When you have a new Site or Building Unit, you will need to create the Site, Building Unit and any Accounts, Meters, Sub Meters, Virtual Meters, Channels and Supply Points.

Once you have created these (or if they already exist), you create the Tenant and the associated Items.

Click on the link for more information on Creating Tenants

Adding a Site

Right click on the Site Group
Click Add
Click Site
- Enter the Site Name, Benchmark, ID's on the Site tab
Click on the Location tab and enter the address details

Click OK

Adding a Building Unit

Right click on the Site
Click Add
Click Building Unit
- Enter the Name (mandatory), Unit reference and Location

Click OK

Adding a Meter

Right click on the Site
Click Add
Click Meter

Field	Description
Name	Add the Meter Serial Number
Number	Add the Meter Serial Number
Identifier	Add the Meter Serial Number
Location	Enter the location (if known)
Commodity	Choose Electricity, Gas, Water etc
Meter Type	Choose Code 5, Domestic etc
Use installation date	Tick to add a date
Installation date	Add the date the meter was installed

Click OK

Adding a Periodic Channel

Once you have a Meter, you need a Channel to hold the consumption data.

Choose either Non-Periodic Channel or Periodic Channel.

Right click on the Meter
Click Add
Click Non-Periodic Channel (or Periodic Channel)

Field	Description
Name	Enter the name of the Channel (usually the supply number or the meter number)
Data Load ID 1	If half hourly downloads, this will need to be the identifying number on the import
Data Load ID 2	Rarely used, but some imports may have 2 IDs
Channel Register	Choose from All Day, Day, Night etc (default is All Day)
Data type	Defaults to Energy Consumption for Gas and Electricity, change to Volumetric Consumption for Water
Time Zone	This should be the same as the Time Zone set in the Billing Group. Click here for details of the Billing Group Setup
Unit of Measurement	Defaults to kWh for Gas and Electricity, change to M3 for Water
Conversion Factor	Defaults to 1
Data Measurement	Defaults to Consumption
Channel Data Quality	Defaults to Primary
Closed	Only used if closing the Channel
Meter Readings	Tick to indicate that the consumption will be entered in meter readings (not as consumption values)

Once the Meter Readings tick box has been ticked, the Advanced Settings fields are available:

Field	Description
Minimum Value	Defaults to 0
Auto Max	Untick to allow a Maximum Value to be added
Maximum Value	This is the reading at which the meter clocks. For example it the maximum amount of numbers in the reading is 5, then 99999 would be entered into this field. Once this reading is reached, the Meter will clock
Clocking Threshold (CFT)	A figure between 0 – 100 (percent) is added. 0 would mean the Meter never clocks, 100 would mean if the Meter Reading entered is lower than the previous, Sigma will assume it has clock. Its recommended to add a figure of 100
Max is Last	Defaults to unticked

Click OK to save the Channel

Adding a Sub Meter

Right click on the Site
Click Add
Click Sub Meter

Complete the Meter Editor pop up in the same way that you would a standard Meter (see above)

Once created, create a Non-Periodic or Periodic Channel underneath, in the same way that you would for a standard Meter (see here)

Adding a Virtual Meter

A Virtual Meter can be added when you don't have an actual meter and you want to use consumption values from one or more other Meter or Sub Meters.

Virtual Meters can also be used with calculations. For example you may have a Sub Meter in a Shop Unit, but you also want to charge a portion of the Main Meter. Both Meters are added to the Virtual Meter and a sum entered with the equation.

Right click on the Site
Click Add
Click Virtual Meter

Field	Description
Name	Enter the name for the Virtual Meter
Description	(optional)
Commodity	Choose from the dropdown
Equation	Leave blank if you want to add together all of the Meters in the Selected section An example equation may be that you want to charge for a Sub Meter and a 1/4 of the Main Meter. The Equation would be [1]+([2]/4).
Selecting from items of type	Defaults to Meter. Can be changed to: Associated Data Meter Sub Meter Virtual Meter When you change the Item type here, the Unselected box will show any available
Show all tickbox	Tick to show all available Meters across the whole database
Unselected	Shows any available Meters for the Site The search field allows you to search all the Meters
Selected	Drag and drop Meter(s) from the Unselected section