W.A.G.E.S. (Water Air Gas Electricity Steam) Management cost efficient customized solution for small industrial or tertiary buildings

Value proposition

Main Drivers

• To master overall energy flows throughout buildin
• To identify energy saving opportunities
• To comply with Energy Regulations

Solution in brief
Solution is based upon iRIO RTU (Remote Terminal Unit), featuring:

• Metering data acquisition through various means:
  - Power meters: pulsing contacts, Modbus Serial Line communication protocol
  - Flow meters (Water, Gas, Heat, ...): Pulsing contacts, Modbus Serial Line communication protocol, M-Bus specialist metering communication open protocol
• Energy data processing:
  - Database generation
  - Dashboards, curves, reports
• Data server, proactively used by users who connect when they need information
• Automatic report generator, emailing data and text files
• Alarm generator,onexceededmax threshold, power fault, abnormal consumption cycles
• Load controller , for load shedding, automatic shut down, override limitation, ...
• User connection through different modes:
  - Pro-active connection by Internet browser for quick check
  - Pro-active connection for data file download, to enableoff line later data analysis
  - Automatic alarm receipt 
  - Periodic data file or automatic report receipt

 
Value proposition

• 10% energy consumption reduction thanks to usage analysis
• Improved savings in case of additional controls implementation:

   - Power Operation & Maintenance: improved efficiency thanks to Power Monitoring
   - Utility subscription: power subscription & penalties reduction thanks to load shedding
   - Energy consumption: energy consumption reduction thanks to load scheduling, conditions, ...

• Full W.A.G.E.S. scope mastered: Water (compressed) Air Gas Electricity Steam
• Reliable and available information thanks toindustrial RTU (Remote Terminal Unit) technology
• Cost efficient solution:
  - Cheapest metering technology: pulses
  - Minimum starter configuration: to be scaled-up according to additional metering channel
  - No need for supervision: iRIO embedded web server operated from any local or remote web browser 
  - Limited application development labour: iRIO pre-developed software modules (data files/curves/reports generation)
• Fully customizable data processing, user interfaces, reports and controls

 
Proofs
Energy usage analysis is known by energy service provider specialists to enable 5-15% savings by identifying:

• Abnormal consumptions due to:
  - Flow leakages
  - Overrides
  - Unconvenient controls
  - Forgotten shutdowns
• Consumption deviations

Design, installation and maintenance benefits

• Compatibilitywith existing meters, or End-User preferredones, thanks todifferentmetering data acquisition capabilities (pulses, Modbus SL, M-Bus)
• Implementation ofcontrol functions if and when required, thanks to powerful customization capabilities
• Reducedon-site presence thanks to remote alarm and operation
• Maximum cost effectiveness thanks to huge scalability:

    - Reduced to minimum first implementation:
         ¤ only a few metering channels
         ¤ pulsing contacts metering data acquisition is quite limited cost
    - Additional metering channels implementation if demonstrated profitability
    - Additional control implementation when opportunity for energy savings is demonstrated

Differentiation factors

• iRIO pre-developed application software modules strongly reduce System Integrator development labour
• No need for dedicating a workstation to W.A.G.E.S. management, as any Web browser can download energy data files
• Compact NSX built-in power meter enables switchboard instrumentation without additional cabling

Solution architecture

Main Energy Efficiency characteristics

• According to expected information and implementation cost, incomer power can be metered through:
  

   - Utility digital interfaces (sync & active metering pulses, tariff period & peak hours indicators)
   - Communicating circuit breaker (Compact NSX) or power meter (PM9C, PM200, PM700, PM 800)
   - 3 phases power meters featuring pulsing contact (ME, PM9P)

• According to expected information and implementation cost, loads can be metered through:

   - Communicating circuit breaker (Compact NSX) or power meter (PM9C, PM200, PM700, PM 800)
   - 3 phases power meters featuring pulsing contact (ME, PM9P), ...

Please refer to "Guideline for solution implementation" document in download & useful links to get deeper in details