• 25th August, 2022

How to enable Smart Energy Management for your Infrastructures?

• Electrical energy management includes a strategic investment of money and operational efforts to continuously optimize consumption, reduce electrical downtimes, manage power quality and reduce electricity bills. Energy is a very important aspect as it forms a significant part of your operational costs. And all the infrastructure owners are running different methods to manage the cost and power quality. The infrastructure can be either an industrial factory or commercial real estate. One of the key methods is getting consultancy from third-party auditors. However, the internal departments are also tasked as energy optimization requires routine activities. Optimizing energy consumption for any infrastructure would require regular measurements to understand the consumption at different levels like mains, distribution, and equipment. Small consumers would typically rely on electricity bills as a means to their measurement. And heavy consumers would prefer to track at all the levels to drive energy efficiency. Based on the analysis of these measurements, one can only tell which area requires more focus. Hence, the implementation of energy meters has become a necessity to drive optimization.

• Most of the infrastructure owners are relying on manual data collection from the implemented energy meters and further performing manual analysis to identify the areas of improvement. This method is very questionable and cumbersome at the same time. Questionable because it involves human intervention leading to error-prone data. One can gather data from a particular energy meter once or twice a day. These problems affect the authenticity of the analysis and put the analyst in a constant dilemma. Also, there are instantaneous data like the voltage, power factor, power, harmonics that require continuous attention in order to attend to electrical anomalies that can cause expensive equipment damage or production loss due to downtime. And cumbersome because manual data collection is not a job! You will be putting your resource’s valuable time into collecting the data that can be used in other activities that are far more productive for your company.