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What is the role of power monitoring and control system? How do they actually work? What are the accurate monitoring devices? what is the best method of profitability with power monitoring? And what is the method of controlling cost to maximize profit and how does it helps lowering energy costs?
A Power monitoring system plays the role of monitoring the flow of the electrical power in the circuits Across the plants. The highly and the accurate circuit monitors and the power meters are very well dedicated to the power monitoring, while the suitable and compatible devices are used to collect an additional information from the protective relays and the circuit breakers,as well as the temperature controllers and the panelboards.The Electrical data are passed over a network of data to a single or multiple pc’s.The task like retrieving, storing and organizing as well as displaying the real-time information of the circuit in a very simple and usable formats,are very well carried by the power monitoring applications.The data stored in such system are used to operate the given facilities very efficiently. This type of system provides a quality of data in such a format that is very easy to understand
Every POWERLOGIC monitoring device is a best example of accurate monitoring devise it comes with a multi-functional and digital Instrumentation as well as data acquisition device which are capable of replacing different types of components like transducer,meters etc,such system devices can be very well integrated with Square D’s electrical power distribution products. At last the result is a very well distributed network of a accurate monitoring devices reporting to single or many centralized locations.
The Electricity was to be considered as an uncontrollable cost when doing a business but now it can be brought under control through the use of power monitoring and control systems. Using usch system a facility engineer gains the ability of locating the trouble spots and helps to prevent downtime and also helps in determining the energy use by the departments.
The easiest way to maximizing profit in a business is by controlling the costs. A power monitoring system is one of the best solution for it as It allows you to know impact electrical cost and also provide you with the information to purchase electricity in a cost effective manner.The power monitoring system also helps in determining when and where the capacitors can be used,it also provides you with the information regarding power requirements to utilize the electricity efficiently.
There are several other methods :
- The demanding charges can be reduced by analyzing the difference between the maximum and the minimum readings as well as by reviewing the time and the trend plots of the data logs.
- Also the Alarms can be used by triggering them to warn incase the system leads to danger while creating new peaks.
- Even The power factor can be reduced to some extent with the use of power factor correction capacitors (PFCs). But to use these one needs to be aware of their power factor as well as the the harmonic content of the circuits.