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Focus issue:
S-Energy as the basis for attractive service provision
Earning money through
energy efficiency
Basic Fit: Standard product S-Energy Manager
opens the door
With the S-Energy Manager we have entered un-
charted territory in that it is the first time we have
offered a turnkey solution. Previously, we produced
controllers, I/O modules, communication modules –
in short components that can only perform their in-
tended function with appropriate programming or
engineering. Unlike the S-Energy Manager: it is box-
ready, just install it and you can already see power
consumption and cost. Ostensibly, the target group
is more in-house electricians rather than external
programmer with engineering knowledge. What is
our aim here?
In the meantime the awareness to attend to energy
efficiency has been rising steadily. Industry opera-
tors and operators of buildings would like to reduce
their energy consumption sooner rather than later.
But where to begin? They do not have their own
experience to draw on; commercially available so-
lutions require high investments before a single
euro can be saved. So it’s not surprising that many
struggle to make a decision and ultimately carry on
like before. With the S-Energy Manager we provide
exactly this target group with a ready-made tool for
energy monitoring that can be installed with mini-
mal investment and few resources. Even if there is
at first no mention of automation and engineering,
the subjects of energy efficiency and management
need only be placed in the company once and the
user begins to gain experience. This lays the foun-
dation for later stages of development – which will
require the expertise of automation professionals.
Good fit: Adjusting S-Energy Manager
The appetite comes with eating, so it is with energy
management. At the outset, comprehensive col-
lection and presentation of consumption data is
perfectly sufficient. It has already identified poten-
tial savings or expensive failures of equipment and
machinery. Then comes the client’s wish to adapt
monitoring to meet their own needs. It might be
that the operational values are to be calculated,
or a particular form of presentation is required, or
special switch-off mechanisms are to be created.
Here the S-Energy Manager comes into its own,
for it is not a dedicated solution, but based on
Saia® based PLC technology. Although it is a com-
plete, operation-ready energy monitoring solution,
it can be expanded and adjusted to provide individ-
ual functions and services. The same technologies
used in the Saia®Web-Panel and the Saia® PCD-con-
trollers are also used in the S-Energy Manager. Thus
the user interface takes the form of web visualiza-
tion, and energy values are read and processed by
the PLC programme. Both the web project and the
PLC program are available in source code and can
be modified with the Saia® S-WebEditor and pro-
gramming tool.
Awarded by «Building
Efficiency Dialogue
Frankfurt 2011»:
the Saia-Burgess Partner
concept wins the
«
best service» category.
