Development and Validation of an IoT-based Energy Management Information System for Industrial Systems Benchmarking

ASA能源咨询有限公司位于不列颠哥伦比亚省温哥华，是一家独立的、全方位服务的能源咨询、工程和项目开发公司。ASA Energy已经注意到，能源效率项目的主要障碍之一是缺乏真正的基准方法，因为目前的基准工业系统和过程依赖于性能指标的比较，这是有限的。通过合作，asa能源咨询有限公司和兰姆顿学院成功地完成了项目的第一阶段，重点是初步开发一个准确的、可重复的、可比较的、时间独立的、以客户为导向的基准体系和标准，提高ISO 50001和ISO 50006目前使用的能源绩效指标（EnPI）的质量。通过这个项目，ASA Energy和Lambton College计划扩展该系统，扩展其工具功能，改进基于云的系统和现有的数据验证系统。这将包括开发具有嵌入式计算、接口和通信的物联网传感器平台。该项目还将开发分析工具套件，以证明物联网传感器集成在能源管理信息系统中的可行性。该项目的成功将导致新技术的发展，这将使ASA能源公司能够通过提供一个基于云的能源性能基准测试和节能验证平台，将其能源管理服务扩展到现有和新客户。这也将增加ASA的竞争优势和市场份额，因为工业和商业设施越来越多地寻求简化的战略能源管理计划，同时保持数据安全。预计通过将该项目的成果商业化，在五年内每年将创造至少20万美元的新收入来源。此外，该项目的成功将为asa能源公司创造10个直接职位，并为加拿大创造数千个间接就业机会。

ASA Energy Consulting Ltd. is based in Vancouver BC, operating as an independent, full-service energyconsulting, engineering, and project development firm. ASA Energy has noticed that one of the main barriers toenergy efficiency programs is the lack of real benchmarking methodology as current benchmarking industrialsystems and processes rely on a comparison of performance metrics, which is limited. In collaboration, ASAEnergy Consulting Ltd. and Lambton College successfully completed the first phase of the project that focusedon the initial development of an accurate, repeatable, comparable, and time-independent, customer-orientedbenchmarking system and standards, improving the quality of Energy Performance Indicators (EnPI) currentlyused by ISO 50001 and ISO 50006.Through this proposed project, ASA Energy and Lambton College are planning to expand the system andextend its tool capability, improving upon the cloud-based systems, and systems in place for validating data.This will include the development of an IoT sensor platform with embedded computing, interfacing andcommunications. The project will also develop analytics tool suit to demonstrate the viability of the IoT sensorintegration within an energy management information system.The success of this project will result in the development of novel technology that will allow ASA Energy toexpand their energy management services to its existing and new customers by providing a cloud-basedplatform for energy performance benchmarking and energy savings verification. This will also increase ASA'scompetitive advantage and market share as industrial and commercial facilities are increasingly seekingstreamlined strategic energy management initiatives while maintaining data security. It is expected that bycommercializing the outcomes of this project that new revenue streams will be created by at least $200,000yearly over five years. Furthermore, the success of the project will lead to the creation of 10 direct positions atASA Energy as well as contribute to the creation of thousands of indirect jobs in Canada.