User Manual

Smart grids need smart buildings
to counterbalance the complex
interplay between power
generation and energy demand.
Highlights
Our smart building solutions:
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Building Energy Management
System (BEMS)
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Building Management System
(BMS)
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Building automation and
control
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Energy monitoring system
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Energy efficiency services
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Fire safety & security
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Comfort & energy
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Full 3
rd
party integration
Our upcoming smart building
in smart grid solutions:
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Grid gateway (bilateral data
and energy flow)
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Optimal load management
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Forecasting (consumption,
generation, storage)
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Integration of solar, electrical/
thermal storage
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Customized solutions for
individual requirements
ing’s supply and demand over certain
time periods. This type of energy man-
agement system enhances energy
efficiency, optimizes energy procure-
ment, and manages on-site energy
consumption, storage and generation.
It also limits peak demand and optimizes
self-consumption. Flexibility manage-
ment forms the interface between
operational management and the
energy and power markets with the
goal of lowering costs.
Smart buildings are “prosumers” (produc-
ers and consumers of energy) and are
therefore a potential revenue source.
Smart building technology is
in our DNA
As a subsystem of a comprehensive Build-
ing Management System (BMS), a Build-
ing Energy Management System (BEMS)
is the software, hardware, and services
associated specifically with the intelligent
monitoring, management, and control
of different energy types. The BEMS also
enhances a commercial building’s opera-
tional efficiency, regionally or globally.
Within the building, domain energy man-
agement covers various energy forms
such as cooling, heating, electricity, fossil
sources (e.g. gas, fuel oil) and steam.
– Cooling management system
– Fossil management system
– Heat management system
– Power management system
– Steam management system
Power management is a BEMS subsystem
that covers the management of electrical
power. While an energy management
system is defined within ISO 50001, no
definition of a management system
focusing only on electrical energy yet
exists.
Power management involves the measure-
ment and control of electricity generation,
consumption, and storage relating to cer-
tain optimization criteria such as improved
energy efficiency, lower energy costs and
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
We have extensive expertise in
the technology for smart buildings
in smart grids
A company must have expertise in both
building and grid technology to provide
smart buildings in smart grid solutions.
With its end-to-end portfolio covering the
entire energy value chain from genera-
tion and distribution to consumption, Sie-
mens is the only company in the world to
meet these criteria.
We provide concepts for new business
models that efficiently combine hardware
and software components to maximize
the customer’s value added through grid
transparency and efficiency. We bring the
two worlds together.