Keep track of your factory's energy consumption, gas use, and water needs
Are you looking for easy combined gas, water, and energy monitoring? A way to make your factory more sustainable while also reducing your electricity usage and slashing your water and gas bills? Then you might be looking for a combined energy consumption monitoring system that collects live data.
Keeping track of your company's energy consumption is the key to controlling and optimising your processes for maximum profits and sustainability. In this blog, we'll have a look at the different systems to track gas and electricity usage, as well as a water consumption monitoring system.
Stop wasting resources
Without water, gas, and electricity many a factory can't function. However, there's still a lot to be won when it comes to reducing water spillage, energy waste, and inefficient gas use. An energy monitoring system that provides you with live data collected in your own factory helps you discover and analyse consumption patterns. After all, it's only when you understand how your machines are using electricity, water, and gas, that you can make informed decisions concerning effective energy management.
Make your company more sustainable
Making your factory more sustainable is no longer a luxury option. More and more laws make sustainability regulations compulsory. A monitoring system has therefore become necessary to reduce electricity consumption, track water consumption, and reduce gas consumption.
During the Paris Agreement of 12 December 2015, member states agreed to limit global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and emissions need to be reduced by 45% by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050. To achieve this ambitious goal the whole world has to work together to make their industries as sustainable as possible, leaving a better, cleaner world, and reducing their carbon footprint.
One way to reach this is to reduce energy consumption and thereby limit carbon emissions as much as possible. However, you cannot just use less electricity or gas, you will have to study the industrial processes in your factory to understand how to make them more efficient. A power consumption meter or energy consumption monitoring system for example can help you understand what machine uses what amount of power and whether this can be reduced.
As an added bonus, your company will benefit from reduced energy bills not only by saving money but also by improving its public image.
Save money
As aforementioned, tracking energy usage helps save the planet and stops you from wasting your money.
Identify your faulty equipment and stop flushing money down the drain
Often, we don't realise how much electricity equipment wastes when a machine part ends up being faulty. A good way to discover faulty equipment is by using an electricity usage monitor.
Energy monitoring software
An energy monitoring device is nothing without the right tools to analyse your gathered data. This is why it's recommended to use reliable data analysis software like Enprove's Enelyzer.
Enelyzer is a proven Energy Management System built for industry and large volumes of data management cross sites and cross devices:
- Gather real-time data from energy sources like electricity, gas, water, air quality and company operational data
- Gain strategic insights on energy efficiency & carbon footprint
- Generate impact by identifying the most impactful actions to improve your energy & environmental KPI's and automatically calculate year on year savings in energy and carbon emissions.
With out-of-the-box integration with any meter, submeter, or logging device, Enelyzer provides comprehensive measurement capabilities, from the business level down to individual production lines. This granular data enables benchmarking within a company and, as the Enelyzer community grows, facilitates anonymous benchmarking across different organisations. The result is easy implementation and rapid realisation of cost savings.
This flexibility & compatibility results in improved energy efficiency, cost-effectiveness and readiness for your mandatory regulatory reporting.
Remote monitoring for live data
At Crodeon we developed an IoT sensor module that allows for effortless automatic data collection and remote monitoring: Reporter. This plug & play sensor device reads up to four (different) sensors at a time like an energy meter, for example. This makes Reporter an accessible option to get started with your own energy monitoring project.
Collect real-time data
Reporter allows for real-time data logging and monitoring for any sensor that gets connected to the sensor module. This data is then streamed to our cloud (Crodeon Dashboard) using the cellular data network.
Easy API access
Our Crodeon Dashboard comes with API access that allows you to easily integrate your measurement data into a third-party application such as Enelyzer.
Make your own sensor kit
Reporter is incredibly versatile as the sensor device can read up to four different sensors at the same time. This allows you to pick & mix any compatible sensors to assemble your own personalised monitoring kit.
Energy consumption monitoring system
When you connect an electric usage meter to Reporter, you're effortlessly building your own energy monitoring system. You can use direct and indirect energy meters to measure electricity usage in your industrial setting.
Water consumption monitoring system
Similar to the power usage meter, you can use Reporter to build the perfect kit for water consumption monitoring. You can connect a variety of sensors that measure and monitor, pressure, flow, and level, or that can even detect leaks. This combined measuring data can give you better insights into your factory's water consumption and help save water and avoid costly repairs as you'll receive live data when something is amiss.
To build your own personalised kit to reduce water consumption we recommend using the following sensors: water quality sensor, submersible level sensor, pressure sensor, flow meter, and a leak detection sensor.
Gas consumption monitoring system
Another valuable resource to keep track of is gas. Gas usage monitoring devices like Reporter will both track gas consumption as well as give warnings about your system when something is wrong. To monitor your gas pipelines we advise using a pressure sensor.
Make your factory smarter
As you've been able to read in this blog, Reporter is an accessible IoT plug & play monitoring system that can easily be connected to third-party software like Enelyzer. It helps to get a better understanding of your company's gas and energy use as well as water consumption. Don't hesitate to contact us or contact Enprove if you still have any questions.
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