How Agile Predictive Monitoring platform improve energy efficiency and sustainability?

Overreliance on conventional, non-renewable energy sources is associated with increased carbon emissions and climate change. Meanwhile, rising energy costs and supply volatility have affected major industries and citizens alike. Thus, the initiative falls on industrial companies to revisit their energy and sustainability strategies.

IoT has emerged as a promising contender to help industrial firms solve their energy woes in recent years, although it has yet to fully realized its potential. In this article, we’ll explore IoT’s viability in stabilizing energy costs while meeting environmental goals.

How IoT is reshaping energy management

Industrial companies adopt IoT technologies to reduce production costs, optimize efficiency and prevent unplanned breakdowns. For example, they install sensors in manufacturing assets to detect anomalies and perform timely repairs. This ensures that production facilities meet tight schedules and costs. IoT also enabled enterprises to create a very detailed picture of what is going on in real-time with smart sensors and analytics infrastructure to understand inefficiencies locally. Instead of taking measurements manually, once every month, companies can act preemptively. Industrial facilities leverage IoT and data analytics for optimizing energy usage and meeting sustainability goals. Real-time transmission of environmental parameters from critical energy infrastructure and equipment allows enterprises to reduce energy bills, anticipate technical problems and minimize carbon footprint simultaneously in real-time.

What is Skysens AgPM?

Skysens Agile Predictive Monitoring (AgPM) Platform is an integrated IoT and industrial data analytics platform for industrial facilities. It allows industrial companies to integrate IoT sensors, consolidate data, and run analytics easily with no code interface in an agile way. AgPM works with various industrial communication interfaces, including MODBUS, OPC UA/DA, Profinet, and MQTT. It also provides seamless coverage to the entire industrial facility areas indoor and outdoor with an integrated long-range wireless network for IoT devices based on LoRaWAN technology. Built with scalability in mind, Skysens AgPM allows technical operators to add new sensor points via the plug-and-play approach. Thanks to its smart analytics, enterprises using Skysens AgPM have reported up to 20% of energy cost reduction in all energy types. More importantly, real-time alerts from the platform allow industrial companies to be 5x more responsive to energy and sustainability incidents. What are the challenges in improving energy efficiency and sustainability? There is no doubt that IoT benefits industrial processes, but real-life implementations have uncovered various challenges.

What is Skysens AgPM?

Skysens Agile Predictive Monitoring (APM) Platform is an integrated IoT and industrial data analytics platform for industrial facilities. It allows industrial companies to integrate IoT sensors, consolidate data, and run analytics and AI easily with no code interface in an agile way. AgPM works with various industrial communication interfaces, including MODBUS, OPC UA/DA, Profinet, and MQTT. It also provides seamless coverage to the entire industrial facility areas indoors and outdoors with an integrated long-range wireless network for IoT devices based on LoRaWAN technology. Built with scalability in mind, Skysens AgPM allows technical operators to add new sensor points via the plug-and-play approach. Thanks to its smart analytics, enterprises using Skysens AgPM have reported up to 20% of energy cost reduction in all energy types. More importantly, real-time alerts from the platform allow industrial companies to be 5x more responsive to energy and sustainability incidents.

How does Skysens AgPM work to meet energy efficiency goals?

Skysens AgPM bridges the gap in energy efficiency efforts with the following means.

Flexible Integration

Skysens AgPM allows industrial companies to optimize diverse energy sources such as electricity, gas, steam, and pressurized air. AgPM enables technical operators to monitor all energy and operational assets by adding additional sensors with different types, integrates different energy-related data streams, and run analytics seamlessly on edge without any cloud connectivity if needed. Many factories have SCADA systems to operate and monitor their production lines and industrial infrastructure. Discarding existing systems for newer IoT infrastructure is often not financially viable. Instead, Skysens AgPM enables IoT software and sensors to communicate with older systems via industrial data adapters and retrofit sensors. This allows industrial companies to modernize operations and scale their infrastructure without a significant increase in CAPEX.

Real-Time Analytics

Industrial companies use real-time analytics to make operational decisions and to keep equipment functioning optimally. Skysens AgPM promises ultra-low latency data acquisition and real-time analytics thanks to its edge deployment capability. Technical operators then use the AgPM’s intuitive visual interface to understand real-time situations on the system and get notifications without losing time. For example, industrial analysts can set up a sustainability monitoring system and collaborative analysis within the premise by adding multiple data streams. Then, they use the AgPM Platform to create relational decisions based on different data sources and act preemptively.

Smart Reporting and Alerts

All alerts in industrial facilities must propagate and reach the right key person without delays. Skysens AgPM is built with smart notification capabilities, which can integrate with other enterprise management systems. The timely response from the real-time alerting system ensures technical operators attend to incidents immediately. Also flexible scheduled reporting capability and integration to reporting tools such as Microsoft BI makes AgPM a go-to tool for internal archiving and data-sharing efforts.

How do industrial processes benefit from Skysens AgPM?

Industrial companies have little room to navigate as they strive to minimize energy consumption and meet sustainability KPIs. Skysens AgPM enables industrial plants to reduce energy costs by up to 20% and minimizes carbon footprint with very short investment returns thanks to its flexible architecture and wireless data capture capabilities. Furthermore, industrial companies spend less on repairs as the AgPM’s predictive analytics allow them to avoid costly breakdowns on energy infrastructure.

With Skysens AgPM, industrial operators do away with manual data gathering, compilation, and reporting. Our platform allows them to scale process monitoring without worrying about wiring, configuration, and coding. Technical operators use AgPM to integrate legacy or non-IoT systems with low-power, long-range IoT wireless sensors with minimal effort. Skysens AgPM provides real-time analytics that enables industrial firms to respond to changing market variables accurately and promptly. The ease of generating reports in AgPM allows managers to meet regulatory compliance and run in-depth efficiency and compliance analyses. AgPM’s smart analytics also help industrial companies to establish socially-conscious reputations with the right sustainability strategies.

Conclusion

Consumers are calling for more environmentally-conscious and energy-efficient supply chains. IoT allows industrial companies to take the first step, and Skysens AgPM adds a boost in the right direction. Our platform solves teething problems major industries face as they migrate from legacy systems to IoT-powered analytics and data-driven operations.