An EMS should simplify Energy Management

1. An EMS should simplify Energy Management Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance. ---Ban Ki-moon Nearly half the industry considers energy management software a vital component of their corporate strategy, a study by Deloitte discovered last year. It also predicts year-over-year growth in the integration of energy management into their overall business strategy. An increasing number of organisations have been actively building up sensors, systems and energy management platforms to optimise energy, and also installing alternative power generation sources. They are also making the most of the potential of real-time data that has exploded in the past decade. The EMS can come as a stand-alone product or is also available as a module with environmental suite of products. So there is awareness and there is a keen forward motion, but holistic energy management is still elusive. The causes are many, the top ones being the scattered responsibility for energy management and unpredictability of energy prices. This slows down the whole process of measuring various projects’ efficiency. There are hardware offerings in the market that help generate power on-site, but they add to costs, bringing the whole effort back to square one. Choose your software wisely It is important for an energy manager to choose the right energy management software. The insights the software brings about the effectiveness of energy saving measures underpin his judgment of the facility’s energy efficiency. A company’s important decisions – such as budgeting and can’t be made with a scattergun approach. They need accurate figures and facts, not hunches and guesswork. Whether your energy manager is using the right software can be determined by the following criteria:

2. 1. It generates reliable and accurate reports, efficiently tracks data trends, gives equipment maintenance indications, and normalises energy data. 2. It provides automatic digital readings to save large number of man hours by giving detailed and simplified billing process. 3. It is compatible with your integrated workplace management system (IWMS). IWMS compatibility saves you a lot of time as it provides accurate data about energy drains within seconds. 4. It saves you the process of deciphering complex energy analytics such as discovering patterns and energy drains which, if laid by specialists on proprietary spreadsheets, can’t be integrated with the software that you are using to manage your facility. 5. It supports your efforts at sustainability, which is the whole purpose of using energy management software. Besides the usual data of the processes, it should also offer insights into whether there are any changes in the system which are affecting sustainability. The software is thus critical to the success of your energy manager’s campaigns. His sustainability decisions can’t be left to spreadsheets and guesses. Conclusion Today’s energy softwares have been modified enough to deal with the complexities and unpredictability. The confusion they cause is because of the varied market for Energy Management Systems. Corporate managers can still get through this by prioritizing their needs while choosing from the of innumerable EMS offerings available. Source: Wipro EcoEnergy