Creating, Applying and Editing Special Events

| Overview

A Special Schedule is a schedule that allows a Facility manager to introduce a schedule that is outside of a Building Occupancy. For example, a Facility manager would want to schedule the building on a Saturday for a small duration for which he would want the building's HVAC equipment to run. It further provides the flexibility to create a schedule that overrides a vacation that is created based on a holiday calendar for a year at any specific date which is an active nonholiday for the building.

A schedule like this on a Saturday or on any public holiday that is outside of the actual building schedule has been made possible with the Introduction of a Special Schedule.

The special schedule is a schedule that once added will bypass the zone schedule, Shared Schedule, or any vacation for that zone for that specific time duration, acting as a kind of master schedule. This is quite similar to vacation which can override any schedule but in a reversible way.

| Creating a Special Schedule

From the Portals heatmap screen.

• Access the Zones to which you would like to add the special schedule.

• Click the zone to access the widgets screen.

• Scroll to locate the special schedule section. 

• Click Add Special Schedule+
• The Special Schedule screen is displayed.

• Enter a name for the special schedule.

• Select the temperature mode for the special event.

For more information on the temperature modes, refer to the following.

There are four temperature modes that the user can use to interact with the Heating Desired and Cooling Desired temperatures for scheduling.

• Dual Desired Fixed Deadband, for more information on the heating desired and Cooling desired temperatures interaction, refer to Temperature Modes, Dual Setpoint Fixed Deadband & Variable Deadband- Facilisight Web App
• Dual Desired Variable Deadbad, for more information on the heating desired and Cooling desired temperatures interaction, refer to Temperature Modes, Dual Setpoint Fixed Deadband & Variable Deadband- Facilisight Web App
• Single Setpoint this temeprarture mode is applicable only for the edge devices and occupant app, for for more information on the setpoint interaction, refer to Temperature Modes, Single Setpoint & Setpoint Offset Modes- Facilisight Web App
• Single Setpoint Offset this temeprarture mode is applicable only for the edge devices and occupant app, for more information on the setpoint interaction, refer to Temperature Modes, Single Setpoint & Setpoint Offset Modes- Facilisight Web App

Use the temperature mode simulator to understand the temperature modes better, simulate and set the required temperature mode.

The temperature modes simulator screen displays.

For more information on the temperature mode simulator, refer to Temperature Mode Simulator

• Use the slider and set the desired temperatures.

Note: The scheduler interactivity is similar to Shared Schedule and follows the same actions to add edit or delete occupied or unoccupied slots. For more information on Shared Schedule, refer to Creating, Applying and Editing Shared Schedules

• Click Save to confirm.

The special schedule at the zone level is added and the same will be applied to the zone of the building.

Note: Similar user limits exist for zone special schedules and building special schedules.

| Special Schedule at Building Level

From the Facilisight portal,

• Click the Share Schedule option.

The shared schedule screen is displayed.

• Select the organization in scope from the drop-down.

The screen displays three sections with list of schedules created under the shared, Special events and vacations for the organization.

• Scroll to locate the special events section.

• Click Create Special Event.

The rest of the actions are similar to creating a special schedule at a zone level.

From here, the special event can be applied to any zone or any number of zones within the organization, for more information on the application or bulk application of the special evets, refer to Bulk Applying Special Events & Vacations from Facilisight

| Editing a Special Schedule

• Click to Edit a Special Schedule from the zone widget screen or the Shared Schedule screen.

• The Edit Special Schedule Screen is displayed.

• Make the required changes in the parameters and Click Save, post editing the schedule.

| Deleting a Special Schedule

A Special Schedule can be deleted by clicking the from the zone widget screen or the Shared Schedule screen.

• Click Confirm to delete the special schedule or cancel to go back to the previous screen.

| Non-Zero Deadband

This feature ensures that the heating and cooling deadband can be set to a minimum of 0.5°F, preventing a zero deadband scenario and ensuring compliance with Guideline 36. By implementing this, the heating and cooling desired temperatures will never be equal, even if set to their minimum values and there will always be a difference of 1F between the heating and cooling deadband.

| Validations

For more information on Special schedule validations refer to Scheduler Validations.

| Calculation for Setback Temperatures based on Special Schedule

Let us consider a scenario where in a building that follows a default Monday-to-Friday schedule with desired heating and cooling temperatures set to 70°F and 74°F respectively, the schedule typically ends at 8 PM on Friday. After this time period, the building enters an unoccupied state, where the setback temperatures are adjusted to 65°F for heating and 79°F for cooling.

However, if a Facility Manager assigns a special schedule for Sunday from 11 AM to 4 PM, the unoccupied setback temperatures during this period are set to 63°F for heating and 77°F for cooling. Once the special Sunday schedule ends, the system will revert to the original unoccupied setback temperatures of 65°F and 79°F respectively.