Web-enabled ION Enterprise® v5.5 provides all-in-one package for energy system monitoring operations, with analysis and control that help large energy-intensive businesses to reduce energy-related costs and maximize uptime. To enable deep integration within an enterprise, software offers multiple options to integrate power and energy information with process and building automation applications, including new OPC (Open Process Control) client/server functionality that can help operations personnel control loads and address potential problems in response to real-time energy information.
ION Enterprise enables energy managers to leverage existing infrastructure investments by freely exchanging data with all OPC-compliant devices and systems from companies such as Wonderware, OSIsoft, Siemens, and Johnson Controls. Communicating via real-time protocols such as DNP, DeviceNet, Profibus, Symax, Lonworks, and SNMP, it can support numerous energy-management strategies, including demand management and power quality assurance. Using process-control software, operators can incorporate predicted demand values into their workflow to respond proactively to potential demand peaks.
Together with company's ION® intelligent energy meters, ION Enterprise forms distributed intelligence network that can span energy assets of utility, industrial, or commercial enterprises with geographically dispersed facilities, plants, or substations. Highly scalable software and hardware allow systems to start small and grow as needs change.
