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Advanced Energy Management

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Understanding building energy consumption is the natural precursor for elevating a building to its optimal performance.  A documented process that includes consistent monitoring is essential. There are many challenges in getting started:

  • Varied metering capabilities to capture energy interval data
  • Inadequate  tools (like utility bills) to understand building energy performance
  • Lack of time and domain experience to analyze energy performance 

 

Let us tackle those challenges for you with SCItrack!

SCItrack solution

SCItrack is a cloud-based energy management solution that provides real-time actionable insights into building performance through benchmarking, automated monitoring and targeting, data visualization, and reporting.   Building operators and owners can leverage SCItrack to capture energy data across disparate metering technologies to visualize and demonstrate building and portfolio performance.  Customers often achieve up to 5% energy savings simply by gaining clarity into building performance and working hand-in-hand with dedicated energy analyst.

Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC) asked us to construct a commercial tower that would set new building development standards. We teamed with many vendors including SCIenergy to accomplish that goal at 18 York. SCIenergy's SCItrack solution provides a real-time look at the energy consumption in the building offering advanced energy management, which also means better experiences for the landlord and tenants. SCItrack has helped to optimize the building performance at 18 York.

SCItrack capabilities

SCItrack provides building owners and operators with the complete solution — from benchmarking to savings verification. Its flexible business intelligence platform enables clear, intuitive dashboards and both pre-built and ad-hoc reports. 

Baseline and Benchmark:  Provides a clear baseline of your building and portfolio through historical analysis, normalization (weather, occupancy, etc.) and multi-variable
regression.   Enables you to maintain a comprehensive perspective of building performance and comply with mandates through flexible benchmarking functionality—including ENERGY STAR®.

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Analyze and Target:  Analyzes energy performance at multiple levels—individual systems, whole buildings, and portfolios—through in-depth energy, KPI, and bill analysis features (load profiling, utility cost analysis, year-on-year comparison, etc.).  Measures energy projects with clear cost, energy reduction, or Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emission targets (per building, portfolio, region or other attributes).

Alert and Verify:  Utilizes flexible alerting mechanisms to manage demand thresholds, or anomalies in aggregate and/or load-level consumption.  Verifies energy savings in compliance with IPMVP (international performance measurement & verification protocol), enabled through real-time data capture from energy meters and regression analysis.

Report and Monitor:  Provides a variety of reports for different stakeholders, covering a range of activities from portfolio benchmarking to energy savings projects.  Pre-built and ad-hoc reports and dashboards enable visualization of building performance.

Experienced Energy Analysts:  Leverages advisory support from a dedicated team of experienced energy analysts.  With more than 30 years of experience improving building performance, the team’s sole purpose is to analyze SCItrack customers’ energy information and identify opportunities for cost savings.

SCItrack Technology & Support

SCItrack is a cloud-based software solution, offered via subscription for multiple user types. There is no software to download—everything is accessible through an intuitive web interface. Data sources include electricity, gas, and water, but can also incorporate any metered fuel type such as steam, compressed air, chilled water, and more. SCItrack-installed hardware utilizes state of the art NiagaraAX® Java Application Control Engine (JACE) gateways with open protocol communication device drivers.  SCItrack is available in multiple languages and currencies.

To take the first step in optimizing your building’s performance, contact us today.

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