Serious Energy

SeriousEnergy Manager With Cisco Network Building Mediator

The Challenge

Facilities and energy managers are faced with unprecedented challenges to contain energy costs. Volatile energy prices and tariff schedules, coupled with only coarse visibility into consumption patterns limit the identification of efficiency opportunities and management of the energy budget. Furthermore, managers struggle to report on and forecast usage to internal departments, impacting financial reporting and blocking progress on sustainability goals.
Traditional building automation systems themselves do not solve the issue. There is little to no interoperability of these systems or use of true open standards to allow for easier aggregation of the data. Collection and analysis are costly, time consuming, and often inadequate in detail.

The Solution

The SeriousEnergy Manager and Cisco Mediator combined, has the ability to monitor, analyze, control and optimize (MonACO) energy demand across systems that previously had different management interfaces and no mechanism to share data.
The Mediator collects data from building controls systems and energy demand systems in real time. It then normalizes the data into a common data XML interface. This enables the Mediator to perform protocol translation and communicate the device information over the Internet using TCP/IP. With this network-­based platform the SeriousEnergy Manager can communicate to different devices, including thermostats, HVAC units, lighting and IT equipment. A web-services API provides remote access for smart phone applications.

SeriousEnergy Manager software is the web-based application interface to the Mediator that provides the intelligence and tools for:

Monitoring

Unified dashboard to track energy use, generation and costs in real-­time at the device level; present data to key stakeholders through customizable reports

Analytics

Confirm proper functioning of building systems through automated anomaly detection. Optimize energy use and generation: built-­in analytics for energy flows, weather and pricing identify opportunities to optimize energy use based on factors such as price, comfort and carbon emissions

Controls

Reduce management by automatically adjusting devices based on defined objectives through single interface

Optimization

Peak demand management to reduce energy costs by optimizing your energy demand based on your specific time-­of-use pricing schedules

Accounting and Billing

Support billing to retail energy customers and internal chargeback to departments

SeriousEnergy Management Solution

SeriousEnergy offers audit and design services for deployment of smart meters and Mediators to enable the solution.

Partnership for Sustainability and Success

Cisco and SeriousEnergy work together with our customers to build energy management solutions of the future. Our goal is to simplify your management tasks and gain control of your energy.