Features
The Visual Economic Tool has been redesigned based on feedback from Visual customers.
The Visual Economic
Tool now supports multiple spaces, luminaires and controls per lighting design option. Purchase a Professional license to gain full access.
The new and improved interface is simpler and easier to use. The printed report has been completely
redesigned to make it easier to present and explain your financial analysis to your customer. The Visual
Economic Tool incorporates the new Visual Cloud services to automatically save your project and eliminate the need to save files to your computer.
Benefits
The Visual Economic Tool can be used to determine the most economically viable design
solution for both new installations and retrofits. Economic analysis is
used to weigh the potential monetary values of lighting systems that provide the
same quality of light.
- Divide your project up into multiple spaces
- Compare design options in each space and project wide
- Add multiple luminaire types and control types in each design option
- Save luminaires as favorites, or save whole luminaire schedules
- Compare any manufacturer's products
- Complete life cycle analysis based on IES RP-31
- Comprehensive and customizable report generation
Customers using the Visual Economic Tool can support their design recommendations
not only with aesthetic appeal, but also by justifying cost savings to the owner. Life
cycle cost estimation looks beyond the initial costs, studying the long term benefits
of energy and maintenance savings.
Data management
The Economic Tool 2.0 integrates seemlessly with Visual web-based file management system. Your files are automatically saved each time you make a change, and are always available to you without
having to upload a file. However, we don't hold your data hostage! You may also choose to download your project as a .VETX xml file that you can upload back into the tool next time you use it.
Professional
Users who purchase a Professional license gain full access to the Economic Tool feature set. Professional has no limit on the number of luminaires you can include in a project.
Professional analysis includes 3 Design Options so users can compare existing HID, to LED and Fluorescent options simultaneously in each space.
- Compare 2 Design Options to the Baseline Design Option
- Upload custom print logo
- Priority Support
- No Luminaire limit
License Info
The Visual Economic Tool employs an internet-based license that will be managed and stored on the Acuity Brands servers.
The license is an annual subscription service. The annual subscription fee provides a single seat
License allowing 1 user to use the tool at a time. Companies can purchase additional seats per License,
if they need multiple users to access the Economic Tool at the same time. The license administrator will be able to grant,
or take away, access to the license using activation codes generated on the account page. Each user of a license will sign
in with their own email address. All files created on a license will be shared across all users of the license.
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