Power management solutions for buildings
The future is electric, and power digitalisation is getting us there. Retrofit your building with smart sensors and intelligent devices connected to EPMS software to lower costs, increase efficiency, and improve decision-making.
Transforming buildings from grey to green
Power management made simple
Commercial facilities, industrial, and public buildings consume over 60% of the world’s electricity and produce over half of all global carbon emissions. Power digitalisation transforms building operations and helps achieve a more sustainable future.
What is power management?
Reduce energy spend and accomplish energy sustainability goals:
• Understand how energy is consumed throughout the facility and proactively detect abnormal energy usage.
• Use energy normalisation tools to monitor energy in the context of production for energy intensity KPI tracking.
• Automatically generate energy performance, carbon reduction, and regulatory compliance reports.
Maximise power availability and electrical system performance:
• Install power metres to get real-time visibility of power flowing through the facility from mains to final distribution.
• Use relays and breakers to isolate faults, shed non-critical loads, and automatically transfer to alternate power sources.
• Track electrical capacity in all circuits to balance circuits, avoid overloads, and ensure sufficient backup power availability.
Minimise the impact of power disturbances and prevent equipment malfunction and damage:
• Power Quality Instruments (PQI) for accurate and reliable power quality monitoring and disturbance capture.
• Specialised diagnostic tools including disturbance direction detection, load loss detection, and incident timeline analysis.
• Power quality correction equipment including active harmonic filters and dynamic voltage restorers.
Avoid downtime, reduce maintenance costs, and extend the life of your equipment:
• Install sensors and smart devices with onboard diagnostics to enable predictive and condition-based maintenance.
• Proactively send alerts if a setting changes, a hot spot develops, or equipment components are wearing out.
• Partner with digital service providers for expert decision support and remote monitoring services.
Save money by reducing energy spend:
• Monitor facility energy use with revenue grade monitoring at service entrances.
• Compare utility bills with internally generated “shadow bills” and check for billing mistakes.
• Install capacitor banks to improve power factor, lower electricity bills, and avoid paying surcharges.
Connect seamlessly to your electrical assets for a communicating layer of energy intelligence across your data centre. Monitor and analyse your entire distribution infrastructure – from the service entrance to the rack – to help you meet your financial and operational goals. Learn more by viewing our online demo for EcoStruxure™ Power Operation.
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1. What is power management?
Power management enhances power availability and reliability and ensures the supply of good power quality in critical power systems and buildings. In addition, power management systems help ensure efficiency and safety and the compliant operation of your power distribution systems.
2. Why is a power management system necessary?
As the electrical systems gradually become more complex, there has been an escalation in the need for power management systems. With multiple types of power load, convoluted distributed power sources, and facilities becoming even more critical, electrical systems are constantly being transformed with advanced technologies. All these complexities and criticalities emphasise the need for comprehensive monitoring so that you can stay on top of real-time data across your power distribution system. Power management systems help avoid electrical shocks, prevent fires, improve uptime by helping avoid unplanned outages, and more.
3. Power management solutions by Schneider Electric
Schneider Electric offers technically advanced and efficient energy power management solutions supported by retrofit and power management services and software. As part of our retrofit solutions, we offer power digitisation which plays a fundamental role in efficient facility operations and active energy management. Using power management software and smart devices as well as retrofitting electrical systems improves energy efficiency and reduces risk, making it a great investment. Moreover, devices like PowerTag wireless energy sensors measure energy consumption and make the data available through communication protocols. The energy and power management software and solutions are designed to interrogate such devices throughout the local area network and collect power and energy information.
4. Power management software for today
Today's power management software plays an integral role in efficient power management based on real-time data. Schneider Electric solutions are based on robust and IoT-based platforms such as EcoStruxure Power Design, which supports electrical supply design and calculation, EcoStruxure Power Operation, EcoStruxure Power Monitoring Expert, and more.