Cost efficient W.A.G.E.S management: energy meter is key !
(Water Air Gas Electricity Steam)
From my point of view, I think that Energy management is a major action in all Energy Efficiency programs.
If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it!
The first thing to do if we want to optimize the consumption of a building is to know, ie to measure and record in a database, all the consumptions for making analysis and having a clear vision on the division of consumptions in the building.
When I say all the consumptions, I think not only electrical power but also the consumption of water, gas, fuel, heat and cold energies.
Therefore, it will be possible to
We don’t need to measure the consumption of highly sophisticated equipment. Energy Meter delivering pulses is very cheap and with pulses, we can measure all the energy streams. For example, we can use the little EN40 power meter for single phase feeder up to 40A.
The example given below is for small & medium size building such as a school, hotel, office building, shopping centre …
We must have now a RTU (Remote Terminal Unit), which could be a web server, that can generates easily the
The RTU, remote terminal unit, could also have the possibility to drive an output for load shedding.
On user initiative, it is possible to connect to the RTU web server to see
This solution could involve all types of buildings in my opinion.
Even at home, I see the good, because actually I am unable to know the
details of my consumption, whether my consumption is in an acceptable
average or not and identify priorities for actions.
What do you thinks about a simple and cheap installation like this allowing you to have a fully understanding of all energy streams?
Do you know some solutions like this in the market?
(Water Air Gas Electricity Steam)
From my point of view, I think that Energy management is a major action in all Energy Efficiency programs.
If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it!
The first thing to do if we want to optimize the consumption of a building is to know, ie to measure and record in a database, all the consumptions for making analysis and having a clear vision on the division of consumptions in the building.
When I say all the consumptions, I think not only electrical power but also the consumption of water, gas, fuel, heat and cold energies.
Therefore, it will be possible to
- Assess real building energy performance, while Energy Performance Certificates rely on theoretical calculations
- Identify and evaluate opportunities for energy savings
- Evaluate energy saving investments real profitability
- Identify drifts, abnormal consumptions and maintain the best energy performances by acting on
– the occupants behaviour
– the energy saving system settings
– the leakages, bad uses; etc…
We don’t need to measure the consumption of highly sophisticated equipment. Energy Meter delivering pulses is very cheap and with pulses, we can measure all the energy streams. For example, we can use the little EN40 power meter for single phase feeder up to 40A.
The example given below is for small & medium size building such as a school, hotel, office building, shopping centre …
energy management
- CSV files for each metering channel: the Remote Terminal Unit calculates and stores
– 10 or 15′ power demand and consumption
– Hour, day, week, month and year average consumption datas (difference of the pulse totalizer data between the period) - Dashboards
- Mimics diagrams
- Curves
- Reports
On user initiative, it is possible to connect to the RTU web server to see
- dashbords
- mimic diagrams
- data files and curves
- download CSV data files for Excel analysis
- order the output
What do you thinks about a simple and cheap installation like this allowing you to have a fully understanding of all energy streams?
Do you know some solutions like this in the market?
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