Monitoring & Targeting

Monitoring and Targeting (M&T) is a structured approach to energy management that provides a simple yet powerful technique for identifying inefficient performance and eliminating waste. It is based around the principle that in order to manage something you must first be able to measure and quantify it.

The first step is to monitor what you manage: the source of the data can be from invoices, manual meters readings, or imported or automatically read half-hourly data.
The second step is to relate this to the independent variables that influence energy consumption, such as degree days for buildings or production outputs from an industrial process.

Once you can understand how utilities are being used, you can set realistic targets and carry out ongoing monitoring and identifying waste by Exception Reporting.

Through UtilityTrak™, Blizzard takes M&T to a new level, allowing any type of process to be defined and modelled, with a choice of regression analysis, formulae, performance indices or historical comparisons to be used for setting targets. You can select the most appropriate method of targeting for a particular type of process or data set, be it a building or a pumping station or a factory.

Monitoring and Targeting

Advanced Regression Analysis allows for accurate target setting.

The application of CUSUM to the targeting process allows aggressive but achievable targets to be set.
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For half hourly data, UtilityTrak™ also allows you to set targets based on historic consumption patterns.
Exception reports are used to highlight variations from target so that waste can be detected and remedial action instigated immediately.

In addition to monitored periods, UtilityTrak™ also includes an analysis of rolling years to detect more subtle longer term changes in performance.

Detailed reports and graphs, including CUSUM, provide the perfect means of highlighting and illustrating energy and targeting performance.