EMOS (Energy Management and Optimization Software): All You Need to Know
What is EMOS (Energy Management and Optimization Software)?
To reduce water and energy consumption in industry, we regularly hear about EMS software. However, in this field, adopting increasingly powerful tools is becoming a necessity to address the various regulations and challenges that weigh heavily on manufacturers’ daily operations: reducing bills, reducing carbon footprint, mandatory industrial energy audits, ISO 50001 standard…
EMS software (Energy Management Software) provides an initial response to these challenges. Nevertheless, EMOS (Energy Management and Optimization Software) allows for even greater energy performance. With more advanced functionalities, it enables users to achieve the attainable energy minimum more easily and quickly, and in a sustainable manner.
This is because an EMOS is an information system that addresses the operational needs of all departments within the company regarding water and energy management—cross-functional topics that now concern the majority of employees in industry.
This Energy Management and Optimization Software monitors, controls, and optimizes the production, consumption, and storage of energy and water. It is a true ally in improving manufacturers’ energy and environmental performance, complementing existing teams or serving as a genuine support for companies that have not designated an Energy Manager.
Indeed, thanks to advanced algorithms, EMOS transforms data into concrete action plans. Whereas traditional EMS software requires the expertise of an Energy Manager to analyze and establish a viable action plan.
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Usable by all departments within the company, EMOS integrated into a factory or industrial group allows for:
Reducing energy costs.
The software quickly and optimally detects deviations, advising you on corrective actions, allowing you to act within a short timeframe, thus avoiding additional costs linked, for example, to defective equipment. Furthermore, it provides clear insight into the optimal operation of equipment or production.
Improving energy efficiency.
Thanks to various algorithms and in-depth knowledge of your equipment, EMOS optimizes and improves control over your energy mix by making recommendations that consider your production schedule and constraints related to your energy usage.
Integrating renewable energies.
With information on your stored energy, you can quickly monitor the integration and use of your renewable energies in your energy mix.
Reducing carbon footprint.
EMOS recommends a low-carbon action plan, favoring the least emitting sources.
EMOS Architecture and Operation
The main difference between EMS software and EMOS software lies in its scope of action.
EMS software allows for monitoring energy consumption and reporting on KPIs with more or less advanced data visualization features. It therefore requires its user to be an energy expert (Energy Manager) to perform analyses and identify optimizations.
EMOS software also allows for monitoring. It offers users a comprehensive view of site data. This highly diversified data is linked both to control interfaces such as SCADA (directly within the factory) for process supervision, and to cloud platforms, thereby providing remote access to factory data!
Unlike EMS software, EMOS features energy optimization algorithms. This involves a combination of hybrid AI (physical & statistical modeling) and human expertise, which allows for predicting consumption, defining a scheduling plan for teams and optimal equipment use, and finally arbitrating energy usage within the process in real time.
All this data, processed by various algorithms, provides the user with highly visual dashboards and reports, facilitating the monitoring of energy performance, consumption, and deviations through alarms.
If this software offers such possibilities, it is partly because the data integrated into it comes from highly diverse sources: real-time consumption, production (photovoltaic, wind, production lines, etc.), energy data (energy markets, supplier, off-peak hours), and geographically customized meteorological data. All this combined data thus allows for personalized recommendations based on the site’s operational needs.
To offer such advanced functionalities that transform manufacturers’ daily operations, EMOS software like MyDametis is built on a hybrid AI. This AI combines both statistical and physical modeling and addresses the practical needs of manufacturers. Statistical modeling alone would not be sufficient. This is because human knowledge remains essential to finding the energy optimum.
What is statistical modeling?
This is a purely machine learning approach, processing an unlimited volume of data. This approach verifies and models the data, automatically highlighting deviations.
What is physical modeling?
Here, a physical behavior, a rule, an algorithm, and physical laws are humanly modeled. This modeling then interprets the data, allowing for consumption prediction and the identification of areas for improvement to reach the attainable energy minimum.
Advantages and Challenges of EMOS
EMOS software helps unite and align all users around an energy transition and decarbonization strategy. This is because it provides access to very specific functionalities (energy purchasing, demand response, cost accounting, maintenance and production data, etc.).
By containing tools that automate highly advanced analyses, EMOS software offers the possibility to:
- Achieve financial savings, by proposing the best operating mode for optimal production combined with minimum consumption for the factory.
- Improve energy performance and detect its best level, notably thanks to EPIs (Energy Performance Indicators).
- Reduce its carbon footprint, in a sustainable way.
It is therefore a powerful decision-making tool both at a site level and for an industrial group.
Nevertheless, it should be noted that such a powerful tool represents a significant cost and integration that can be complex. To address this complexity, training employees in using the EMOS is necessary and often provided during implementation.
Additionally, each plant is subject to specific local regulations. During implementation, it is therefore important to communicate these elements to have software that allows you to remain compliant. Finally, since EMOS processes a large amount of data, you must ensure that the software complies with confidentiality and cybersecurity standards consistent with your internal specifications. MyDametis, for example, offers a cloud with an encrypted and authenticated connection.
