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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>

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