PowerLogic ION EEM enterprise energy management software

Features

ION EEM offers all the features you need to create a truly enterprise-wide energy management system.

• True enterprise-level software architecture: data quality assurance, data warehouse, web framework
• Web portal: personalized dashboards, key performance indicators, charts, trends, real-time conditions
• Reporting: rich and customized content, support for complex data and graphics, scheduled distribution
• Trending: advanced visualization, dimensional analysis, prediction, statistical rollups
• Energy modelling: regression analysis, normalization, correlation, integration of all relevant drivers and contextual data
• Billing: built-in rate engine with rate wizard, bill validation and sub-billing
• Power quality analysis: wide-area event monitoring, classification, filtering, correlation
• Integration: meters and other devices, weather and pricing feeds, other enterprise applications (e.g. BAC, ERP)

Typical applications

• Manage all utilities (electricity, gas, water, etc.) and emissions through a single, unified interface
• Benchmark and compare facility performance across an entire enterprise to identify energy inefficiencies or losses
• Measure and verify savings from energy conservation projects or performance contracts
• Reduce operational costs, improve processes, and prolong the life of energy assets
• Meet corporate environmental stewardship goals or mandated impact targets
• Manage demand control schemes, load shedding, peak shaving, base loading or on-site generation
• Enable participation in real-time pricing and load curtailment programs
• Optimize procurement by forecasting and budgeting for energy needs and comparing utility rates
• Identify utility billing errors and validate contract compliance
• Allocate and recover utilities costs from tenants, departments,
• processes, etc.
• Maximize the use of existing infrastructure capacity and avoid
• overbuilding
• Track, analyse, benchmark and reduce risks to reliability across an entire enterprise or service area
• Validate compliance with power quality clauses in customer contracts 

Energy Cost Analysis
Monitor and evaluate energy consumption and costs accurately, viewing the data in whatever format best suits your needs. Normalize energy usage data for variables such as weather and square footage. Use easy drill-down analysis functions to present increasing levels of detail. Process system data to prepare budgets for individual departments or processes, track budget projections with actuals, and use historical data to identify production, usage and cost trends.

Energy Cost Control
Implement a comprehensive demand control scheme, with automatic load shedding, peak shaving, base loading and on-site generation. Maximize ROI and simplify data collection by interfacing legacy systems with ION EEM. Reduce business risks with information and analyses that can be used to produce cost and risk reduction strategies. Create reports that can be distributed in paper, email or HTML format.

Sub-billing & Cost Allocation
Create accurate bills for specific departments or tenants, based on actual usage and distribute them via paper, email or web. Discover the true unit cost of production by allocating costs by process or production line, and combining usage data with information on the number of units produced.

Benchmarking, Baselining & Forecasting
Benchmark facility conditions and carry out comparisons between locations to identify best practices. Create baselines to track conditions within a single facility and compare it over time to measure the effectiveness of retrofits, conservation programs and upgrades. Use normalization routines to remove independent variables like temperature and square footages, which ensures that results from benchmarking and baselining are accurate. Model future results, then alter variables to gauge dependencies and see possible outcomes of different scenarios.

Energy Procurement & Bill Verification
Procure energy at the best possible rate by using utility tariff and usage data to compare options. Use a real-time pricing feed to monitor and calculate spot market prices. Ensure your supplier complies with contract terms and avoid penalty charges for utility-initiated events. Validate utility bills by running accurate shadow bills for comparison.

Real-time Monitoring
Determine the condition of all your energy assets in real time. Use instant data access to correlate ongoing activities with logged trends to help you better fulfil core needs. Configure schedule- or event-driven alerts on any combination of trends, events or costs to ensure quick and efficient response to any condition.

Power Quality Analysis
Conduct complex power quality analyses, including steady state, waveform and variation analyses. Utilize data reduction capabilities to classify PQ events, in order to group and/or link many scattered events to a single root cause. Identify the system impact of key power quality variables such as substation location, voltage level, geography, load, and many more. Easily pan, zoom and drill for additional event details. Benchmark power quality to industry standards, such as ITI (CBEMA) and SEMI F47, and improve productivity with electrical system analysis that enables you to diagnose and repair power system faults. Share data across your network with browser-base waveform analysis and produce automated power quality reports and distribute them via paper, email or web.

System Expansion Planning
Design the right power distribution system capacity to meet but not exceed the needs of a new facility, retrofit or expansion. Automatically generate load profiles to reveal hidden capacity and increase forecast accuracy. Increase efficiency by safely maximizing your electric network capacity while avoiding unnecessary expansion costs. Compare energy usage to equipment specs to determine whether maintenance or replacement is required before capital expenses are incurred.

Architecture

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