User manual

Welcome
Congratulations on the purchase of your Aztech In-Home Display (IHD) or Energy Information Display (EID)! This manual
provides information about the operation and features of your In-Home Display.
Your Aztech In-Home Display provides you with intuitive, actionable and timely information about your whole home
electricity usage. Your display communicates wirelessly to the Smart electricity meter installed on your home to present
electricity used, its estimated cost, and historical usage information. Your display is designed to provide your entire family
with easy to understand information about how much electricity you are consuming and how much it costs.
Aztech understands that people learn in different ways and makes a concerted effort to use a wide range of presentation
methods including lights, icons, text and graphics. To help you monitor your progress towards meeting your energy
efficiency and budgetary goals, the Aztech In-Home Display provides graphics that clearly communicate not only how much
electricity was consumed but when it was consumed and how much it costs. Graphical feedback provides evidence of
success and identifies times of high cost or use to promote further targeted conservation action.
The In-Home Display is crowned by a patented light arc that alerts you to current electricity price and usage levels, and
enables you to make immediate changes to reduce energy consumption. The light arc’s easy to understand color code
engages even the youngest preschooler of your household in conservation. The speed at which the colored light moves
along the arc correlates to your energy consumption (turn off an appliance and watch it slow down); and the color of the
light reflects your electricity rates. Electricity rates are at their lowest when the light is green; they have risen when the
light is yellow and are at their highest when the light is red.
While a 120V AC power adapter is provided to power your In-Home Display under normal operation, your display also
supports battery powered operation so that you can take the display through your home and explore how the use of
different appliances impact your energy use. For more information about this feature, see the Quick Read section of this
manual. Before operating on batteries, the IHD must be plugged into AC power for at least 4 hours to charge the
batteries.
This User Manual provides instructions for understanding how to use your Aztech In-Home Display effectively.
A separate Configuration Manual for this product that describes how to set user preferences, configure the system
parameters, and troubleshoot your In-Home Display is also available on
www.myaztech.ca.
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