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The e-Tools an Energy Management Systrem Software
E-Tools software is a complete power management solution for energy providers and industrial or commercial operations. It gives power plant personnel the information they need in maximizing the UI revenues. The software uses a choice of industry-standard network technologies, including Ethernet and wireless, to automatically collect and store data from key electrical distribution points and physical assets. Web-enabled access gives each user a personalized view to timely, relevant information. E-Tools helps you track real-time power conditions, analyse power quality and reliability, and respond quickly to alarms to avoid critical situations. It helps you study historical trends to reveal energy generated vs available capacity as well as verify efficiency improvements. The software includes sophisticated load aggregation and arithmetic calculation.
Key features
- Scalable, flexible architecture: grow your system to hundreds of metering points; add distributed servers and clients; uses MS Excel interface for complex data processing and control functions
- Data acquisition: collect system-wide data from power and energy meters communicate over Internet, Ethernet, wireless and other methods; integrate with third-party meters, equipment and web services
- Interoperability: share data with third-party SCADA, automation and business systems; compliant with ODBC and OPC standards
- Web portal: multi-user access to customized graphical views of system diagrams, real-time and historical data, status indicators and alarm messages; multi-level security
- Reporting: preconfigured and custom reports; support for Microsoft Excel and other third-party reporting tools; scheduled distribution via email or web
- Trending: graph any combination of measured parameters; aggregate loads
- Alarms and events: trigger on complex conditions; generate alarm notifications; log all relevant event data
- Control: manual or set point-triggered control functions; coordinated control of multiple loads, generators, relays or other power distribution and mitigation equipment
- The database is SQL SERVER 2008 Express
Real-time monitoring
- View key distribution points across one or more facilities or substations, accessible from any workstation, locally or around the world.
- Display real-time power and energy measurements, historical trends and data logs, alarm conditions, equipment status (on/off, temperature, pressure, etc.), control triggers and analysis tools.
- Uses MS Excel interface to perform sophisticated data computations, then display and log derived values.
- Select pre-configured diagrams or easily create customized views comprising digital readouts, dials, bar or trend graphs, one-line or elevation diagrams, maps, photos and animation.
- Set up hyper-links between diagrams, then use easy point-and-click navigation to reveal deeper layers of detail, e.g. start with a site overview, click once to reveal a feeder, click again to see a disturbance analysis.
- Group relevant measurements, indicators and controls into a library of convenient views.
- Easily extract and analyze selected ranges of information from the database using a query wizard.
Reporting
- Reports can be generated manually, on schedule or event-driven. Distribute automatically as email or HTML.
- Standard reports: Generate reports through Microsoft® Excel™ using a fast and convenient report wizard interface. Daily ABT Reports, Shift wise ABT reports, Negative UI Analysis Report, ABT GAP reports are available and modifiable.
- Aggregate load profile reports – system-wide usage patterns over the specified date range, including timestamps and peak usage.
- Custom reports: Use Visual Basic® for Applications or any off-the-shelf SQL Server reporting tools, such as Crystal Reports®, to customize reports and enable further analysis. Combine e-Tools data with other databases to reveal true business conditions.
Trend analysis
- Generate one or more trend graph overlays for interpretation of data using simple visual analyses.
- Trend on any measured parameter: voltage, current, power, power factor, demand, predicted demand, energy, harmonics, temperature, etc.
- Graph aggregate load profiles from multiple metering points or compare related parameters from across your enterprise.
- Create usage profiles to reveal demand peaks, dangerous trends, or unused capacity.
- Track system-wide energy-related costs for each building, feeder, process or tool.
Alarms and events
- Receive alerts to outages or impending problems that could lead to equipment stress, failures or downtime.
- Configure alarms to trigger on power quality events, power thresholds or equipment conditions.
- Meter-based alarms are immediately pushed to the software without waiting for system polls.
- Annunciate alarms through operator workstations, email, mobile phone using messages customized for the task.
- Configure the combinational logic in MS Excel to trigger on complex or summary conditions and automatically send out notifications, upload all associated event data and generate a report.
- Log complete information on an event, including related coincident conditions and waveform captures, all with accurate timestamps.
- Correlate and categorize sequences of events.
- Schedule maintenance based on operating history, events and alarms.
Manual and automated control
- Perform fast, manual control operations by clicking on-screen trigger buttons; operate remote breakers, relays and other power distribution and mitigation equipment.
- Use the EMSCalbook feature to perform automated control over distributed equipment:
- Gathers data from multiple devices and incorporates process variables
- Initiates automatic, coordinated control actions if predefined thresholds are exceeded
- Supports a wide range of applications:
- Shed loads or start up peak-shaving generators in response to interruptible rates, real-time pricing, or to avoid setting a new peak demand.
- Manage distributed generation assets.
- Control capacitor banks to correct power factor, improve energy efficiency and avoid penalties.
- Start fans to prevent transformer overheating if total harmonic distortion is too high.
