What is an Energy Management System? Energy management systems ( EMS ) are software tools that monitor, analyze, and control energy use and system performance. It helps companies identify opportunities to adopt and improve energy-saving technologies, including those that do not necessarily require high capital investment. This might include implementing new energy-efficient technologies, reducing energy waste or improving current processes to cut energy costs.
EMS Capabilities Centralized Data Acquisition: - Automatically bring data streams together from different sources into a common database to allow for visualization of key performance indicators. Supervisory control: - Monitoring and controlling systems for optimization. Operations and maintenance optimization: - Integrate the above capabilities with operations and maintenance processes to increase efficiency. Utility bill management: - Track , understand, and process data from utility bills Interval meter analytics: - Analyze meter data at intervals of one hour or less Measurement and verification: - Quantify and verify the energy savings performance of individual energy conservation measures or efficiency projects Automated fault detection and diagnostics: - Automatically detect equipment-level or system-level faults and diagnose their causes.
Components of EMS Computer Hardware and Microprocessor Frequency Sampling Device LAN and Associated hardware for reading the meters and power quality Analyser MODEM and Communication card for exporting data through GPRS, Wireless, Telephone, Fibre optics on IEC protocol Office automation for data processing
EMS Hardware Computer Servers UI Devices Map board RTUs and other front end devices Communications Hardware Ancillary Devices
EMS Software Operating System Software Application Software Systems and Utilities Software Network Communication and Tracking Software Process Management Software
Benefits of EMS Smart Energy Management Reduce Energy Wastage Minimize Carbon Emission Integrate Green Energy Optimize Asset Maintenance Reduced Operational Expenses Predict consumption and plan for energy usage Effectively address outages and accidents