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EVERBAT - EDF GROUP: energy efficiency for tertiary buildings
For its energy efficiency department, Everbat, EDF Group, implemented a computer platform using Topkapi as its backbone; it offers its clients remote service solutions allowing to monitor technical facilities: collection of energy data, notification of technical alarms, equipment programming, energy budgets, etc.
A 100% EDF subsidiary, EVERBAT is a company providing local authorities, property developers and real estate facility managers with facilities using renewable energies and remote monitoring services of technical facilities.
For its remote service solutions, EVERBAT relies on its energy efficiency department which acquired in 2007 a facility monitoring tool – A/C, heating, renewable energies – based on the TOPKAPI supervision software. The latter then met the many criteria defined by EVERBAT and the EDF specialists, including:
- Software platform independent from manufacturers of building automation products
- Full catalogue of remote management protocols
- Experience and know-how in developing new protocols
- Native management of data time-stamped at the source and communication by RTC/GSM/GPRS modem
- Structuration of applications for self-configuration and development of customized reusable objects
The purpose of the platform is communication with the main building facilities management systems and communicating regulators in order to:
- Control energy demand
- Ensure user comfort
- Control/monitor the operation of equipment
To achieve this, the platform ensures:
- Acquisition and archiving of daily energy data available on building technical management
- Continuous scheduling (periodical and on demand), including for setting instructions and occupation calendars
- Acquisition of technical alarms related to equipment or operating failures
- Energy reports
The platform is administered by heat engineers, a profession which is not the automation but analysis and monitoring of technical and energy data. Supervision hence required proposing tools allowing to integrate a new building technical management in a simple, fast and effective way. The implementation of a profession layer, in the form of structured database objects and associated graphic representation, as well as the possibilities of self-configuration linked with the Softlink configuration wizard, allow to interpret configuration files of the building technical management, and generate the synoptic diagram screens and data processing automatically.
Today, for the building technical management facilities allowing it, a few minutes are enough to integrate remote transmission of a new building, and implement data collection and the synoptic diagram screens offering remote monitoring of the facility.