Chi Nguyen
John Mark Josling
Joe Lemberg and
Teresa Zhang.
With rising energy prices and growing environmental awareness, power management is a major concern for manufacturers across all sectors. Unfortunately, many manufacturers lack easy access to energy consumption information. Without this information, it is difficult to make the decisions necessary to save money. Our Power Gobi system will put that information in their hands.
We will use wireless mote technology to track the energy use of every machine on the factory floor and transmit that information to a computer on the factory floor. From this central computer and in fact any computer, a plant manager can instantly see what machines are consuming the most energy and the estimated cost of their current power consumption.
Plant managers can now pull up data on their factory's energy use from anywhere. They can use the monitoring software to calculate predicted energy cost as well as compare current data with prior months. With this information, managers can instantly see changes in energy use on a machine-by-machine basis. Energy strategies can now be evaluated in real-time and changes can be made on the fly.
It is estimated that over one third of the nation's energy is consumed by the manufacturing sector. With energy usage and production becoming an increasingly large concern for the environment and our economy, the market opportunities in this area are plentiful.
Power Gobi also offers additional services tying in current energy pricing as well as energy use legislation information to the user's energy report. Plant managers can also sign-up to receive alerts when machines dramatically alter their power use, in case it indicates a failure.
For a nominal fee of $10/month per unit, the Power Gobi provides a low-cost, high-efficiency replacement for the power-monitoring processes used currently. |
