Awareness of energy consumption is crucial for reducing energy costs and improving the efficiency of machines and electrical assets, says Makan Chen, Head of Global Business Development at electrical manufacturer ABB. “Energy meters play a vital role in identifying areas for improvement, providing significant benefits to owners, facility managers, and users by enabling smarter and more cost-efficient building operations.”
Energy meters also allow for splitting utility bills among different households, thanks to MID certification. Sub-metering offers a detailed view of energy consumption, pinpointing specific areas where energy is used.
ABB energy Meters provide essential instrumentation values, including:
- Active power
- Voltage
- Current
Monitoring power consumption for cost savings
“Energy costs are a critical factor for companies striving to maintain efficient production and competitiveness. Effective energy management and control programs can significantly reduce energy consumption by continuously monitoring usage and adjusting control parameters. Companies that evaluate and analyse data over specific time intervals can interpret results and implement actions to lower energy consumption,” says Chen.
ABB offers extensive expertise in energy management and a wide range of low-voltage products that provide operators with performance indicators for communicating, transmitting, analysing, and sometimes automatically routing and regulating electrical distribution.
ABB’s energy management solutions provide the following benefits:
- Interoperability & integration: ABB products communicate with globally accepted protocols such as Modbus, M-Bus, KNX, ensuring seamless integration and interoperability.
- Energy meters: ABB energy meters are DIN-rail mounted devices used in industrial, residential, and commercial buildings to measure and collect electricity consumption data. They are essential for energy management systems or cost analysis. Sub-meters are increasingly used in industrial settings to determine energy costs of specific departments, processes, or product lines.
- G13 Gateway: The G13 gateway facilitates the integration of ABB energy meters into a system environment, providing a single access point to a network of meters. It can connect to 32 meters on the meter side, accessed through an Ethernet connection on the system side.
- M2M network analyser: The M2M network analyser offers expanded analysis functions to optimise energy consumption efficiently. By allowing building operators to view and measure all electrical parameters, energy losses can be detected, and power consumption optimised. The M2M devices also offer conversion functions to measure values in CO2/kg and currency, providing concrete and meaningful data for efficient resource use.
Circuit Monitoring Systems (CMS): A CMS is a multi-channel measurement system for branch monitoring, primarily useful for current monitoring. The system consists of a control unit and sensors connected by a flat cable. The sensors communicate with the control unit through a single line, and their compact size results in significant space savings. Up to 64 sensors can be connected to the control unit.
Chen concludes by saying, “By implementing ABB’s advanced energy meters and monitoring systems, businesses can achieve substantial cost savings, improve energy efficiency, and contribute to a more sustainable environment.”
Enquiries: www.global.abb