Start reducing energy costs with real-time energy data

Who pays attention to your energy bill? It's just a number at the end of the month, with no information about how you got there.

Yet controlling energy costs can significantly improve your bottom line.

To reduce energy costs, you need detailed data about energy use. The OptoEMU Sensor DR monitors the energy your facility uses in real time, then instantly delivers that data over your existing wired or wireless Ethernet network.

Connect OptoEMU to pulsing meters, Modbus devices, electrical panels, and equipment. View and analyze the data online using a software service such as eSight or build your own operator interface and send data to software programs with groov Family products.

Send energy data to control systems, using open standards such as Modbus and OPC. Send data to company databases. Send data to Opto 22's groov EPIC System or SNAP PAC System.

The OptoEMU Sensor DR adds four signal relay outputs, opening the possibility of demand response. Demand response programs not only save money but can even become a source of revenue for your business.

 

Energy Monitoring Resources

Opto 22 Energy Videos

Opto 22's Ben Orchard shows you how OptoEMU sensors can help you monitor your energy, improve your bottom line, and even gain a revenue stream. Check out Opto Energy videos.

Q & A 

Opto 22's Arun Sinha discusses how to start managing your energy now in this Q&A session, A Look at the Smart Grid's Demand Side, from Control Engineering magazine.

5 Tips for Energy Monitoring

From getting buy-in to realizing your goal, here are five tips to help you get started with energy management. Read the tips.

Automation and the Smart Grid: Energy Management Today, tells you about:

• Electrical production in the U.S. today
• The Smart Grid vision for the country's future
• Specific steps you can take today—without waiting for the Smart Grid or smart meters—to manage your industrial energy use. Read the white paper. 

Energy Monitoring for Profit: Introducing Demand Response, looks at how electrical energy gets to your business and then shows how you can take advantage of demand response (DR) programs from your local energy provider.

• Find out how energy markets work.
• Learn the types of DR programs available.
• Specific, practical steps you can start now. Read the Demand Response white paper. 

Case studies

See how other companies have reduced energy costs and even earned revenue from energy.

 

Mariah Meat Packing Plant

At the Mariah Meat Packing Plant, rising utility costs reduced profits and threatened the plant's very existence. A new monitoring system pinpointed problems with Mariah's refrigeration system and saved Mariah hundreds of thousands of dollars. Read the Mariah case study. 

Thomson/RCA

Thomson/RCA needed accurate, detailed energy costs to bill individual departments and lessees at their 80+ acre facility in Indiana. Data from over 100 I/O points solved the billing problem and pointed out possible cost savings, including reducing air compressor electrical costs by 20%. Read the Thomson/RCA case study. 

Grocer SUPERVALU

Grocer SUPERVALU, one of the largest companies in their industry, not only reduced energy costs through monitoring but also gained revenue through a sophisticated demand-response program. Read the SUPERVALU case study. 

 

SCADA Solutions

SCADA Solutions uses Internet of Things technologies to control 30-year-old wind turbines automatically, based on the fluctuating price of electricity. Watch the  SCADA Solutions Case Study video.

 Pioneer Energy

Pioneer Energy changes waste from oil fields into usable products with onsite processing and remote monitoring and control. Watch the Pioneer Energy Case Study video.