Demo Abstract: Energy Optimization in Commercial Buildings: From Monitoring to Savings Realization

Commercial buildings such as office space, educational institutions and retail outlets consume more than 10% of total energy consumption in most countries. Major loads such as air conditioning and UPS together with diesel generator (used to provide backup power supply) constitute majority of energy expenses for such facilities, specifically in a developing economy like India. Lack of detailed monitoring for these subsystems results in several wasteful activities going unnoticed. Zenatix, an energy data analytics company, provides robust real time monitoring of energy and related data. Collected data is then analyzed to provide actionable insights in the form of SMS and Email based alerts leading to efficient manual control (preferred by facilities in India over automated control). In this paper, we present some examples of real world use cases of Zenatix's energy analytics that helped customers identify wasteful operations and reduce them to achieve up to 15% energy savings.