Accelerate your energy savings with fast, cost-effective data integration

It is common knowledge that you can’t reduce what you can’t measure. It is also common knowledge that most decision makers in industry don’t immediately see a return on investment by installing energy data management systems, despite abundant evidence of success from their business peers. The conundrum is that this requires a lot of time and resources and upfront costs to get the system going, and business commitment to make it work in the longer term.

In a previous article, we provided an overview of Building Energy Management Systems (BEMS) and Monitoring and Targeting (M&T) systems and discussed how these could potentially work together. In our upcoming webinar we go a step further and explore the opportunities of fast, cost-effective data integration so that you can make the most out of existing resources:

Put your existing systems to best use

BEMS are only one source of potentially rich information; among these sit utility meters, weather data, occupancy detectors and process sensors. Your utility providers and supply chain partner systems can be another untapped resource. Finally, traditionally “difficult” systems to deal with, such as SAP or SCADA can now be exploited to provide a holistic data solution.

Build a modular platform and decide when you want to expand

Building a flexible energy data management system is paramount. This gives you the opportunity to build the business case and foundations of the success initially and later expand in order to accelerate improvements.