Overview
The powermanager extension, combined with power meters and low voltage protective devices, provides a complete energy management solution. It allows you to measure, process, analyze, store and share energy usage and status information across your entire enterprise. The powermanager extension offers control capabilities covering your entire energy usage along with detailed reporting that will help you reduce energy-related costs. Additionally, it also allows you to manage all your intelligent devices and analyze the data, allowing you to identify hidden potentials for energy optimization and overall savings.
The energy data acquisition can take place without any complicated configuration efforts and the most important measured values or states are indicated with predefined screens. This reduces expenditure and ensures that the device functions are optimally supported in the software during startup.
Below are the most important features and benefits of powermanager. The powermanager extension lets you:
- Track energy-related costs by building, feeder, or individual machine. Match virtually any billing structure and use comprehensive multi-year scheduling and time-of-use activity profiles to report and document the energy savings.
- Trend power usage data to take full advantage of your electrical distribution system capacity and avoid over-design or unnecessary expansion. Create usage profiles so that you can distribute loads and avoid demand peaks.
- Meter all your utilities including gas, steam, air, and water. Set up alarms for pending problems and predictive alarming of impending or imminent conditions.
- Utilize the comprehensive reports, variable trend tool and customized graphics to analyze energy consumption to identify potential areas for energy and cost savings.
- Monitor and analyze energy usage from anywhere with direct Web access to any screen.
The advantages of using powermanager include:
- Startup costs involve minimum expenditure
- Increase of energy efficiency
- Visibility and control of power flows
- Exact knowledge of the consumption profile
- Compliance with contractual terms or regulations
- Allocation of costs to individual cost centers
- Identification of critical systems conditions
- Optimization of power supply contracts
- Optimization of plant maintenance
