Solmetric SunEye 210, User Manual

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Using the SunEye
About Sessions and Skylines
About Sessions and Skylines
The SunEye organizes the solar access data in Sessions and Skylines.
Session A “Session” is a collection of measurement data that was taken for a
particular site visit. You will generally create a new session for each
client or site you visit. An example of a session name might be
“Roger Smith’s House”. One session will generally contain multiple
skyline data sets and photos.
You can add notes to the session to help identify the session in the
future. For example, you could include client contact information or
other information about the particular site being analyzed.
Skyline A “Skyline” is a single set of solar access data captured at a specific
location within a site. For example, one skyline might be captured at
the north side of the roof of Roger Smith’s house. Another skyline
might be captured at the center of the roof of Roger Smith’s House. A
skyline includes a fisheye image, a sunpath diagram, and solar access
calculations. Every time a new skyline is captured, the data is stored
under the current session. One session can hold many skylines.
You can add notes to a skyline to help identify the skyline in the
future. For example, you could include the location of the captured
data such as “north side of roof.”
N O T E The SunEye can store more than 100 skylines (the actual number depends on the particular
images captured and can store up to 200 in some cases). The number of sessions can vary. You
can have one session with 100 skylines or 100 sessions with one skyline each.
Create a Session
A session is like a site visit. You would generally create a new session for each new client. Each
session will generally consist of multiple skyline data sets. The Session menu selections are as
follows:
• Weather Properties – shows the properties for the selected weather model. See “Weather, Air
quality and Clouds” on page 4-3.
• Session Data Summaries – allows you to select the skylines used to compute the monthly solar
access averages or session obstruction elevation average or maximum. See “Session Data Sum-