PowerHawk Manager
PowerHawk® Manager is a complete Metered Resource Management System (energy, water, gas and monetizable derivatives such as Green House Gases) that combines automated data collection, powerful analysis tools and flexible billing capabilities with a “cloud-based” software delivery model.
PowerHawk Manager delivers as much or as little information as needed, at the office or remotely — 24/7. And with PowerHawk Manager's live update dashboard functionality, all stakeholders can be kept apprised of critical resource use information in a timely and convenient way, either on personal devices or public monitors.
- Distill meaningful information from electricity, gas, water and BTU meters to pinpoint savings opportunities, create an accurate picture of a building’s carbon footprint and identify failing equipment and expensive peak demand charges
- Track cost and accurately allocated to specific
building systems or directly to departments or
building occupants - Analyze resource usage and identify malfunctioning equipment with easy-to-understand graphical views of energy, water, and gas usage
- Manage your entire meter network remotely — including provisioning, alarms, maintenance,
meter configuration and firmware upgrades - Integrate with other building management and IT systems via flat-file or California Meter Exchange Protocol (CMEP)
- Encourage timely and appropriate intervention by providing every stakeholder with an appropriate view of meter resource usage through live dashboard and desktop information updates
- Gain company wide software accessibility with no upfront capital cost or ongoing upkeep charges
PowerHawk Software as a Service
Most multi-tenant metering systems are managed through onsite meter management systems, proprietary gateways, or dedicated server-based applications. Installing these systems presents obstacles to provisioning, accessibility, flexibility, and management.
With PowerHawk Manager Software as a Service (SaaS), there are no distracting set-up issues or deployment costs, no software licensing fees, and there’s no hardware to buy.
With PowerHawk Manager, any energy stakeholder can distill meaningful information from electricity, gas, water and BTU meters to pinpoint savings opportunities, create an accurate picture of a building’s carbon footprint and identify failing equipment and expensive peak demand charges.
Cost Communication
The arrival of time-of-use billing and peak demand charges means additional meter reading and complicated billing requirements. PowerHawk Manager handles these requirements automatically, so costs can be tracked and accurately allocated to specific building systems or directly to departments or building occupants.
PowerHawk Manager has a suite of tools for communicating resource costs. A flexible and powerful facility for creating rates and service fees can apply them to any set of meters in the hierarchy, right down to a single meter if required. A hierarchy could have a different rate plan applied to every meter if needed.
Metered resource reporting services
In addition to cost communication, PowerHawk Manager has robust visualization and reporting tools for monitoring and analyzing resource usage. Users can use their secured account to view reports through a standard web browser, or have customized scheduled reports delivered to them directly through email.
PowerHawk Manager provides the following types of reports:
- Resource Distribution Reports for analyzing resource consumption and identify opportunities for savings
- Resource and Load Profile Reports (with “what if” analysis capabilities) showing resources consumed over different time intervals for determining potential impact of changes to equipment or process
- Demand Profile Report for identifying resource consumption peaks and uncovering opportunities for demand charge reductions
- Power Quality Reports (voltage, current, active power, reactive power, apparent power and power factor) for analyzing the interaction of electrical power with equipment to identify potential power quality issue that may be affecting electrical equipment operations
Open protocols ensure a future proof solution
All PowerHawk metering systems use open protocols (including building automation protocols) to ensure users are not “locked in” to a single vendor. This open system provides the flexibility needed in an evolving smart grid. PowerHawk Manager also uses open protocols to communicate with other systems, using flat file Comma Separated Values (CSV) files, CMEP and other open standards. The power of using a SaaS solution is that as new standards evolve for the smart-grid, the PowerHawk manager keeps pace without any user worries.
Multi-vendor meter management
Many meters, building management system gateways, and meter pulse collection boxes produce CSV data files of a similar format. PowerHawk Manager can associate specific columns in a CSV file with resource parameters — allowing third party meter-points to be managed as native PowerHawk meters. This provides users with the ability to manage a heterogeneous meter environment through one simple, efficient interface. Triacta offers custom meter integration.
Integrating with other services
Web services protocols such as XML-RPC and SOAP allow SaaS applications to rapidly integrate with other services and solutions, creating powerful “mashup” opportunities.
PowerHawk Manager, for example, provides revenue grade analysis of metered resources while Building Management Systems deliver real-time alarm, control, and response of building systems. When combined, these solutions create a powerful “demand response” system that can efficiently manage resources while supporting regulatory reporting requirements and customer efforts to improve efficiency.
Live information update display of information
It is often a requirement to display a single meter point or aggregate of meter points (a school or office building) on a public monitor, or running on a user desktop (the CFO, or Energy Mandarin). PowerHawk Manager provides live update display of any meter (single point or aggregate) in a format suitable for public viewing. The dashboard shows actual use over a timeframe vs. target usage — with a concise table showing total usage quantities, quantities per stakeholder, total $ and $ per stakeholder.
Meter provisioning and management
PowerHawk Manager has built in provisioning tools to translate on-site audit information into appropriate PowerHawk meter configurations and installation instructions. When deploying hundreds of meters across a distributed geographic footprint, this is a key consideration that can result in big savings in commissioning.
PowerHawk Manager includes an extensive set of meter management tools that allow operators to monitor network health and receive notification of extraordinary events in the network so timely interventions can be made to ensure meter network health.
Powerful user administration capabilities
To properly manage metered resources, the right information needs to get to the right people at the right time. PowerHawk Manager has an extensive and flexible administration, configuration, and management hierarchy that allows multiple scopes of view and command.
Meter administration determines the permissions given to individual accounts — from administration level for the whole meter network to specific reports on a single meter. Multiple hierarchies for the same meter set can be created, enabling different view perspectives — such as departmental, tenant, property, or services provider.
Additionally, “virtual meters” can be created and fed by any combination or portion of multiple meters — allowing for the attribution of common resource usage to multiple parties.
UI Flexibility
As a web-based solution, the PowerHawk Manager user interface is decoupled from the application and data layer — allowing for rapid change and flexibility. PowerHawk manager can take advantage of advances in browser technology as soon as they become available to advance the functionality of the system and enhance the user experience. This also makes the application immediately multi-platform.
