VRT Appointed as a Schneider ESI (Energy Systems Integrator)
In the last year or so, Schneider Electric has significantly increased its
emphasis on energy management products and services in all aspects of its
business. One of the expanded initiatives is to appoint, train and authorise
specialist organisations as Energy Systems Integrators (ESI). VRT is pleased to
announce that it has been accredited as one of these ESIs.
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MacroView Upgrades in Japan.
VRT has recently converted several of its Japanese MacroView customers from the
Solaris operating system to Linux. Over 500 MacroView systems are operating
worldwide. Many of those running on various legacy versions of Unix are being
migrated to the preferred platforms: Linux, OpenSolaris and Microsoft Server.
View these MacroView system user sites on Google earth.
NGER Reporting.
Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) legislation is constantly in the news these
days. While the politicians bicker, businesses are putting in the hard yards
behind the scenes to measure and account for their greenhouse related
emissions. VRT is assisting several of its customers, including Gladstone Ports
Corporation and Vale's Australian Coal Operations by conducting National
Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (NGER) and Energy Efficient Opportunities (EEO)
Gap Audits and designing company specific Emission Accounting Systems for their
ongoing management and legislative reporting.
SATEC BFM Saves Metering Costs.
The need for power metering is being driven by many legislative requirements such
as EEO, NGER, Greenstar, the National Australian Built Environment Rating
System (NABERS), etc., as well as the need to reduce the ever increasing cost
of energy. Three phase energy and power quality meters range in price from sub $1,000 to over
$11,000. Network connection costs can also be substantial. With some
legislation requiring metering down to 100KVA circuits, this can represent a
high meter count and consequent high cost in many cases. SATEC has a unique
multi-circuit monitor, which significantly reduces metering costs in many of
these situations.
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Want Alarms and KPIs real-time on your iPhone?
Wireless technology is ubiquitous, and the
acceptance of 3G mobile communications has allowed users to have access to
information services that had once been the stuff of science fiction. Sentient
Computing recognised that coupling MacroView's existing robust data server with
leading edge flexible and powerful software technology, would allow something
special to be created.
In an area that has been difficult for even the major vendors to release
successful products, Sentient has developed something special - iMV.
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RUMS Stage 3 Upgrade completed for Defence.
The original Regional Utility Management System (RUMS) was completed in 2003. Since
then, the system has grown in size and functionality, with the latest upgrade
being completed recently by VRT. The initial focus of the system was to assist
with the management of energy consumption and greenhouse gas reduction and
reporting. The latest upgrade added more system infrastructure management and
power quality facilities, i.e. the upgrade had more of an engineering focus.
One of the key drivers was to establish this type of infrastructure now and in
advance of the major redevelopments planned for the base in the next few years
- approx. 30% of the Gallipoli Barracks will be redeveloped as part of the
ELF2B project currently underway.
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The Case for an ESI (Energy Systems Integrator)
A raft of Government and legislative initiatives such as EEO, EEGO, NGER, ETS, etc. are
driving businesses to implement systems to reduce the consumption of energy and
to reduce their carbon footprints. These are increasingly called WAGES (Water
Air Gas Electricity and Steam) monitoring systems.These systems are rapidly increasing in
technical complexity and in requirements to integrate with other forms of
computing systems.
Elements of these systems typically form parts of contract packages tendered and managed by a
variety of engineering disciplines. Because they represent a minor part (cost
wise) of any particular contract and because they are poorly understood, in
general, they often represent an afterthought. Because of our extensive
experience in this area, VRT was recently approached by a major contracting
organisation to prepare a discussion paper and recommend a solution to their
particular situation. A generic version of this document is downloadable here for
those who are also interested in coming to grips with this growing problem
area.
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