Data from meters for remote reading monitor Prague’s energy costs
The municipal company Operátor ICT (OICT) will ensure the continued operation of the remote reading technology for heat, electricity, gas and water consumption for Prague. Prague thus gets a continuous overview of energy and water consumers. Meter data will be simultaneously collected and managed by the OICT for analysis that will reveal deviations in consumption from the standard. This follows from the contract, which was approved by the Prague councilors at Monday’s meeting.
The provision of remote energy and water consumption reading services follows on from the two-year pilot project “Complex energy management in HMP buildings using energy management”. This was completed this spring and successfully verified the use of remote reading technology in the conditions of municipal buildings. In the course of the project, a sample of two dozen buildings identified, among other things, several opportunities to adjust the contracted energy parameters, which as a result, in addition to the total annual savings of almost 700 thousand crowns.
OICT will further ensure data collection from installed meters, database operation and data analysis. Thanks to this, both the city management and especially the building managers will have continuous control over the consumption of energy and water. The capital city of Prague will be able to use the results of the measurements for the further development of the implementation of energy management in its buildings and its know-how in this area in case of interest by the city districts.
“OICT has extensive experience with projects focused on energy management and shares knowledge from their implementation. Very high-quality data is obtained through the operation of the technology of remote reading of energy and water consumption. On their basis, consumer behavior can then be objectively adjusted and energy costs saved, which is one of the key measures in times of energy crisis. The regular monitoring of energy and water consumption and the subsequent management of consumption, i.e. the implementation of energy management, is facilitated by clear and illustrative graphic outputs that we have created above the database. Deviations from the normal state will be visible at a glance,” states OICT CEO Tomáš Barczi.
Building managers can monitor hourly graphs of energy and water consumption to accurately assess the why of specific energy needs and analyze anomalies against normal. “Identify possible water leaks almost immediately, optimize electricity consumption and heat production efficiency for heating and domestic hot water heating. Regular evaluation of energy and water consumption, especially at the present time, is also an opportunity to adjust contracted energy parameters such as daily reserved gas capacity, distribution rate, reserved electricity capacity,” clarifies Stanislav Krňák, who deals with energy management projects at OICT.
Already technology for remote collection of data from billing and common energy and water consumption meters and also temperature data collection technology is operating at twenty-one properties of ten organizations, which is established by HMP: School of Automotive and Informatics, Weilova; Gymnasium Na Vítezné plani; City of Music School Prague; Jedličk Institute and Kindergarten and Primary School and Secondary School in Prague 2; Observatory and planetarium hl. m of Prague, City Museum Prague; Home for the elderly Eliška Purkyňová; Home for the elderly Malešice; Home for the elderly Chodov.
source: press release