Smart Energy Monitoring together with BI
You can hear it all around you: „We are going GREEN! “. Reduction of emissions and decarbonization is everyday topic in your company. The same for Deloitte – so our Business Intelligence and Energy teams have joined forces together and designed a solution that can also fit to you – Smart Energy Monitoring - which comes as extensions of classical energy management tool.
Continuous monitoring of energy flows and determination of potential for energy savings
Decarbonization, decentralization or digitization of energy sector are the main triggers to search for some savings in energy or emissions. Moreover, there is increasing pressure on Energy managers to keep track of energy consumption when setting up KPIs.
Our solution comes with a monitoring of energy flows – starting with data collection, data orchestration and transformation. But especially what is worth mentioning are features of predictions and Machine Learning (ML) models. This is a great way how to quickly reveal whether I will perform (in the position of a manager or any responsible person) according to the plan or whether there is a risk of exceeding the set KPIs.
To make it easier, we have developed the Energy monitoring tool that you can explore with us during the following Case study.
Case study: Is Energy Consumption in the norm (under the target) or there is a risk of KPI being exceeded?
How to track your Energy Consumption on an hourly basis? For different sectors or buildings of your company? And what to do next to reduce your consumption to get back on a track with the set target?
We have a solution for you represented by Energy monitoring. This monitoring tool is built by BI tool of your choice since we support tool-agnostic approach. In our case study, we used Tableau to develop an extensive dashboard especially for managers to get an overview about Energy Consumption in 3 areas (each supported by a separate page):
Our client wanted to track Energy Consumption in 3 categories → Heating, Air Conditioning, and Other. Moreover, our client needed to track the whole complex of buildings. As a result, each manager can drill down and filter different buildings or sectors.
The main added value of this landing page is to get a quick insight if there is any problem in terms of predicted energy consumption in comparison to planned consumption. If there is some risk, a manager is notified by alerting system (this notification could be set via SMS, email etc.).
After some initial check available on the first page of Energy Consumption, the manager can continue to dive deeply into more details on the second page – Peak Analyzer.
The Peak Analyzer page provides users with information on an hourly basis in an interactive consumption heatmap. To complement this detail, there is also an overview of present people at that time in the company. Moreover, users can filter some building or sector that they are interested in. Based on this filtering feature, all inputs are dynamically recalculated for chosen consumption category, time period, or building/sector. This filtering and a data granularity are based on your data and needs so this monitoring tool is fully customizable.
A carbon footprint or emission reduction are hot topics nowadays. So it is no surprise that our client asked us to monitor them by our Energy monitoring tool.
As on the previous dashboard, development of CO2 is tracked over time to see any peaks or detect any non-standard behavior. Users can filter for chosen category, building/sector, or time period to keep consistency across all pages.
Moreover, monitoring of energy consumption and carbon footprint can be supplemented by additional heatmaps or location notifications in case of requirements.
Main benefits of the Energy Monitoring:
- Automatic notifications and early alerts of any non-standard behavior (a manager can be notified via SMS, mail etc.);
- Automatic detection of potential of consumption savings thanks to automated peak analyzer engine;
- Dynamic evaluation of the building’s operation efficiency (the whole complex of buildings together with separate buildings, sectors/areas etc.);
- Setting and regular monitoring of KPIs/targets in the field of sustainability and energy efficiency.
