Quasar Control Industrial (QCI) is a powerful, highly flexible "Control Engine" providing intelligent load control. QCI puts you in control of your company's energy use and provides you with an intuitive and easy to use interface backed by industry leading functionality.
QCI can save your business money on your electricity spend without compromising your process requirements. It is energy management software that is powerful enough to meet the needs of a nationwide business, whilst being agile enough to be used by a single site business, that doesn’t have dedicated energy management resources.
Controlling loads can be highly beneficial where supply capacity is constrained, or where ‘demand’ charges are proving costly. Significant benefits can also be achieved through delaying the need for capital expenditure in capacity upgrades.
QCI can save your business money on your electricity spend without compromising your process requirements. It is energy management software that is powerful enough to meet the needs of a nationwide business, whilst being agile enough to be used by a single site business, that doesn’t have dedicated energy management resources.
Controlling loads can be highly beneficial where supply capacity is constrained, or where ‘demand’ charges are proving costly. Significant benefits can also be achieved through delaying the need for capital expenditure in capacity upgrades.
How QCI Works
QCI can control refrigeration, heating, air conditioning & water pumping systems and has application in any industry where devices can be turned off for periods of time. QCI can automatically shed selected loads to avoid high tariff periods, restores load in low tariff periods and caps demand to minimise peak demand charges.
QCI is stand-alone or can integrate with your existing systems, and provides a signal when conditions are right to turn load off to save energy or restore the load to meet process needs. The system uses configurable rules (algorithms) to switch loads. Rules are set-up at the time of commissioning and can be left to operate automatically or modified as often as needed.
QCI will not compromise your process quality, as you set limits to ensure that process variables such as pressure and temperature are never breached.
QCI is stand-alone or can integrate with your existing systems, and provides a signal when conditions are right to turn load off to save energy or restore the load to meet process needs. The system uses configurable rules (algorithms) to switch loads. Rules are set-up at the time of commissioning and can be left to operate automatically or modified as often as needed.
QCI will not compromise your process quality, as you set limits to ensure that process variables such as pressure and temperature are never breached.
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Features and Benefits
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Dashboards
The dashboards have been designed to be user friendly and easy to navigate, and are completely configurable and enable quick access to all parts of the software. When not logged on, the dashboards will automatically display as a slideshow.
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Reporting
The reporting tool provides a range of scheduled and ad-hoc reporting that is easily tailored to suit the site requirements. These reports can be viewed, saved or emailed automatically as required. The Reporting Package Compiler can pull together all the reports you want, along with external documents into a user defined format that enables ease of reporting. All of the reports and data are easily exported.
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Security
QCI has password protection using military grade encryption to ensure your plant is protected.
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Data Recording
This feature allows for the integration and recording of any external inputs into the system for reporting purposes. This could be in the form of weather inputs from an onsite weather station.
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Energy Pricing
Energy Pricing allows you to setup your pricing schedule as provided by your energy provider. This allows for fixed pricing schedules including the ability to manage pricing by business day, configurable time periods, i.e. 4 hour periods, holiday exclusions and any other variation your energy provider uses.
In addition, you can subscribe to the New Zealand WITS Electricity Market feed to use the latest market pricing information. |
Data Interface
The Data Interface feature allows a mapping to be configured such that Quasar Control will behave as a slave device to another system. This might be used, for instance to accept a target from another system. It also allows the health, status and measurements from Quasar Control to be shared with 3rd party systems such as SCADA.
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Energy Target Modeller
The Energy Target Modeller forms the basis for energy saving calculations, decisions and load shed or unshed actions. The model consists of 48 30-minute energy targets for each day of the week. During each 30-minute interval, QCI will assess and forecast the energy consumed for the interval and according to filters and rules, control the loads as required. The modeller enables you to set up different models, for example you can have models set for different electricity pricing plans, or for each season.
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RulesThe software utilises an Industrial Rules Library, which gives you the ability to apply any combination of targeted or logical decision rules. This ensures that you can configure the rules so they are ‘smart’ and react accordingly to the logic and targets set, and can be set to include historical data and external inputs. Rules can be set at a device group or parent group level.
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QCI is Available at Three Levels
QCI-10 |
QCI-20 |
QCI-50 |
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Control Points |
10 |
20 |
50 |
Input Points |
30 |
60 |
Unlimited |
Control Groups |
3 |
5 |
Unlimited |
Parent Groups |
2 |
Unlimited |
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Active Rules |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Industrial Rules Library |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Communication – Modbus TCP/RTU |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Communication – Allen Bradley (Serial/Ethernet) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Communication – OPC Client |
Optional |
Optional |
Optional |
Communication – DNP 3.0 |
Optional |
Optional |
Optional |
Communication – EM6 Live Web Service |
Optional |
Optional |
Optional |
NZ Market Import – Pricing (WITS) |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
NZ Market Import – Demand (WITS) |
Optional |
Optional |
Optional |
Reporting & Report Schedular |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Report Compiler |
Yes |
Yes |
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Data Interface – DNP 3.0 Protocol (1 external system) |
Optional |
Optional |
Optional |
Data Interface – Modbus Protocol (1 external system) |
Optional |
Optional |
Optional |
Let's Talk
We'd love to learn more about your business and discuss how Quasar Control can help you.
Fill in the form below and we'll be in touch within one business day. You can also contact us at +64 3 343 9150 or sales@quasar.co.nz.
Fill in the form below and we'll be in touch within one business day. You can also contact us at +64 3 343 9150 or sales@quasar.co.nz.