Prerequisites for Working with the Smart Instrumentation Interface - Intergraph Smart Electrical - Help - Hexagon

Before you can work with the Smart Instrumentation Interface, do the following:

1. Install the latest version of the MSXML Parser prior to installing Smart Electrical. During Smart Electrical installation, the software prompts you to install MSXML Parser if it is not already installed on your computer.

2. Install the SmartPlant Schema Component from the Smart Electrical CD Browser (select Add-In Software, and then select Schema Component Installation). On the Select Optional Features page, clear the Schema Editor check box if you do not need to use the Schema Editor.

3. Install the SmartPlant Client from the Smart Electrical CD Browser (select Add-In Software, and then select SmartPlant Client Installation). On the Select Features page, make sure that you clear the SmartPlant Automatic Retrieval check box.

4. In Smart Engineering Manager, set access rights for publish and retrieve to Full.

5. In Smart Engineering Manager Format Manager, set the accuracy or units of the following properties to be the same as the corresponding properties in Smart Instrumentation to ensure that there are no mismatches when retrieving data into Smart Electrical:

   Property	Units or Accuracy Value
   Instrument and cabinet rated power	kW
   Rated active, reactive, and apparent loads	kW, kVAr, kVA
   Full load current and starting current	A
   Coincidence factors x, y, z, zz and power factors at 100%	Format = g3

6. In Smart Engineering Manager, under Hierarchy Templates, set up a plant hierarchy with an identical plant structure and with identical plant group names to the plant hierarchy items in Smart Instrumentation for which you are going to publish and retrieve data.

7. In Smart Electrical Options Manager, under Item Types, select the following values for the properties indicated:

   Item Type	Plant group type	Item type uniqueness level	Is unique (check box)
   Cabinet	Plant (or equivalent highest-level plant group)	Plant	Select
   Instrument	Unit (or equivalent lowest-level plant group)	Unit	Select
   SignalRun	Unit (or equivalent lowest-level plant group)	Unit	Select

8. In the Smart Electrical program, publish the plant group data and structure (select SmartPlant > Publish Plant Groups).This operation creates a file, Plant Groups.xml in the folder of the current plant. Smart Instrumentation uses the data in this file to map and register the Smart Electrical plant groups in the new Smart Instrumentation domain.

Before working with the interface, ensure that the appropriate prerequisites are also met on the Smart Instrumentation side. For details, refer to the Smart Instrumentation Online Help topic: Prerequisites for Working with the Smart Electrical Interface.