Abstract
Energy Management systems (EMS) have become increasingly popular for reducing energy consumption at commercial and industrial facilities. This paper documents the installation of his equipment in two buildings, one using dedicated wire and the other power-line carrier communications. The systems provide dynamically optimized equipment performance based on actual and predicted energy loads, using stand-alone microcomputers that can communicate via telephone with a desktop minicomputer. This hardware, in combination with customized software, monitors documents cost savings and encourages good, overall facility maintenance practices, Although the buildings in which the systems were installed are nonindustrial, the EMS hardware and control strategies as related are directly applicable to industrial facilities.
Wagner, J. R. (1983). Case Study of Two Alternative Energy Management Systems. Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu); Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu). Available electronically from
https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /94533.