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Know Energy Performance Data to Boost Efficiency

European businesses are committed to adhering to European Union (EU) building performance regulations to meet recent greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards before or by 2030 and achieving zero-emission and fully decarbonised buildings by 2050.

This is a significant commitment, considering that according to the EU’s European Commission:

• Buildings account for 40% of EU energy consumption and 36% of energy-related GHG emissions.
• About one-third of all EU buildings are over 50 years old.
• Nearly 75% of the building stock is not energy efficient, with only about 1% undergoing renovation yearly.

As EU regulations governing building performance and efficiency evolve, building contractors, owners, and facilities managers must keep up to meet building modernization and efficiency directives. Collecting baseline energy consumption and performance data is one of the best ways to start on the path to better energy efficiency.

Data from wireless sensors connecting facilities, equipment, and conditions to the Internet of Things (IoT) can help everyone, from facilities managers to building owners, know energy consumption and performance data. With Monnit Energy Monitoring Solutions, you can:

• Set up a Monnit Wireless IoT Sensor Network in new and older buildings within 15 minutes.
• Monitor and log progress and adherence to energy performance standards.
• Get real-time alerts and condition trending data.
• Gain insights into the importance of data analytics and benchmarking that drive informed decision-making for energy sustainability initiatives.

Monnit ALTA^® Long-Range, Low-Power Wireless Sensors are easy to configure and run on the 433 and 868 MHz radio frequencies. You don’t need IT experience to use an app and view it on your mobile device, laptop, or desktop PC.

Tech News

How TIMEPAC’s Approach Can Help

Some EU building owners and groups are working to reform Europe’s energy performance certificates (EPCs). They want information about building owners’ energy-saving measures, retrofitting improvements, and renovating achievements in old and inefficient buildings to be included with EPC energy demand and consumption data.

An EU-funded consortium—Towards Innovative Methods for Energy Performance Assessment and Certification (TIMEPAC)—is designing a framework to modernise Europe’s building performance certificate process for the EU’s 27 member states. The goal is for TIMEPAC to switch the EU’s EPC system from a static certification to a dynamic process.

TIMEPAC is:

• Reworking the EPC dataflows to include generation, storage, sustainability, readiness for smart technologies, and other factors across a building’s lifecycle.
• Testing in six EU nations by developing an online platform with training materials for target users, such as certification professionals, architects, building managers and owners, tenants, and other stakeholders.
• Estimating that improved EPCs will enable 6.5 square meters of additional renovation per year in the six pilot countries, yielding an average of 85 kilowatt-hours per square meter of primary energy savings.
• Collecting and synthesising data to inform the EU’s revised Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD).
• Establishing minimum performance levels and new tools to incentivise upgrades.
• Drawing data from building information modeling (BIM) records, technical building inspections, building materials, and operation data.
• Assessing buildings for sustainability-focused readiness upgrades and accommodation of smart devices.

Monnit can help you monitor your entire building with smart technologies. You’ll have the data to make better-informed decisions to track and improve energy use, efficiency, sustainability, and other essentials like water intrusion, gas detection, access and occupancy, and HVAC system performance.

Use Case

The Increasing Impact of the IoT on Facilities Management

The IoT can help transform facilities management into an automated, optimised practice to benefit tenants, managers, and owners. The list of benefits continues to expand, including:

• Streamline operational processes
• Better inform decision-making
• Increase occupant comfort and productivity
• Optimise energy consumption
• Predict HVAC and facility maintenance
• Improve occupant safety and security
• Provide smart scheduling management
• Meet energy efficiency regulations

Overall, the IoT enables more efficient facilities and resources. Optimised HVAC systems, for example, can equal energy and cost savings. An IoT network of HVAC sensors connected to ducts, fan motors, AC units, and smart thermostats can help with predictive maintenance, diagnostics, and energy-saving operations.

With these IoT devices, buildings are upgraded to smart buildings, optimised to provide data about indoor climate conditions and HVAC performance 24/7. Even as regulations change, the HVAC systems you manage and upgrade can stay ready to work efficiently and predictably using data from our ALTA Duct Temperature Sensor, AC Current and Vibration Meters, Air Velocity, Differential Air Pressure, and Air Quality Sensors.

Learn how facilities managers (FMs) can monitor power, plumbing, occupancy, HVAC systems, and more with predictive analytics using real-time data and alerts from fast-install IoT sensors.

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Sensor Spotlight

Monitor Power Hungry Machines and Facilities

Electrical grids use three phases of alternating current (AC) to transmit and distribute more power more efficiently. Other benefits of three-phase systems include increased reliability, easier load balancing, and optimised capacity.

Commercial and industrial facilities, systems, and machines typically require a steady stream of three-phase electrical connectivity. Many machines and systems only need single-phase electrical power.

Monitoring is a necessity in the era of energy conservation while balancing ever-increasing demand and production. This is the purpose of our high-accuracy ALTA Industrial Wireless Single-Phase and Three-Phase Current Metres. With these versatile sensors, we want to help you track power actuation and consumption so you can:

• Optimise power use.
• Conserve energy.
• Predict maintenance.
• Manage machine lifecycles.

We offer the ALTA Single-Phase Current Metre so you can remotely monitor three levels of AC amperage. Our ALTA Wireless 20, 150, and 500 Amp Current Metres measure:

• Minimum, maximum, and average in Amp-RMS (root mean square)
• Current accumulation in Amp-hours and kilowatt-hours

They monitor using a current transformer that clips around the wires of any device or machine, such as servers, computers, industrial equipment, vending machines, etc.

The ALTA Three-Phase Current Metre is available in three versions—20, 150, and 500 Amp—to satisfy your various building system and machine power monitoring needs. Our three Three-Phase Current Metres use a lead with three current transformers that clip around wires to measure the gamut of commercial and industrial power applications.

For example, you can connect the metres to:

• The main circuit breaker panel to monitor overall power load and usage.
• Production machines to predict maintenance and analyse a lifecycle management program.
• An HVAC system to track and compare power use and performance with occupancy.
• Monitor the power draw patterns of multiple machines like air compressors or conveyor motors.
• Manage the energy efficiency of server racks or a series of factory machines to control demand, monitor thresholds, and optimise use.

Ensure you have the data you need to reap the benefits of smoother, more constant, and efficient three-phase power in your commercial and industrial operations.

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