Revenue meters
kWh, demand and power factor from Modbus meters.
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Energy & utilities
Meters, transformers and generators, with billing and maintenance as the action.
The plant
A plant or a utility already has meters. Industrial IoT reads them in engineering units, keeps generator kilowatt-hours apart from the grid, and turns a hot transformer or a long generator run into a maintenance job. No savings figure is published before the first measured month.
Where a first line usually starts
- Meter rounds are still a walk with a clipboard.
- A generator run is noticed when the fuel bowser arrives.
- Outage minutes are reconstructed after the fact.
Transformers
Temperature and load, so a hot transformer is a maintenance job.
Generators
Run hours, kWh and fuel, separated from grid supply.
Street and site power
Feeder status for a utility or a large estate.
From the sensor to the action
- 01
Sense
Multifunction meters, transformer temperature, generator run and fuel level.
- 02
Connect
The gateway polls Modbus RTU. A site router covers Modbus TCP meters on Ethernet and the LTE uplink. The vendor is chosen at the survey.
- 03
Platform
Each meter has its own token. The reading is stored against that site only.
- 04
Insight
Demand, consumption and intensity against the tariff the plant enters. The first measured month is the baseline.
- 05
ERP action
Outage and maintenance events are shaped into work orders and energy cost in FactoraERP. That exchange is commissioned with the implementation.