Low energy remote intelligent monitoring & control systems and products to better monitor and reduce energy consumption

整个能源问题以及减少能源消耗的必要性在全球政治议程上占据重要地位，并提高了对能源管理服务市场的重视程度。许多公司对能源效率和能源管理表现出兴趣，将其作为应对能源危机的直接选择。据报道，建筑物能源管理系统通常可以控制建筑物60 -80%的能源使用。通过优化系统，例如使其与建筑物的使用方式保持一致，可以节省大量资金。因此，为了确定可以实现的目标，了解建筑物内的当前情况非常重要。ii该项目涉及t-mac®技术的功能增强开发。目前可用的let-mac ®系统是基于网络的能源监测和管理系统，用于远程监测和记录关键读数，并提供有关设备状况的实时和历史报告。该项目旨在通过与所有主要楼宇管理系统的接口扩展技术（先进t-mac®），以实现更复杂的诊断。在这一领域的发展，智能将被纳入识别和映射特定的建筑特点对空调和锅炉规格，以确定最佳设置。麦迪还计划开发监控系统技术，以满足小型商业、工业和家庭用户的需求。这部分的项目将包括设计和开发智能光电接口，以实现现有公用事业仪表（如煤气表）的非侵入式仪表阅读，并将读数提交给供应商。该公司建议采用自供电（基于能量收集，如直线运动，压力光，振动等）。无线技术接口和智能传感器，提供最佳的成本解决方案。

The whole issue of energy and the need to reduce itsconsumption is high on the global political agenda and haveelevated the emphasis on the energy management servicesmarket. Many companies have shown interest in energyefficiency, and energy management as an immediate optionto counter the energy crisis. It has been reported that abuilding energy management system can typically control60-80% of a building's energy usage. By optimising thesystem, for example getting it to perform consistently withthe way a building is used, significant saving can be made.Therefore, in order to identify what can be achieved, it isimportant to understand the current situations within abuilding.ii This Project relates to the development of increasedfunctionality of the t-mac® technology. Currently availablet-mac® systems are web based energy monitoring andmanagement systems for remote monitoring and recordingof critical readings and providing real-time and historicalreports on equipment conditions. The project is aiming toexpand the technology (advanced t-mac®) to enable moresophisticated diagnostics through interfacing with all majorbuilding management systems. Within this area of thedevelopment, intelligence would be incorporated torecognise and map particular building characteristicsagainst air conditioning and boiler specifications in order toidentify optimum settings. T-Mac is also planning todevelop monitoring and control system technology that 11 meets the requirements for the smaller commercial,; industrial and domestic users. This part of the projectwould include the design and development of smart meteroptical interface to enable non-intrusive meter reading ofexisting utility meters (such as gas meters) and submittingreadings to the suppliers. The company proposes toemploy self-powered (based on energy harvesting such aslinear motion, pressure light, vibration etc.) wirelesstechnology interface and intelligent sensors for an optimallow cost solution.