Schneider Electric Makes Small Work of Large Scale Data Interpretation with PME

With more and more devices incorporating integrated metering, Schneider Electric has launched Power Monitoring Expert (PME) which allows users to collect and interpret their electrical data in one central place.

Completely unique, the PME, as part of the StruxureWareTM software, combines all of the inherently independent mechanisms of metering, monitoring and simple control with a straight forward user defined interface to create one true solution. This scalable technology has been designed for medium-sized buildings, such as retailers, health centres and small offices, through to large enterprises and multi sites.

Working as a web-based platform, PME software collects and organises data gathered from the facility's electrical network and presents it as meaningful, actionable information via an intuitive web interface.

PME retrieves data from meters, breakers, drives, Acti 9 solutions and relays to monitor energy consumption. The software then allocates costs to departments or processes and can calculate the cost of energy such as water, air, gas, electricity and steam, based on tiered rates, TOU, demands charges and taxes. It can even produce accurate tenants' energy bills, identifying billing discrepancies.

The result is that users are able to see, measure and manage energy and power data across an entire enterprise in order to identify areas for improvement and verify the effective impact of energy measures. Users can also use the data to perform comparative calculations and show trends to identify further savings areas, whilst also enabling effective fulfilment of mandatory carbon reporting.

Furthermore, PME can be used to monitor power availability and reliability of the system, sending an alarm remotely to the personnel's mobile to alert him/her of a power interruption.

Zina Shair, Power Solutions Manager at Schneider Electric comments , As the government pushes towards its commitment to reducing carbon emissions by 50% before 2025 and reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80% before 2050, businesses of all sizes are feeling the pressure to cut down their energy and carbon emissions.

The result has been an insurgence of new technologies arriving on the market which integrate metering but this(?) can make it difficult to gain a clear insight into a building's complete power and data usage.

With this in mind, we have placed significant investment in developing the PME to simplify the process; enabling businesses to deal with the issue of big data so that they can pull data from their control systems, organise it into relevant information for each function and, more importantly, create actionable insight to make better, informed decisions and improve efficiencies.

Schneider Electric has developed specific versions of the PME for market segments including datacentres and healthcare, to reduce the cost of implementation and facilitate a more targeted approach to efficiency for customers within a specific segment.

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