Smart Energy
When it comes to Smart Energy and the savings in energy, WMW can be utilised for multiple use cases.
The Smart Energy vertical is often supported by an Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) that is comprised of two main components: Connectivity and a Head-End System.
Our platform be that centralized control unit or referred to as Head-End System (HES), and if you are a connectivity provider, together we can become an AMI. But also for Smart Industry use cases we are seen as the centralized system that serves as a communication hub between the smart meters/devices installed at various consumer locations (homes, businesses, etc.) and the utility company's data management or billing systems.
Communication management
2 way communication between the customer and the meter
Data
management
Collection, dataprocessing & storage of consumption data but also alerts, user data, patterns, ...
Device management
Remote management of the devices, confirguration, ...
Data preparation & reporting
For billing, demand preparation, load management, ...
Security & Integrations
Highly secured for attacks and hacking and available to do northbound injection into other systems
Interoperability
The DLMS standard promotes interoperability among various metering devices and systems from different manufacturers, enabling them to communicate effectively and ensuring that utilities can integrate different devices into their operations seamlessly. It is an open standard, which means that it is not proprietary and can be implemented by various manufacturers, fostering innovation and competition in the metering industry.
For LoRaWAN networks IETF have formulated SCHC (pronounced “chic”) as a standard to perform compresses the volume of data transmitted, resulting in a reduced time-over-air for devices making it suitable for LoRaWAN.
Smart meters
Where energy savings starts
Depending on the geo-economic situation pre-paid or post-paid meters are used to accurately log the energy consumed by industries and residents. Capturing that data live, and making sure the data is correct is about the most important use case in smart energy.
What you can achieve by doing so is a correct and fair billing practice, theft and unfair usage detection, grid management, improved customer relation, security improvement, ...
Key Benefits: optimised billing, savinds on driveby or manual inspection, halt unfair usage, predict outages or hazardous situations.
Smarter electrical panels
Inside a fusebox
From the building inlet, or just before an important section of your installation, to smart circuit breakers, these devices are used to detect multiple things about the building or section that you'd need insight on, such as:
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Active, reactive power
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Active, reactive energy
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Average or instantaneous power (analysis of change of consumption/maintenance regime).
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RMS voltages and currents
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Consumption
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The provided parameters obviously differ depending on the selected device.
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Cable clamps
an alternative
When smart meters are not available or you need more detailing in individual energy consumption, cables can be fitted with clamps to measure the current flowing through.
Typically used in more industrial situations but also for building management these clamps can outline the day to day operations of your equipment, providing you with a live insight of the consumption. Projects range from detecting operation times, voltage fluctuations, consumption, ...
Power outlets
Get granularity
When a single appliance is important to be monitored, Smart outlets provide granularity and the application usually is different as well. Smart home solutions, or Smart Offices (and shared office spaces) are a great candidate for these devices.
Another example, used in facility management, a single barista coffeemaker in a coffeeshop can be monitored in terms of energy consumption, but also operation times. The platform can even remotely shut off the power if, for example, it was not switched off at night.
Alerts can even be automated; if no motion is detected for more than x time, shall I turn off the machine?
AI and ML techniques are used to profile each and every device to validate its integrity
Dataquality
Saving on time, on errors, on implementation, on losses.
Taking all of this one step further; it is important to know, when you have a fleet of devices in the field, that the data coming from the devices can be trusted and is correct.
This add-on tool will help safeguard that:
Profile & Verify
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100+ checks to assess time series data health: from rule-based to AI based checks on data, metadata, and consistency (univariate and multivariate)
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Support for custom data (quality) checks, analysis and KPIs
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Data quality heatmaps and summaries
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Ability to filter and segment (downtime, product switches, etc.)
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Compare data quality in different data sources
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Streetlight power consumption
Even with LED, savings are enormous
The US Department of Energy suggests that lighting is responsible for 15% of global electricity consumption and 5% of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions. Lighting accounts for a large share of any city's energy costs and carbon emissions.
No need to explain that managing (and knowing) the energy consumption of these lights is pretty important. In our section about smart lighting you can find more reasons why they help in sustainability, but energy consumption is at least one of those reasons.
