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# Introduction to [GreenEdge](https://greenedge.axiansiot.com/)
> This training course will help you discover how the greenEdge works and how you use it to keep track of your carbon footprint.
## [What is GreenEdge?](./GreenEdgeInfo.md)
## [What is GreenEdge?](introduction/introduction.md)
Learn more about what the GreenEdge portal supports.

## [Dashboard](./GreenEdgeDashboard.md)
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# What is GreenEdge?
*GreenEdge automates data collection and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions for enterprises. It minimizes the effort and enhances the data quality for reporting and budgets along with a customized dashboard to further engage staff members, partners and customers.*

**GreenEdge** is made to give controll of your carbon emission footprint by automating the process of collecting the emissions.

Througout this course we will go through all aspects of GreeEdge, such as *Sites*, *Emissions*, *Reporting*, *Budgets* and more.


<img src="/images/introduction_1.png">

## Basic principles

### Organizations
*Organizations* reflects the hierarchical structure of your organization, and may be made up of multiple levels which often reflects regions to some level.

*Organizations* are visible through the navigation of the GreenEdge dashboard. *Organizational* dashboards provides an **aggregated** overview of all *Business units* below.

*Organizations* cannot be managed through GreenEdge. Changes in the organizational structure is handled through integration with back-end systems.

### Business units
**Business units** is where it happens! All *Emissions*, *Reporting* and *Budgets* are collected and managed on *Business unit* level. All *Business units* belong to one *Organization*.

### Sites
A *site* represents any type of facility, such as an office, a warehouse or a store. A *Business unit* may have one or more *sites*, and may share *sites* with other *Business units*.

*Sites* may optionally be connected where *emissions* such as electricity, heating and water is automatically collected.

### Emission sources
*Emission sources* are collected in a "raw" format, where unit and scale might differ. For instance, electricity is collected in kWh while diesel might be collected in liters. All *Emission sources* are catagorized and given a **factor**. This factor is used to convert the raw input to CO2-e.

There are three ways of *Emissions* can be collected:
* Integrated sites
* *Emissions are automatically collected from meters and sensors installed on-site*
* API integration
* *Emissions are collected from calling external vendors or partners*
* File import
* *Emissions are created through file-import*

### Reporting
GreenEdge comes with a reporting tool that can be used to analyse your carbon emission footprint. While there are many built-in reports, you can also create your own reports.

### Budgets
Your organization has an overall goal of how to lower the carbon emission footprint. This goal is defined by a "baseline" year, an "target" year together with a percentage of how much it should be lowered.

Each *Business unit* is given individual budgets aligned with the overall goal. To meet the budget, *Business units* needs to define a number of *Actions*. For instance, an *Action* might be "Switch all lamps to led", or "Only use HVO100 for service vehicles"

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