Energy Monitoring

Measure and report energy consumption in general, and with relation to output.

The electrical energy consumed by equipment is monitored by Busroot in real-time. This allows Busroot to provide various functionality based off that data.

Productive Status Based on Power Usage

Where it is not possible or convenient to directly measure a productivity signal from a station, the energy usage can be used as a way to indicate if the station is being productive or not.

A threshold value is defined in kilowatts in order to exclude time where the machine is on, and therefore consuming some energy, but idle. Only when the station is consuming more than the threshold value will it be considered 'productive'.

Total Energy Consumed

The obvious metric that can be derived from the real-time energy reading is the total amount of energy consumed by an individual station over any given time period.

Excessive Consumption Outside Scheduled Production

In a perfect world, stations would only consume energy when they are actively producing. However often, either through necessity or habit, equipment can be on and consuming significant amounts of energy outside of production.

Busroot aims to help managers identify this excess energy consumption and reduce it wherever possible.

The way Busroot does this is by tracking and reporting the amount of energy consumed outside of production schedules.

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Energy per Unit Produced

The amount of energy consumed vs the number of unit produced for any given time frame.

Energy per Productive Hour

The amount of energy consumed vs the number of productive hours achieved by a station. This is useful for comparing the relative efficiency between similar stations.