Energy Management System Helps Companies Go Green
A new energy and resource monitoring/control system enables small commercial and residential customers to easily view and reduce their energy consumption -- and thus their utility bills and carbon footprint -- in real-time. Controlled through a simple-to-install wireless touch panel or web interface, EcoViewTM helps users understand and track how they are consuming resources in their home or business with the touch of a button or click of a mouse, potentially saving up to 20% in energy costs.
How EcoView Commercial Works
EcoView Commercial monitors a location’s entire electrical load in real-time and extracts the majority of customer savings through the largest discretionary source of demand – the climate control (HVAC) system. Because it acts on the climate control system as a whole, customers can monitor and manage both electricity and natural gas consumption. With additional sensors for water consumption and virtually any other energy-consuming device, EcoView Commercial operates as an easily customizable, all-in-one tool for identifying sources of resource waste at any given time.
EcoView Commercial also removes the burden of local policing of a building’s climate control system, centralizing it within an online application that is managed by an account specialist at Advanced Telemetry’s Network Operations Center. Upon installation, the assigned account specialist institutes a set of customized climate-related best practices encompassing everything from setpoints to schedules to heating and cooling limits. The account specialist updates these items continuously throughout the year in an effort to maximize the customer’s savings.
A wall-mounted graphical touch panel -- the “brain” of the system -- receives consumption data in real-time from a metering device installed at the breaker panel where the electricity mains enter the building. This consumption data is relayed from the touch panel over a broadband connection to the account specialist, who can immediately identify and investigate anomalies in consumption. Often spikes in electricity usage are indicative of failures within climate control mechanicals that, if left unaddressed, can lead to increased expenses associated not only with consumption but also repair.
Customers can view real-time consumption data and thermostat-related settings across all of their locations from any web-enabled device via an online interface, analyzing temperature setpoints and settings, schedules, and electricity consumption; following trends; tracking changes; and identifying key culprits of energy drain. If so desired, customers can make adjustments to any of their settings independent of the account specialist, but local control of thermostats is limited to predefined limits, preventing on-site employees from increasing or lowering temperature settings beyond predetermined acceptable ranges.
EcoView Commercial includes the following:
- On-site “dashboard” touch panel for graphical viewing of real-time and historical resource consumption data
- Web-based interface for real-time usage reporting and remote thermostat control
- Centralized, remote control of thermostats including setpoints, schedules, and heating and cooling limits that eliminates suboptimal local control
- Innovative, automated “peak shaving” option designed to reduce consumption during peak demand periods
- Dedicated Advanced Telemetry account specialists charged with monitoring customers’ consumption for anomalies and continually updating thermostat settings for optimal performance and savings
- Automated email alerts.
The system is available for residential as well as business use, showing homeowners the benefits they are receiving courtesy of any alternative power generation they may have installed, such as solar panels or residential wind turbines. Central to Advanced Telemetry’s mission is technology that provides convenient and actionable resource consumption information to enable realistic eco-conscious change that anyone can implement.
“There clearly is a need to better understand how we use and unintentionally waste resources in business and at home. That’s why we set out to design technology that could simply, powerfully, and cost-effectively demonstrate, in real-time, how resources are consumed. We give users the ability to control their consumption while it’s happening,” said Gus Ezcurra, CEO of Advanced Telemetry.
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