Project

Description

The general topics of JEERP are the creation of an energy balance and the optimization of the energy consumption for an enterprise environment. Hence JEERP can administer and monitor energetic assets to analyze, simulate and report the energy consumption. Moreover JEERP can exchange information or also optimize energy control according to the connected ERP.

An enterprise environment comprises diversivied devices e.g. information technology, building automation including heating or light control, various kind of industrial objects or may be a vehicle pool. Thus it appears that the term energy is abstract and don't stands only for electricity, but also for petroleum, gas, water or anything else. JEERP will observe and summarize any kind of energetic consumption from also different network topology and technology as e.g., domotic or company structures. The following schematic illustrates in general the context of JEERP and presents the gateways to interact with an enterprise environment.

Fig.: Schematic of the general topic JEERP

A device is an energy consuming unit of any dimension within an indoor or outdoor environment. A device can be active to communicate with or passive to get called by other devices. Its consumption values can be provided at real time or only as samples. Depending on the observed device there can be limitations to register the energy consumption. Some limitations rely only on the environment and others are due to the device itself. The devices can be classified as follows:

• The device can measure and transfer its energy consumption
• The device cannot measure its energy value, but can transfer
• The device cannot measure and transfer its energy value

JEERP will support the range of devices from including manually inserted estimation consumption until automatically calculated real consumption and provides several interfaces to take over the values.

The energy manager can access the data of consumption stored and managed in the core to build the energy balance for analyzation or reporting As a further step a simulation to make a statement on prospective trends are planned. A meta data server accomplish the communication to external application in particular with the ERP. With a well defined body of rules and regulations alerts transmitted by devices can be notified, interpreted and handled.

Components

Business Intelligence (BI)

The BI provides the retrospective, current, and prospective views of several business operations as reporting, analytics or data mining.

Configuration and Managment System (CMDB)

The CMDB configures and manages the energetic resources as assets, workflow and users.

Geographic information system (GIS)

The GIS maps the devices to its location or serve as an interactive interface to devices and its location.

Energy Balance (EB)

The EB represents the formal report of energy consumption.

Ruler

The ruler establishes a rule-based monitoring for the devices.

Cache Viewer

The cache viewer shows the temporary stored consumption of the collectors.

Meta Data Server (MDS)

The MDS organizes the contexts of any object introduced in JEERP.

Ontology

The ontology describes the relation between the objects.

Gateway (DOG)

The DOG is an uniform interface to monitor domotic or industrial networks.

Building

The Building represents the domotic network connecting sensors for home devices to an information exchange.

Industrial Plants

The industrial plants represents the industrial network connecting sensors, machines to an information exchange.

Vehicles

The vehicles represent an interface to register fuel consumption.

Information Technolgy

The information technology represents intelligent devices as computers which can be registered automatically.

Status

The current status of the project is work in progress (not yet published).

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