From energy metering to energy control
Metering brings insight, control delivers results. Two recent projects, at Corda Campus and Genteq, show how that works in practice.
Do you know where your energy goes? And do you act on that knowledge? Many companies measure their energy consumption today. Yet peak demand is still exceeded, reporting comes too late and costs are allocated in Excel sheets. Insight alone is not enough: the difference lies in what you do with the data. Boolean brings the data from all your installations together in one platform and uses it to actually adjust them.
Metering brings insight.
Control delivers results.
Two recent projects show how that works in practice.
01 · Energy monitoring and BACS
Corda Campus: one overview for an entire campus
More than 250 tenants, spread over ten buildings, each expecting a correct energy bill. That only works if you can trust the 620 meters on the campus, and each of them speaks its own language, behind outdated gateways and closed systems. Corda Campus did not want yet another dashboard, but reliable figures in the system it already uses to manage its buildings.
What we built
Boolean installed industrial PLCs that read the existing meters, whatever brand or protocol they speak. Nothing changed to the meters or the cabling. The data comes together in our Boolytics platform, in a Belgian datacenter or on the customer’s own infrastructure, and flows from there straight into Archibus.
The result
Today Corda tracks consumption automatically per building and per tenant, spots deviations immediately and invoices without a single manual meter reading. And because the same PLCs can also control, the next step is a small one: peak shaving and load balancing are a matter of configuration, not a new project. That is how the monitoring grows, step by step, into the building automation that the BACS legislation requires.
02 · Battery park and control
Genteq: an 8 MW battery park, fully automatically controlled
A battery park only earns money if it responds to the market fast and flawlessly. At Genteq, four battery systems were ready for that, each with its own controller. But the energy supplier wants to dispatch one plant, and the grid operator wants one party that respects its limits. Nobody wants to talk to four separate systems.
What we built
That calls for an intermediate layer that makes the four systems work as one. Boolean built it for Genteq: an energy management system on an industrial PLC that executes the supplier’s charge and discharge commands, always gives priority to the grid operator’s limits and keeps the cycles of the four batteries in balance.
The result
Today 18 MWh of storage operates on the energy market as a single plant. The park responds within milliseconds, day and night, without an operator involved. And in Boolytics, Genteq sees second by second what the park is doing: power, state of charge and grid limits, on one timeline.
Where is the gain for you?
Are you paying too much in capacity tariff because of a few peaks per month?
Do you know which building or department consumes the most?
Does your building soon have to comply with the BACS obligation?
Or do you want your installations to follow the energy prices of the moment?
Four questions, one approach: we start from the meters and controllers that are already in place, bring the data together on a platform that remains yours, and adjust from there.
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