Are you ready for sustainable energy solutions? Utilize iDrawings Energy Module

The energy landscape continues to evolve at a rapid pace, and energy use is a major factor in building operations costs. It is estimated that the facilities are responsible for 50% of all energy consumption. Do you know the energy consumption pattern in your facility? A first step towards establishing an energy management plan, improving efficiency and reducing operating cost is to measure consumption and identify major energy sinks. Analysis of this consumption detail can provide the basis for investments in energy efficiencies to optimize energy use. iDrawings Energy Module management platform combines sub-metering hardware, facility architectural as-built plans; and analytical, user-friendly, web-based software to provide real-time insights into the energy consumption patterns. Major elements of iDrawings include a basic definition of energy consuming zones. The as-built plans are used to define lighting, heating, and air-conditioning zones, based on specific business functions. In addition, major energy consuming equipment in the building is identified on the various floor plans and the connections to specific panels are established to facilitate the management of sub-meters. Graphical analysis of real-time data provides visual energy use patterns, equipment alarm management, and web monitoring of equipment performance and failure forecasts. Energy Investment Analysis combines energy audits and data analysis to identify building specific opportunities for energy investments and significant cost savings for the long term. In addition, the web-based, drawing-centric iDrawings platform allows monitoring all institutional facilities from a central location, and sharing drawings and data with other facility management functions. The resulting iDrawings ROI may be less than a year. The iDrawings Platform is an Integrated Facility Life Cycle (IFLC) management solution. It is a simple to use, secure web-based system that allows managing all facility resources in a spatial context, coupling engineering drawings and facility data. Anupam Sachdev is CEO and co-founder of Indus Systems, Inc., Concord, Mass.