WAGES monitoring

WAGES monitoring lets you record and analyze all energy sources and utilities usage.

Your system may use several different types of energy. For example, you may consume steam or compressed air for industrial processes, electricity for lights and computers, water for cooling and natural gas for heating. WAGES monitoring collects the usage information from all these different energy sources to enable a more complete energy analysis.

WAGES information can help you:

• Identify losses or inefficiencies.
• Modify demand to reduce costs.
• Optimize energy source usage.

WAGES monitoring example

The following example shows WAGES monitoring for a water flow meter.

You can connect your meter’s digital input to a transducer that sends a pulse for every 15 kiloliters (4000 US Gal) of water. After configuring an input metering channel and assigning it to the digital input, the meter can detect and record the incoming pulses. An energy management system can then use the information from the meter to perform WAGES analysis.

A	Water flow meter (15 kL/pulse)
B	Energy meter with digital input 1 assigned to input metering channel 1 and configured with unit kL (kiloliters)
C	Energy management system with WAGES analysis capabilities