An EMS should simplify Energy Management
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<strong>An</strong> <strong>EMS</strong> <strong>should</strong> <strong>simplify</strong> <strong>Energy</strong> <strong>Management</strong><br />
Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a<br />
framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise<br />
environmental stewardship and strengthen governance. ---Ban Ki-moon<br />
Nearly half the industry considers energy management software a vital<br />
component of their corporate strategy, a study by Deloitte discovered last year.<br />
It also predicts year-over-year growth in the integration of energy management<br />
into their overall business strategy.<br />
<strong>An</strong> increasing number of organisations have been actively building up sensors,<br />
systems and energy management platforms to optimise energy, and also<br />
installing alternative power generation sources. They are also making the most<br />
of the potential of real-time data that has exploded in the past decade. The <strong>EMS</strong><br />
can come as a stand-alone product or is also available as a module with<br />
environmental suite of products.<br />
So there is awareness and there is a keen forward motion, but holistic energy<br />
management is still elusive. The causes are many, the top ones being the<br />
scattered responsibility for energy management and unpredictability of energy<br />
prices. This slows down the whole process of measuring various projects’<br />
efficiency. There are hardware offerings in the market that help generate power<br />
on-site, but they add to costs, bringing the whole effort back to square one.<br />
Choose your software wisely<br />
It is important for an energy manager to choose the right energy management<br />
software. The insights the software brings about the effectiveness of energy<br />
saving measures underpin his judgment of the facility’s energy efficiency. A<br />
company’s important decisions – such as budgeting and can’t be made with a<br />
scattergun approach. They need accurate figures and facts, not hunches and<br />
guesswork.<br />
Whether your energy manager is using the right software can be determined by<br />
the following criteria:
1. It generates reliable and accurate reports, efficiently tracks data trends, gives<br />
equipment maintenance indications, and normalises energy data.<br />
2. It provides automatic digital readings to save large number of man hours by<br />
giving detailed and simplified billing process.<br />
3. It is compatible with your integrated workplace management system<br />
(IWMS). IWMS compatibility saves you a lot of time as it provides accurate<br />
data about energy drains within seconds.<br />
4. It saves you the process of deciphering complex energy analytics such as<br />
discovering patterns and energy drains which, if laid by specialists on<br />
proprietary spreadsheets, can’t be integrated with the software that you are<br />
using to manage your facility.<br />
5. It supports your efforts at sustainability, which is the whole purpose of using<br />
energy management software. Besides the usual data of the processes, it <strong>should</strong><br />
also offer insights into whether there are any changes in the system which are<br />
affecting sustainability.<br />
The software is thus critical to the success of your energy manager’s campaigns.<br />
His sustainability decisions can’t be left to spreadsheets and guesses.<br />
Conclusion<br />
Today’s energy softwares have been modified enough to deal with the<br />
complexities and unpredictability. The confusion they cause is because of the<br />
varied market for <strong>Energy</strong> <strong>Management</strong> Systems. Corporate managers can still<br />
get through this by prioritizing their needs while choosing from the of<br />
innumerable <strong>EMS</strong> offerings available.<br />
Source: Wipro Eco<strong>Energy</strong>