Enterprise Metering Data:
The Foundation of Energy Intelligence in Food
In today’ s food processing industry, energy is both a major cost and a critical operational input. Yet many organisations still rely on fragmented, poorly commissioned metering systems that deliver inconsistent and unreliable data. The result is uncertainty around cost allocation, sustainability reporting, carbon accounting and operational performance.
The reality is simple:
Without high-quality metering data, there can be no high-quality energy management.
Most large, multi-site food manufacturers experience similar challenges.
• Meters fail, meters are renewed or are installed incorrectly. Communications drop out. Data is incomplete, mis-scaled or inconsistently configured.
• Information is split between utilities, legacy metering systems and BMS platforms, often with no clear ownership or audit trail.
Metering and data issues frequently remain undetected for months, undermining reporting accuracy and business confidence
Elcomponent Enterprise Metering
An enterprise approach to metering data management resolves and captures these risks.
By accepting any metering data to a central location, validating,
8 FDPP- www. fdpp. co. uk identifying issues and passing good quality data to any system is key for maximising decision making and efficiencies.
Rather than treating metering as a collection of devices, leading organisations should be considering metering systems as strategic infrastructure.
Whilst, using disparate systems with a mixture of technologies across multiple sites is challenging, organisations can start to control the quality and data availability by adopting a centralised solution for metering data.
Enterprise Meter Data Management unifies data from any source: sub-meters, utility meter data, 3rd party EMS, wireless metering, BMS, APIs and data files- into a secure, validated and monitored environment.
Data is made available, in a consistent manner to any analysis system. Allowing the organisation to use data in different systems in the knowledge that metering data is consistent, real world metering issues are identified.
Increasing data quality and availability to provide better energy management
In an ideal world, organisations should deploy a dedicated energy monitoring system, not simply a collection of random technology, building management system( BMS) or SCADA adapted for energy reporting.
Elcomponent can provide dedicated Energy Monitoring Systems that provide realtime diagnostics, track every component of the metering chain, analyse wireless signal performance, and automatically identify missing or anomalous data. This provides even greater visibility and early detection of metering issues.
The‘ Enterprise Meter Management Solution’ will accept data from other systems where data tracking and error detection can be greatly improved.
Good quality metering requires:
• Correct meter specification and installation by experienced engineers
• Robust commissioning and validation processes
• Continuous system diagnostics and data completeness monitoring
• Proactive maintenance of loggers, communications and power supplies
• Clear governance of configuration, naming conventions and scaling
It is clear that the customer must always own their data and should have unrestricted access to it.
Our Enterprise Meter Management Solution ensures energy data is available via secure APIs and automated exports to thirdparty energy management platforms, ESG systems, billing tools, or business intelligence environments such as Microsoft Power BI
Elcomponent stands apart, with over 40 years of metering expertise.
From systems, installation, commissioning to software tools providing open, flexible architecture-“ any system in, any system out”
Elcomponent delivers enterpriseready metering solutions. sales @ elcomponent. co. uk www. elcomponent. co. uk