Energy monitoring: reduce your energy consumption and save on costs
Energy monitoring: reduce your energy consumption and save on costs
Get real-time insight into the complete energy consumption of your location and the individual installations.
Get real-time insight into the complete energy consumption of your location and the individual installations.
What is energy monitoring?
With VDS energy monitoring, you gain insight into both your total consumption and the consumption per device.
We connect with your main meters via the measurement company and install submeters on critical installations, so you can see in real-time where you are unnecessarily consuming energy and where you can save.
What is energy monitoring?
With VDS energy monitoring, you gain insight into both your total consumption and the consumption per device.
We connect with your main meters via the measurement company and install submeters on critical installations, so you can see in real-time where you are unnecessarily consuming energy and where you can save.
What is energy monitoring?
With VDS energy monitoring, you gain insight into both your total consumption and the consumption per device.
We connect with your main meters via the measurement company and install submeters on critical installations, so you can see in real-time where you are unnecessarily consuming energy and where you can save.
Trusted by international clients
Trusted by international clients
Main meters
We unlock the energy data collected by your measurement company through a secure API connection. Daily consumption data is automatically received in the data platform.
We unlock the energy data collected by your measurement company through a secure API connection. Daily consumption data is automatically received in the data platform.
Submeters
Our sensors are connected to the main distribution board in your building or factory to measure the energy consumption of specific installations or sub-flows.
Our sensors are connected to the main distribution board in your building or factory to measure the energy consumption of specific installations or sub-flows.
Analyses
With dashboards and analyses, we translate measurement data into management information: trends, deviations, peak profiles, and comparisons (locations/buildings/lines where relevant).
With dashboards and analyses, we translate measurement data into management information: trends, deviations, peak profiles, and comparisons (locations/buildings/lines where relevant).
Discover which sectors we apply energy monitoring in
Discover which sectors we apply energy monitoring in
Discover which sectors we apply energy monitoring in
Manufacturing and process industry
Energy is often visible at the plant level, but not traceable to machines, lines, or shifts. Energy monitoring helps to objectively track consumption profiles and peaks and enables comparisons between processes or periods.
Energy is often visible at the plant level, but not traceable to machines, lines, or shifts. Energy monitoring helps to objectively track consumption profiles and peaks and enables comparisons between processes or periods.
Business park
Network congestion halts land development as soon as multiple companies want to grow at the same time. With energy monitoring, you capture peak profiles and patterns, so decision-making does not get stalled by assumptions.
Network congestion halts land development as soon as multiple companies want to grow at the same time. With energy monitoring, you capture peak profiles and patterns, so decision-making does not get stalled by assumptions.
Real estate
Data is often available, but fragmented and not easily comparable. Energy monitoring helps to measure, benchmark, and make energy data consistent for management and accountability.
Data is often available, but fragmented and not easily comparable. Energy monitoring helps to measure, benchmark, and make energy data consistent for management and accountability.
Main meters: analyze your total energy consumption
Main meters: analyze your total energy consumption
We unlock the energy data collected by your metering company via a secure API connection. This way, you continuously have one up-to-date and consistent source for total consumption, peak and off-peak periods, and historical comparisons, without manual export-import work.
This forms the basis for objectively monitoring consumption patterns and deviations and for having discussions based on facts rather than assumptions.
We unlock the energy data collected by your metering company via a secure API connection. This way, you continuously have one up-to-date and consistent source for total consumption, peak and off-peak periods, and historical comparisons, without manual export-import work.
This forms the basis for objectively monitoring consumption patterns and deviations and for having discussions based on facts rather than assumptions.
Submeters: measure your energy consumption per device
Submeters: measure your energy consumption per device
For critical installations, such as production machines, HVAC systems, charging equipment, and solar panel installations, we place VDS energy meters. This hardware sends real-time consumption measurements per installation to the same dashboard. This way, energy consumption is not only visible as a total but also traceable per branch current: you can see when an installation peaks, how consumption behaves during downtime, and where structural off-hours consumption occurs.
The submeter data is combined with the main meter data, allowing you to follow and compare branch currents and detect deviations. This forms a data-driven basis for internal coordination and decision-making.
For critical installations, such as production machines, HVAC systems, charging equipment, and solar panel installations, we place VDS energy meters. This hardware sends real-time consumption measurements per installation to the same dashboard. This way, energy consumption is not only visible as a total but also traceable per branch current: you can see when an installation peaks, how consumption behaves during downtime, and where structural off-hours consumption occurs.
The submeter data is combined with the main meter data, allowing you to follow and compare branch currents and detect deviations. This forms a data-driven basis for internal coordination and decision-making.
In-depth analysis for informed decisions
In-depth analysis for informed decisions
A dashboard full of numbers is just the beginning. With our analyses, we make peak profiles, base load, trends, and deviations clear and comparable over time and (where relevant) between locations or assets. We can connect with your EMS or set up a dashboard that suits your situation.
This is how you map energy consumption in a way that you can use in decisions about growth, electrification, investments, and accountability.
A dashboard full of numbers is just the beginning. With our analyses, we make peak profiles, base load, trends, and deviations clear and comparable over time and (where relevant) between locations or assets. We can connect with your EMS or set up a dashboard that suits your situation.
This is how you map energy consumption in a way that you can use in decisions about growth, electrification, investments, and accountability.
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Manufacturing and process industry
Manufacturing and process industry
In production environments, energy consumption is usually available at the connection or plant level via the main meter. This provides totals, but there is often a lack of insight into consumption per line, machine group, process step, or shift. As a result, energy is not a structural control variable in operations, but a recurring subject afterwards.
With VDS energy monitoring, you combine main meter data with submetering at critical measurement points. This allows you to objectively track and compare consumption patterns:
peak load and base load over day/week;
differences between shifts or production days;
consumption at the installation level (e.g. compressed air, cooling, ovens, HVAC) where relevant.
In production environments, energy consumption is usually available at the connection or plant level via the main meter. This provides totals, but there is often a lack of insight into consumption per line, machine group, process step, or shift. As a result, energy is not a structural control variable in operations, but a recurring subject afterwards.
With VDS energy monitoring, you combine main meter data with submetering at critical measurement points. This allows you to objectively track and compare consumption patterns:
peak load and base load over day/week;
differences between shifts or production days;
consumption at the installation level (e.g. compressed air, cooling, ovens, HVAC) where relevant.
Business park
Business park
On business parks, network congestion is often experienced as a collective problem: companies want to expand or electrify, but the grid is "full." In practice, there is usually a lack of a shared, objective view of:
when peaks occur;
how structural those peaks are;
and where measurement coverage is lacking to conduct the conversation factually.
Energy monitoring provides a data-driven basis to make consumption profiles and peak loads visible at the right level of detail. This helps to substantiate discussions with entrepreneurs, municipalities, network operators, and consultancies with facts instead of assumptions.
On business parks, network congestion is often experienced as a collective problem: companies want to expand or electrify, but the grid is "full." In practice, there is usually a lack of a shared, objective view of:
when peaks occur;
how structural those peaks are;
and where measurement coverage is lacking to conduct the conversation factually.
Energy monitoring provides a data-driven basis to make consumption profiles and peak loads visible at the right level of detail. This helps to substantiate discussions with entrepreneurs, municipalities, network operators, and consultancies with facts instead of assumptions.
Real estate
Real estate
In commercial real estate, energy data is often "somewhere" present: in invoices, (sub)meters, building management systems, or separate reports. The challenge is that this data is fragmented, not unambiguous, and often not easily comparable across properties. As a result, reporting requires a lot of manual work and a reliable picture of performance per building is lacking.
VDS brings energy data together into one consistent data image and makes it possible to manage at the portfolio level by:
consumption patterns per property (day/week/season);
base load and out-of-hours consumption;
peak load and trend development over time;
comparisons between properties using the same definitions and time resolution.
In commercial real estate, energy data is often "somewhere" present: in invoices, (sub)meters, building management systems, or separate reports. The challenge is that this data is fragmented, not unambiguous, and often not easily comparable across properties. As a result, reporting requires a lot of manual work and a reliable picture of performance per building is lacking.
VDS brings energy data together into one consistent data image and makes it possible to manage at the portfolio level by:
consumption patterns per property (day/week/season);
base load and out-of-hours consumption;
peak load and trend development over time;
comparisons between properties using the same definitions and time resolution.
Frequently asked questions
Frequently asked questions
What does energy monitoring specifically yield me?
Energy monitoring provides objective insights into total consumption (main meter), consumption per substream/installation (submetering where necessary), and analyses such as peak profiles, base load, trends, and deviations. This allows you to base discussions and decisions on facts rather than assumptions.
We already have energy bills and/or a BMS/EMS. Why monitor energy anymore?
Invoices are often rough and retroactive. BMS/EMS data is frequently fragmented or not comparable across locations. Energy monitoring brings data together, ensures consistency, and adds submetering where needed so you can monitor and compare consistently.
Can we also start with a pilot?
You can start small: first unlock main meter data and then add submetering only at critical measurement points to gradually make the picture more explanatory.
How do you handle my data?
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Curious about how you gain insight into your energy consumption?
Contact us and discover what VDS can do for your organization in the field of energy monitoring.