January 30, 2013 - Powerit Solutions announces Spara Hub, which takes Powerit’s energy management system (EMS) into the cloud, giving Spara DM (Demand Manager) users and Powerit partners a user-friendly demand management tool.
Spara DM uses sophisticated load prediction and control algorithms, built-in load-shedding intelligence, and data drawn from industrial equipment, electricity meters, and utility transmissions to optimize facility energy use —without compromising production. Spara Hub connects to multiple data streams and allows users to quickly get a comprehensive view of their energy usage and costs to enable optimal control for savings and sustainability. With Spara Hub, users can more effortlessly fine-tune demand control and leverage dynamic pricing and demand response programs, as well as run alternative scenarios. Spara Hub connects changing utility data with changing customer load information in real time, enabling energy use decisions based on the price of electricity.
This access to real-time utility pricing, plus integration with the latest ISO, utility, and aggregator programs, allows Spara DM users and Powerit partners to take full advantage of smart grid capabilities. Spara Hub lets users remotely access their data on any device without maintaining on-site databases, log in to view multiple sites with one password, compare energy data across sites to get an enterprise-level view of their energy use and demand control savings, and manage demand settings and utility program participation. Spara Hub allows partners to easily integrate Spara into their solutions and analyze customer demand profiles to create tailored demand management solutions.
Going far beyond an energy pricing dashboard, Spara Hub augments Spara DM’s controls with visualization and analysis tools focused on demand management. Users can slice and dice their current and historic energy usage and costs via numerous views and graphs, and even drill down into specific loads to determine how they contributed to a demand peak. In a future release, Powerit’s aggregated energy data—a secure, protected, and anonymized data stream—will allow facilities to benchmark themselves against industry norms and help customers analyze and model potential demand control and demand response savings.
