Energy Monitoring and Management Software System

Analysis and reporting of energy data for EHS, facilities management and engineers. Make financial and process decisions to increase energy efficiency and reduce carbon.

Advisor Energy Monitoring Software User Interface

Introduction

ResourceKraft Advisor Energy Monitoring and Management Software System is an online subscription-based energy management and sustainability system. Advisor is used by large enterprise and industrial organisations serious about energy management, carbon reduction programs, ISO 50001 or IPMVP energy certification.

Advisor energy monitoring software is installed internationally in pharmaceutical manufacturing, aerospace, military, education, healthcare, steel and plastics manufacturing, building facilities management and food processing sectors.

Advisor Energy Monitoring Software gathers, processes and analyses energy data from meters and third-party systems and converts it into business information, enabling organisations to understand how and where energy is being consumed at any given time across all sites.

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Why is a Monitoring and Management Software System Essential?

If you can’t measure energy, you can’t manage it. Managers typically try to control energy costs by comparing utility bills. Utility bills contain two valuable pieces of information: Energy used and Costs incurred, but they leave out the Who, What, Where, When and Why of energy usage.

ResourceKraft Advisor is a cloud-based energy data analytics tool. Advisor energy monitoring software allows you to analyse energy data by organisation or site at 15-minute intervals in hourly, daily, weekly, monthly or yearly views. View all metered circuits in graphical or tabular format and with attractive charting with zoom features for detailed analysis.

Advisor energy management enables organisations to measure and manage energy and carbon. It allows organisations to generate reports, set targets, measure and validate savings, and drive management decisions to reduce energy costs and meet carbon commitments.

Advisor energy monitoring software saves staff time during the ISO 50001 compliance, management and certification process. Advisor energy monitoring and management software allows you to identify energy savings opportunities. Set baselines and create Energy Performance Indicators - EnPI / Key Performance Indicators KPI. Create targets types such as regression analysis and alert parameters for stakeholders to which to act. Advisor comes packed with energy management reports that drive energy savings programs. Advisor public display dashboards generate awareness at team and senior management level.

Identify, at a glance, the poorest performing parts of your organisation, enabling fast detection of issues. Compare and cost equipment efficiencies such as poorly calibrated motors and their effect on the speed and cost of production.

Go beyond monthly mains billing and break-down costs by circuit. Identify and alert out of hours consumption, equipment failure and breaches in operating procedure that can trigger expensive maximum-import-capacity charges on your electricity bill.

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How our energy monitoring & management system works

Advisor monitors electricity, water, gas, oil, Carbon, Heat and more.

The system monitors electricity, water, gas, oil, heat and steam via ResourceKraft and third-party meters. The system also supports environmental sensors such as temperature and humidity.

Smart meter data from an array of Industrial control systems (ICS), including BMS/BEMS, SCADA and AMR systems can also be logged.

Data can be imported into the system such as external KPI factors and our unmetered data & data can be manually or automatically exported.

Advisor energy monitoring and management software accesses the data over a secure connection, encrypted and authenticated.

Energy data is stored on cloud servers.

Advisor sends scheduled reports to stakeholders.

Advisor sends alerts of faults, anomalies improving efficiency and reducing downtime.

Data is transmitted to a server over a wireless cellular network securely via ResourceKraft Canary data logger.

10 Benefits of Energy Monitoring Systems

Real-time and historical energy consumption data.

Automatic monitoring 24/7/365, no manual meter readings.

Alerts of equipment failure, target breaches and out-of-hours consumption etc.

A portfolio of out-of-the-box automated smart energy reports in excel or pdf.

Energy analytics dashboard to measure and verify savings, report carbon GHG emissions and identify and diagnose inefficiencies.

Integrates as standard via Modbus or Pulse to any meters and sensors.

Acquires meter data from an array of Industrial Control Systems (ICS), including BMS, BEMS, SCADA and AMR systems.

Secure air-gapped cellular, anonymised data transmission, GDPR compliant, custom-locked IoT & upto 256-bit SSL.

Unlimited users and user access permissions controls.

Email, phone and on-line training support.

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Software Features

Energy Analysis

Identify, at a glance, the poorest performing parts of your organisation enabling fast detection of issues. This can be done through advanced visualisation tools such as energy maps, heat maps, cost maps, regression analysis and baseload analytics.

Public Dashboards

Generating staff engagement with energy management programs is the hardest challenge companies often have to tackle. Unlike a gushing tap wasted energy often goes unseen. Advisor energy monitoring dashboards put business unit performance in front of the team and provide live easy to understand color coded metrics for the team to monitor.

Automated Reports

Advisor comes as standard with a full suite of automated management reports. These reports can be selected and customised to be operational based – focused on kWh usage, financial based – focused on costs and cost savings or a mixture of both. Custom reports can be developed to match specific formats.

White Label Branding

Customise Advisor energy monitoring software with your own corporate branding and colours. Public display dashboards, reports and alert emails have more authority and engagement when branded in your own corporate identity.

CO2

Measure your carbon and compare against a previous period. Track your performance towards your net zero carbon goals. Report the carbon emissions details for your organisation on a per datasource basis.

Average Minimum and Maximum

Analyse your average minimum and maximum values on data sources for a selected date range. Plot baseload, average consumption and max consumption. Identify inefficient usage patterns across your chosen time-series.

Targets

Targets help you stay on track for your companyʼs goals. You can create different types of targets and view them under the data viewer chart. Fixed Targets are fixed values that are compared against total daily, weekly or monthly usage. Relative Targets are percentages of some time in the past that 'move' with the information (e.g. 'no more than 80% of this day last month'). Day Profile Targets are daily hour-by-hour patterns generated by an analysis of past data.

Alerts

Alerts can be set up to monitor different parts of your system and notify users and non-users via email and SMS that the alert has been triggered. Threshold Alerts monitor the instantaneous value of any datasource. When this value exceeds the specified threshold the alert is triggered. Zero Consumption Alerts allow you to monitor for zero usage on a circuit. These alerts can be useful for detecting when important loads fail or when circuit breakers trip.

KPIs

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are values used to track performances against business objectives. (e.g. electricity per units sold or electricity per occupants). KPIs measure the improvement or deterioration in the performance of an activity critical to the success of your business. KPIs empower management and operations teams with the information they need to make financial and process decisions to reduce costs and increase efficiency.

Bill Verification

Verify your utility bill kWh consumption by comparing it with metered data from Advisor energy monitoring and management software system and resolve billing overcharging from your utility supplier. Easily identify discrepancies, generate reports as evidence so you only pay for what you use.

Hardware Integration

ResourceKraft energy monitoring is hardware agnostic, and integrates as standard via Modbus or Pulse to energy meters and sensors - electricity, water, oil, gas, heat, temperature, humidity, etc.

Testimonials

ResourceKraft measurement of electricity, fuel oil, gas and water provides empirical data. Knowledge has given us the ability to speak with authority to internal stakeholders and confirm CRC carbon tax liabilities.
Group Facilities & Energy Manager, Bank of Ireland

The ResourceKraft system is so effective that we expect to use the technology in our sister plants, in Europe, over the coming months.
EHS Manager, Ingersoll Rand Climate Control Technologies

Previously we were unaware of our breaches in our Maximum Import Capacity KVA level until we received the utility bill and discovered the penalties applied by our supplier of course it was too late to react then.
MAINTENANCE MANAGER, ATHLONE EXTRUSIONS

Once we began to use the information from ResourceKraft Advisor, we saw a 20% reduction in electricity usage in 12 months. A year later John Crane Ireland became the first site in Smiths Group plc to achieve ISO 50001, and four years on we’re still seeing incremental cost improvements.
EHS MANAGER, JOHN CRANE

Industries

The pharmaceutical manufacturing industry is one of extreme process precision. Costs in manufacturing and any opportunities for savings provide a competitive advantage and make a manufacturing facility more sustainable, variable for further long-term investment. Large amounts of energy are required to keep equipment and facilities clean and ventilated. Over 60% of water is used in cleaning, and water needs to be purified and heated into steam for sterilisation.

Whilst consideration is now being put into ‘how do we manufacture’ and how much - the quality of the product can not be jeopardised for the energy efficiency gains. Advisor energy monitoring and management software can identify opportunities to reduce, recover and report on energy and CO² production. With Advisor, you can measure and manage the energy efficiency of motors, cooling towers, lighting, steam production and fans. Datasources can be modelled around your business units and KPIs. Inefficient motors, out-of-hours consumption, heat loss and breaches of procedure can be alerted. Advisor dashboards, reports and alerts support energy management programs and engagement.

Advisor energy monitoring software provides real-time energy analysis. Its open standards architecture integrate with a wide range of Modbus or Pulse to any meters and sensors. Work with up to date energy data and ensure that equipment malfunctions are caught on time, and the team is adhering to energy-saving equipment processes.

Advisor provides KPI, Usage, Carbon CO² Emissions energy reports. Its data loggers integrate with an array of Industrial Control Systems (ICS), including BMS, BEMS, SCADA and AMR systems. Integration makes data collection more complete and compliance with energy management systems easier.

Hospitals and healthcare facilities are energy-intensive buildings that run year-round, 24 hours a day. The main utility costs at hospitals are often electricity, gas and water. Many hospitals and healthcare facilities have committed to net-zero carbon CO² emissions reduction targets.

Advisor energy monitoring and management software systems is a crucial tool in identifying opportunities for reducing energy consumption. Advisor can measure inefficiency and cost savings from instituting an energy conservation measure and quantify the savings from the baseline period.

Advisor SMS and email alerts ensure that stakeholders are following energy management policies. Reports and dashboards are beneficial when motivating teams on performance and keeping energy conservation tangible.

Thomond Park selected ResourceKraft Energy Management Software Solution as its standard platform. The solution would allow the park to meet its goals by implementing three ‘smart meters’ in the east and west stands. The web-based energy management cost-control system gathers, processes and analyses energy data from the meters and converts it into business information. Thomond Park can now understand how and where energy consumption occurs across all sites at any given time.

Thomond Park can incorporate key performance indicators, set targets, generate reports and involve management and staff in making informed energy-management decisions in the drive to further reduce energy costs and meet carbon commitments.

ResourceKraft has worked with Bank of Ireland for over ten years, supporting them to achieve the ISO 50001 standard for energy management. ISO 50001 is a continuous improvement initiative aimed at understanding where energy is used within an organisation’s operations and whether it’s appropriate. By ensuring that air conditioning only runs during business hours and isn’t left running through the night.

Bank of Ireland now has years’ historical data, which they monitor across 330 sites remotely and can identify issues very quickly. For example, they have achieved cost savings from old halogen lamps with LEDs or replacing a heating system. By analysing costs per cubic metre, they can identify high energy users on a like-by-like basis.