"Achieving Energy Savings is Easier Than
You Think"
But are your carbon footsteps as green as they could be ?
One of the first steps you should take when looking to reduce the energy requirement of your business is to consider the use of a Building Energy Management System or (BEMS). If you want to put energy saving and money saving measures into action within your organisation as soon as possible & be able to measure your achievements instantly, then here is the quickest & easiest way to go about it:
First Step:
You must be able to measure how much energy your business is currently using by taking regular meter readings every week. It makes it easier to see when improvements are working, and how much you are saving, but walking round a large building weekly to measure all the meters is both time consuming and prone to human error, "so why not monitor your existing energy meters automatically" & perhaps fit some additional ones to get a better picture of where usage is at its worst.
The newly developed Ethernet Metering Interface Controller (EMIC) provides a cost-effective way of allowing readings from multiple, multi-parameter electricity meters to be automatically channelled to a Trend Building Energy Management System (BEMS), where they can be displayed, analysed and then acted on to effect energy savings.
The EMIC or SIP is compatible with 13 of the most commonly installed multi-parameter Modbus sub-meters from six manufacturers Namely, Elcontrol, Socomec, Northern Design, IME, Carlo Gavazzi and Autometers Systems. Three versions are available, for applications involving up to 8, 16 and 32 networked meters. All are able to log and communicate up to 25 parameters, including kWh, kVAh, kVArh, maximum demand, power factor and frequency back to a BEMS or even the new Trend Energy Manager M&T package.
The EMIC interface connects to a Trend building energy management system via the latter's Ethernet TCP/IP communications network. The metered data is instantly accessible through any of the BEMS's 963 supervisors (operator interfaces), which can display the information in various formats, including trend graphs.
If you are ready to take the next step, follow our footsteps to find out more:
