In the 21st century it is near impossible for an industrial or commercial facility to operate without electricity. Businesses still perceive energy consumption, a significant part of operating expenditure, as a black box. Fuel and electricity bills inform us about the energy purchased for our facility, but they fail to show how and when this energy is consumed or wasted. By adopting Energy Data Monitoring, facilities can move beyond guesswork and gain control over energy usage.
You are not alone if you have wondered:
- Is my electricity bill correct?
- How can I reduce my electricity and fuel bills while maximizing production?
- Which machines are consuming how much electricity?
- Which parts of my facility are consuming energy during downtime?
- How do I know when a machine might need maintenance?
With the right tools, Energy Data Monitoring answers all these questions and more. Facilities can reduce wastage, identify underperforming machines, and enable predictive maintenance by installing Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and collecting real-time energy data. Energy data monitoring identifies machines consuming excessive energy and suggests ways to reduce wastage. Facilities can use non-energy data for normalization and benchmarking. Production data, occupancy data, weather data and building floor area are useful for putting context around your kWh consumption. Monitoring facility energy performance and verifying its alignment with building designs are crucial steps. An effective energy analytics platform streamlines energy data analysis by automatically trending and normalizing it against key variables.
Manually recording energy metrics is not only tedious but also inefficient for deriving analytical insights. Even spreadsheet programs like excel are plagued with slow computing speed and awkward calculation methods which cannot provide real time, in-depth processes.
The Importance of Real-Time Energy Data Monitoring
Energeia provides a centralised SaaS-based system which can eliminate challenges like manual entry, data delays, compatibility issues, etc. associated with currently employed methodologies. We simply and streamline complex energy analysis as well as reporting to just a few clicks of the button so you can focus on other critical business activities.
Intelligent energy monitoring helps energy-intensive industries like cement, textiles, and manufacturing units become more competitive by reducing costs through waste mitigation. In such settings Energeia’s platform helps through the following features:
View complete breakdown of energy consumption of individual machines in a timestamped manner and compare daily consumption patterns with each other.
Analytical engine generates consumption trends of the past month and compares real time values with it, enabling baseline generation.
Create custom alarms and get alerted when energy consumption deviates from usual observed pattern, enabling predictive and preventive maintenance.
Develop and track customized KPIs by overlaying data from multiple meters and production data to create a new datapoint.
Analyze and forecast potential monetary savings that can be unlocked in specific machines by certain process or behavioral changes.
Monitor and Verify the energy savings enabled by an Energy Efficiency Project in the facility. Create comprehensive reports to document the Project.
Click here to learn more about how Energeia helped one of its clients save energy just by monitoring and analyzing their energy data
If you would like to talk to us about your energy efficiency projects, please contact us for a free demo of our platform.
