With the soaring price of energy and climate action urgency, it's time to go all the way on energy and operational efficiency – reaching beyond the quick-win savings you may have already exhausted.
This requires a complete understanding of how, when and where you are using energy across your entire site – from utility meters and on-site generators – right down to an equipment and process level.
Driving efficiency through insight
In an article written for Industrial Plant and Equipment magazine, Jakob Gossmann, Customer Success Manager EMEA & APAC for Centrica Business Solutions, examines how Internet of Things (IoT) energy insights technology can drive operational and energy efficiency.
By using advanced energy insights to capture, analyse and visualise energy consumption across your site and production processes – you can build an integrated energy management strategy to deliver on your commercial, operational and environmental goals.
After all, if your energy intelligence is lacking, how can you understand where waste is occurring and the best opportunities to make savings and improve your energy security? How can you use power more flexibly to reduce bills and generate revenue?
Real-time energy intelligence will tell you exactly how much you are spending and on what specific asset or process across your operations. Armed with this information, you can make better informed business decisions to deliver impressive cost, carbon and production savings.
How energy insights technology works
IoT technologies enable you to gain deeper energy insights at a circuit-level of granularity. This works by linking a cloud-based analytics platform to both utility meters and wireless sensors that monitor critical assets, such as energy intensive equipment and processes, HVAC components, lighting and cooling systems, etc. The self-powered sensors are non-invasive and can be speedily snapped onto the outgoing electrical wire that powers each device, without disrupting operations.
The sensors and 3rd party utility meters, together with any distributed generation assets, continuously collect critical energy intelligence. Data is delivered in real-time to PowerRadar™ energy management platform, which sits at the heart of our customers' energy strategies. This platform creates a single, holistic view of your energy footprint – providing up-to-date visibility of energy performance, at the required level of detail.
In this way you can holistically manage consumption to inform your sustainable energy and operational strategies and deliver the benefits below.