In today’s society, energy has become an indispensable factor in human society. With the economic development and the improvement of people’s living standards, China’s energy consumption and carbon emissions are also rising, economic, convenient and environmentally friendly energy has become an urgent need for human survival and sustainable development. At the same time, for enterprises, all kinds of water, electricity, gas equipment and classified energy consumption is one of the main components of industrial facilities, all kinds of construction investment and daily operating costs, reasonable layout of energy facilities, efficient management and control can improve the efficiency of facilities and energy utilization and greatly reduce costs.

As an important means of energy saving, emission reduction and cost reduction, energy management is of great significance to the sustainable operation of enterprises. However, traditional energy management cannot meet the increasingly refined demand for energy management in today’s society. Relying on human inspection leads to high cost, data cannot be visualized, management efficiency is reduced, and problems are lagging behind. In response to these problems, Advantech intelligent energy management system ECOWatch provides enterprises with low-cost, low-code, high-quality energy management platform, effectively reduce labor costs, realize the visualization of energy flow and use, and help enterprises improve energy efficiency and improve energy efficiency.

Advantech Energy management application ECOWatch aims to save energy and reduce carbon and low-carbon environmental protection, and combines the Internet of Things, big data, cloud computing, AI artificial intelligence, edge computing, intelligent gateway, etc., to provide enterprises with a set of fully quantified energy management solutions.

ECOWatch complies with ISO50001 energy management standards. By monitoring, statistical comparison, demand and allocation management of enterprise energy consumption such as water, electricity and gas, EcoWatch improves target energy efficiency and achieves energy saving and emission reduction. Its energy consumption analysis function helps enterprises to grasp the energy consumption situation of enterprises from multiple perspectives and accurately locate energy consumption anomalies. The peak-Ping-valley analysis can improve the comprehensive power management level and reduce the cost of electricity through the information display of power load. The automatic meter reading function eases the labor intensity of meter reading personnel and reduces the meter reading error caused by human factors. It can be used in smart parks, smart factories, smart campuses, smart hospitals and smart retail fields.

(Figure: Advantech Energy Management visual interface example)

Advantages of Advantech Energy management applications

Advantech Energy management applications have many values in closed-loop management, multidimensional energy efficiency analysis, energy anomaly tracing, energy saving and consumption reduction. Several major advantages are reflected in the following points —

1. Closed-loop management

Make the “measure-monitoring-benchmarking – analysis-evaluation” of each node in the energy management process complete and clear visualization;

2. Multidimensional energy efficiency analysis

Provide multidimensional energy use analysis such as energy saving, energy cost, energy use trend, demand, etc., such as assisting managers to achieve global operation management;

3. Energy anomaly tracing

Grasp the running status and energy use of energy consuming equipment in real time, find out the root cause of the problem, and provide optimization programs.

4, energy saving and consumption reduction to create value

Optimize energy efficiency, improve energy maintenance and quick response to energy consumption time, and reduce energy costs.

Through the comparison of energy use benefits by ECOWatch application, it can be found that ECOWatch can reasonably save costs, discover energy consumption problems, improve energy use benefits, and enable parks, factories, hospitals, retail stores, hospitals, etc., to achieve rational utilization of energy.