As the world moves progressively towards a greener environment, energy conservation has become a major buzzword in the industry today. In today’s inter-connected world, the internet has served as a boon and revolutionized almost every sphere of business. That happens to be the case with the energy sector too where the Internet of Things (IoT) has made it much easier for machine/object interaction. The Internet of Things (IoT) allows objects to be sensed and/or controlled remotely across existing technology infrastructure, creating opportunities for more integration of the physical world into computer-based systems resulting in improved efficiency, accuracy and economic benefit.
Motors@Work and IoT
As an asset and energy convergence IoT application, Motors@Work can enable companies to unlock internally and externally stored information and provide users a single intelligent gateway to personalized information. This will help the latter to make timely yet informed business decisions and also control certain processes and equipment. In essence, Motors@Work acts as a domain integrator and aggregator and helps foster communication, collaboration and commerce within a member (company) “community” approved context.
Motors@Work’s energy intelligence has value by itself but even more when combined with an Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) Sysem. Motors@Work’s analytics solution provides a IoT browser-based platform for energy, asset, weather, utility rates and operational information, analytics and intelligence, all residing in the “cloud”. By providing a single collaborative environment, Motors@Work aggregates and integrates the disparate internal and external sources of asset, energy, and operational information enabling the proactive identification of motor energy performance non-conformities, repair vs. replacement opportunities (including the associated operational, maintenance and financial implications), potential process control modifications, energy measures validation as well as OEM market and demand intelligence.
Knowledge acquisition and application
As mentioned earlier, IoT enables acquisition and/or transfer of data over a network without the need for human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction. Knowledge acquisition apart, IoT applications also have the capacity to analyze the acquired data and apply the same to drive improvements. Motors@Work IoT application, for instance, can not only associate near real-time energy data with motor system design, operational, organizational and disparate dependent data but can also apply reasoning and communicate knowledge within a member (company) “community” context. In other words, Motors@Work provides an inter and intra member holistic motor-driven system intelligence environment which will provide members with security information, profiles and clearances that will serve to actively inform users of performance, priorities and necessary corrective action that needs to be taken.
One Size does not fit all approach
Though there might be quite a few common features between various motor driven systems components, the fact remains that they will differ from one another with respect to certain features or specifications. The reasons for this might be varied – ranging from the fact that different motors and driven systems are manufactured by different manufacturers, have different design and operating specifications, operate under different conditions and require different maintenance and control processes to optimize energy performance.
The advantage with the Motors@Work IoT application is that we recognize these inherent differences between motor-driven systems and deliver the financial and physical intelligence for the enterprise to be in full control of its sustainability, energy consumption and the asset and operating infrastructure that underpins them. The Motors@Work Community brings together the member Stakeholders’ (e.g. OEMs, Utility Providers, even Weather Providers), energy and asset data and performance and nonconformity analytics unique to specific motor-driven system types with a focus on promoting energy conservation and sustainability.
Who are the beneficiaries?
Motors@Work is specifically designed to support the needs of member companies (i.e.C&I , Governments, and NGOs, OEM and third party system integrators, energy service providers and consultants and Enterprise Energy Software providers), resulting in the formation of an energy and asset convergence market. The Internet-of-Things enables this “new, unique” level of intelligence, decision support, and communication to all Motors@Work member companies, stakeholders and organizations.
To sum up, the Motors@Work IoT application provides the business user(s) a systematic approach to energy efficiency enabled by the following:
- web application(s) that is simple to use and cost effective to implement
- preservation of existing investments in enterprise resource planning, asset management, energy management, SCADA and metering and sensor solutions,
- anywhere access to near real-time energy and equipment information, performance, and intelligence,
- collaboration and interoperation within motor Industry communities,
- simplified “management-by-exception”, bidirectional communication focusing on those situations that are out of control, fostering a continually improving operating environment,
- integrated IoT web environment that’s use increases user knowledge, efficiency and satisfaction while maintaining corporate standards and controls
- identify required actions and resources to meet energy reduction opportunities and
- a more energy efficient equipment portfolio resulting in a stronger bottom line.