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Achievements
EVERBAT - EDF Group
Energy efficiency for service
buildings
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For its energy efficiency
department, Everbat, EDF Group, implemented a computer platform
using TOPKAPI as its backbone; it offers its clients remote service
solutions allowing to monitor technical facilities: collection of
energy data, notification of technical alarms, equipment programming,
energy budgets … |
A 100% EDF subsidiary, EVERBAT is a company
providing local authorities, property developers and real estate facility managers with
facilities using renewable energies and remote monitoring services of technical
facilities.
For its remote service solutions, EVERBAT
relies on its energy efficiency department which acquired in 2007 a facility
monitoring tool – A/C, heating, renewable energies – based on the
TOPKAPI
supervision software. The latter then met the many criteria defined by EVERBAT
and the EDF specialists, including:
Software platform
independent from manufacturers of building automation products
Full catalogue of
remote management protocols
Experience and
know-how in developing new protocols
Native management of
data time-stamped at the source and communication by RTC/GSM/GPRS modem
Structuration of
applications for self-configuration and development of customized reusable
objects
The purpose of the platform is communication
with the main building facilities management systems and communicating
regulators in order to:
Control energy demand
Ensure user comfort
Control/monitor the
operation of equipment
To achieve this, the platform ensures:
Acquisition and
archiving of daily energy data available on building technical management
Continuous
scheduling (periodical and on demand), including for setting instructions and
occupation calendars
Acquisition of
technical alarms related to equipment or operating failures
Energy reports
The platform is administered by heat
engineers, a profession which is not the automation but analysis and monitoring
of technical and energy data. Supervision hence required proposing tools
allowing to integrate a new building technical management in a simple, fast and
effective way. The implementation of a profession layer, in the form of
structured database objects and associated graphic representation, as well as
the possibilities of self-configuration linked with the Softlink configuration
wizard, allow to interpret configuration files of the building technical
management, and generate the synoptic diagram screens and data processing
automatically.
Today, for the building technical management
facilities allowing it, a few minutes are enough to integrate remote
transmission of a new building, and implement data collection and the synoptic
diagram screens offering remote monitoring of the facility.
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