Web-Based Software provides energy analytics.
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Fully-interactive, Multi-Site Manager captures data produced by building management systems or plant equipment and processes it into useful packages. It compiles and analyzes daily energy utilization data from all sites. Through 9 individual metrics reports, MSM enables facility managers to understand how energy is consumed at each monitored location. Users can view graphical representations of each category, and each report can be printed and saved.
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Novar Controls Introduces Multi-Site Manager
Web-based system produces actionable data of measurable value
Copley, Ohio - November 2003 - Novar Controls Corporation announced today the release of its Multi-Site Manager (MSM) system. The fully interactive, Web-based system captures data produced by building management systems or plant equipment and processes it into useful packages-generating the industry's most advanced energy analytics.
Today's building management systems and plant equipment produce an overwhelming amount of data, making the role of a facility manager increasingly difficult. Yet, economic conditions require that decisions must be based on this data, creating a demand for "actionable information" and the end to a seemingly useless stream of disconnected data.
Multi-Site Manager provides facility managers with this much-needed actionable information. The application analyzes the daily transfer of site energy utilization data from all sites and compiles it into an easy-to-use system. Facility management personnel can use the Web application to:
o Review site energy consumption vs. profile site on a daily basis.
o Rank each site by any of the nine metrics.
o Focus on sites requiring the most attention to produce improvements.
o Compare a site's daily consumption over time to measure savings from corrective actions.
o Extend their review over longer and longer periods.
The system conducts both background and metric-related analysis. Through nine individual metrics reports, MSM enables the user to understand how energy is consumed at each monitored site. The metrics include:
o Energy Usage (kWh/ksf): A square footage (in thousands) normalized value to total measured consumed energy (kWh) for a given day for a specific site. It allows the facility manager to compare sites across multiple dimensions.
o Peak Power (kW/ksf): A square footage normalized value of peak power (kW) measured for a given day at the same site.
o Occupied-to-Unoccupied Energy Usage Ratio: This unitless number creates a standard for comparison for energy usage during occupied hours versus unoccupied hours.
o Occupied Site-to-Profile Energy Usage Ratio: Compares the energy consumed during occupied hours for the monitored site with a site selected as the "profile" or control site.
o Unoccupied Site-to-Profile Energy Usage Ratio: Compares the energy consumed during unoccupied hours with the profile site.
o Number of Overrides: Tracks the number of system-schedule overrides that were manually initiated at the site during a given day. This includes both Hand-Off-Auto (HOA) and Timed Overrides (TO), which typically result in an energy overuse during the time engaged.
o Load Factor (%): Determines the site's total energy-to-peak power load factor, an industry-standard energy-use metric.
o Figure of Merit (-1 to +1): (FOM) Takes measure of how well the site's power demand correlates with that of its profile.
o Cost ($): Tracks the cost differential of operating a site relative to its profile site for a given period. The nonnormalized dollar value is adjusted to reflect the full square footage of the site.
User-interactive, each report can be printed and saved. In addition, users can choose to view graphical representations of each category. MSM is designed with easy navigation in mind, using simple drag-and-drop menus and is compatible with any normal Web browser tool set.
Beyond reviewing specific days, Multi-Site Manager can be used to track any of the metrics over time (weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly).
Novar Controls Corporation is an operating company within the Intelligent Building Systems (IBS) sector of Novar plc, a global business with sales of approximately $2.5 billion. Novar IBS supplies around $1 billion of products and services to building operators, contractors, developers, and consumers worldwide. Employing approximately 6,500 people and operating in more than
30 countries worldwide, it is one of the largest businesses in its field. Novar IBS provides a wide range of high quality, high technology solutions for fire detection and alarm, access control, security, energy management, and building controls, as well as leading solutions for electrical and data connectivity.
For more information or product literature, call 1.800.348.1235, e-mail info@novarcontrols.com or visit novarcontrols.com
