useful for connecting to devices that support Secure ION and Modbus encryption communication. By utilizing this capability, your installations will benefit from encrypted communications by Transport Layer Security (TLS) implementation in Power Monitoring Expert 2023.
• EWS client 1.2 real time data support to monitor the data from EcoStruxure Building Operation and smart connector applications.
• Power Monitoring Expert 2023 supports the definition of custom days that can be used to aggregate data (daily, weekly, monthly and yearly) in reports, and dashboards.
• Three new Power Monitoring Expert Windows Services are included to help improve performance.
• Strong password policy is implemented for PME standard users and is enforced when password is created or modified for a PME standard user.
• Waveform analytics provides the information on the cause for voltage disturbance.
• Device replacement manager ensures there is no spike or dip in the dashboards and reports when the device is replaced or the parameter overflow happens upon reaching the threshold value.
• New Reports: Device Replacement report and IEC61000-2-4 report.
• Neutral Protection settings values added to the Circuit breaker setting report.

 

Details of this release

NOTE: The following is a selected list of changes for this release, it is not a comprehensive list.

Web Applications

Item	Details
Custom day update	You can now define a custom start of the day; based on requirements or shifts. You can then use custom day in dashboards and reports to aggregate data on a daily, weekly, monthly and yearly basis.
PME Windows Services	To help improve performance, three new services are included:  ION Application Modules Core Service Host (x64 bit) ION Application Modules Data Service Host (x64 bit) ION Application Modules Provider Engine Host (x64 bit)
Graphic Editor	You can now design a one-line diagram using PME provided standard component and custom component. You can also add animations to the component. Graphic Editor is integrated with EWS sources, Ethernet Devices, VIP, logical devices, and so on. To bind TGML component, double-click the respective device or source, and then double-click Managers > Modules >Output Registers/Measurement Names.
TGML Viewer	You can now view the TGML document in Diagrams > Graphic Diagrams.
Strong Password Policy	You can now set new passwords and edit existing passwords using the strong password criteria. Strong password criteria: A password must have at least 8 characters and contain at least one character from each of the following: uppercase letters lowercase letters numbers special characters.
Circuit Breaker Setting Report	You can now view the Neutral settings values in the report.
Change in Trends	You can now generate Trends relative to device / source time zone. You can also chose the X-axis time zone as source or browser time zone.
Device replacement manager	You can now view the gadgets and report with no dip of data values when the device is replaced or the parameter overflow happens upon reaching the threshold value.
Waveform analytics	You can now view the waveform analytics information, which indicates the cause for voltage disturbance.
Energy model forecasting	You can now configure and view gadget and report data for the future dates. You need to manually provide the future dates information.

Reports and Gadgets

Item	Details
New reports	Device Replacement Report IEC61000-2-4 Report
Updated reports	IEEE 519-2022 Report Harmonic Compliance Report was renamed to Harmonic Compliance Report - Legacy. Harmonic Compliance 2014 Report was renamed to Harmonic Compliance Report.
Improved reports	SARFI Report Bar Chart Consumption Ranking Energy Equivalency Period over Period Pie Chart Table Trend Chart, Circuit Breaker Setting Report

Operating Environment

Item	Details
New SQL Server version support	PME supports SQL Server 2022 Standard/Enterprise/Business Intelligence. SQL Server 2022 Express is included with PME 2023

For the complete list of supported operating systems and SQL Server versions, see the IT Requirements chapter in this guide.

Performance

Item	Details
Quality improvements	PME 2023 includes a wide range of quality improvements.