Increasingly automated building management demands continuous recording of operational data. Energy data help optimize a building’s energy efficiency as well as providing a means of assessing system status and network quality, thus creating the foundations for intelligent, automated, and reliable management of buildings and infrastructure installations. This transparency is ensured by the communication capable protection, switching, and measuring devices in the Sentron portfolio, which can be integrated into higher level power monitoring and building management systems. The transparency of energy flows in the building  and thus the identification of savings potential and cost control can be enhanced especially through the use of two device families with communication capability.

Continuous monitoring of power distribution can also allow the early detection and even prevention of problems that could lead to system failures. Alerts, such as for scheduled maintenance, help prevent failures and resultant damage, or enable faults to be quickly localized and rectified. This greatly improves the availability of the power supply. Multisite organizations such as hotel and retail chains or hospital groups operate centralized, standardized power monitoring. The Sentron portfolio also supports multisite monitoring, thanks to its communication capabilities. Energy data at the individual locations are recorded by the measuring devices and circuit breakers, collated and processed in the powermanager software program, and transmitted via LAN or WLAN to headquarters for evaluation. One of the many benefits: bundling procurement based on organization-wide energy contracts means that much better terms can be obtained.