The first step in digital transformation: Acrel's EIOT platform makes digitization easy. Remotely monitor power data by scanning a QR code with your mobile phone!
Energy consumption management directly determines a company's profit margin and core competitiveness. Traditional industrial energy management models have many shortcomings and are difficult to adapt to the requirements of continuous industrial production, lean management, and safety compliance. The core pain points are as follows:
Limited retrofit implementation: Old distribution cabinets have limited space and high load current, requiring power outages for routine retrofits, which can easily cause production interruptions and capacity losses, resulting in high construction costs and risks.
Hidden and difficult-to-control safety hazards: The operating parameters of power distribution circuits and high-power equipment cannot be monitored in real time, making it difficult to provide early warnings of potential hazards such as overheating, leakage, and overload, leading to significant electrical safety accident risks.
Energy efficiency management is rudimentary: it can only count total energy consumption, but cannot break down energy consumption by workshop, production line, and equipment. Inefficient equipment and the source of energy waste cannot be accurately located, and there is no clear direction for energy-saving renovations.
Data communication is unstable: signal is weak in underground power distribution rooms and remote factory areas, and traditional communication modules are prone to data disconnection and packet loss, resulting in a lack of guarantee for energy consumption data transmission.
To address the aforementioned pain points, Acrel has launched a smart energy solution for factories, centered around the ADW300/4GHW wireless metering instrument and the Acrel-EIoT energy IoT cloud platform.
Relying on secondary mutual inductor installation without power outages, 4G wireless direct transmission, and cloud-based intelligent analysis technology, it enables visible, controllable, and optimized energy consumption across all scenarios in distributed factories, solving the challenges of industrial energy management.
The Acrel-EIoT energy IoT cloud platform adopts an industrial-grade "end-edge-cloud" integrated architecture, realizing full-link connectivity of on-site data collection, edge computing, and cloud management. It builds a unified energy management system from the group to the plant area and from the plant area to the workshop, ensuring stable data transmission and efficient collaborative management, and providing intelligent decision support for enterprise energy management.
II. Core Functions
- Centralized Visual Management and Control: Through a customized data dashboard, headquarters can monitor energy consumption data and equipment operating status across all factories, workshops, and key equipment in real time. It supports generating multi-dimensional energy consumption reports and trend charts by factory area, workshop, time period, and shift, automatically completing peak-valley-flat electricity consumption and itemized energy consumption statistics, achieving panoramic visualization of energy consumption across the entire region.
- End-to-End Electrical Safety Protection: A closed-loop safety system is constructed, providing 24/7 real-time monitoring, intelligent early warning, and rapid response. It monitors key parameters such as cable temperature, leakage current, load, and voltage in real time. When parameters exceed limits, it accurately pushes early warning information through multiple channels such as APP, SMS, and DingTalk, locating potential hazards and preventing electrical safety accidents from the source, ensuring continuous and stable production.
- Refined Energy Efficiency Management: Achieves itemized metering across production, auxiliary, and office scenarios, accurately breaking down energy consumption for various equipment and identifying high-consumption nodes and waste sources; adapts to peak-valley and tiered electricity pricing policies, automatically generating energy efficiency analysis reports and providing suggestions for off-peak electricity use; supports energy consumption quotas and prepaid management, strictly controlling excessive energy consumption and achieving lean cost reduction.
- Intelligent Operation and Maintenance: Replaces manual meter reading, achieving automatic energy consumption data collection and report generation, completely solving the pain points of manual operation and maintenance, reducing energy management labor costs by more than 60%, achieving standardized and intelligent operation and maintenance processes, freeing up management energy to focus on core production.
III. Core Advantages of the Solution
Extremely Simple Deployment, Uninterrupted Production Implementation: Installation without power outages, simplified process, can be completed by ordinary electricians, does not affect normal production, and can be quickly put into operation.
Lightweight Investment, Controllable Costs: 4G wireless deployment requires no additional wiring, reducing construction costs by more than 50%, and functions and equipment can be selected as needed, adapting to enterprises of different sizes.
Stable communication and complete data: The industrial-grade communication module supports breakpoint resumption, ensuring no data loss in weak signal areas and guaranteeing continuous transmission.
Compatible and adaptable, flexible expansion: Adaptable to various manufacturing sectors and industrial park scenarios, the system can stably operate without reconstruction when enterprises expand production capacity or factory areas.