21.5             Building Energy Management System (BEMS)

 

The Building Energy Management System is an analysis tool producing charts and reports to evaluate energy usage in buildings, campuses and other facilities. 

Figure 1.1 – Energy Profile – Actual KWH versus Management Value .

This Building Energy Management System (BEMS) Software runs in association with WebAccess HMI & SCADA software. This is a software product requiring users to install appropriate energy monitoring hardware (such as electric kilowatt-hour meters, gas flow meters , etc) that can be connected to IO or automation hardware.  These sensors are then read by the WebAccess HMI & SCADA software which in turn makes this data available to the BEMS software.

The BEMS software creates a set of ODBC databases (MS Access is the default) independent of the WebAccess HMI & SCADA  databases.

The BEMS software creates a set of pre-formatted charts and reports commonly used in Energy Analysis of Buildings and Facilities.  These preformatted displays are best viewed at 1280 x 1024 pixels resolution or greater.