BENCHMATA is an advanced system that can help utility companies, municipalities, local and state governments, and energy billing companies to automatically benchmark their customer's energy usage in ENERGY STAR® Portfolio Manager. It is the first commercially available system powerful enough to automate any organization's energy benchmarking needs. Software can put your organization on the
fast track for bulk benchmarking of your customers in ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager. It helps in accomplishing ESP’s goal to provide benchmarking of energy data on a bigger scale. It helps organizations create processes for automatic authentication of customers using custom id values. The system provided a powerful GUI to allow a user to create customer, building, meter, and space data and all related attributes in a straight forward manner. Even if an organization is small and you don't have automatic data feeds, you can still benefit from the BENCHMATA system. The system has a built-in table where you can enter your customers meter usage data and directly upload to ENERGY STAR and receive a rating in return. It provides the capability to read and store usage data from Excel (if provided), making it very easy. Now you can plot your customer’s building reports and other data received from ENERGY STAR directly on GOOGLE MAPS, using built-in satellite imagery. The system provides advance benchmarking reports and search criteria. Now you can see how many customers have what scores and track their carbon greenhouse gas emissions. The system has its own database. This is the first ever advanced system to put ENERGY STAR Benchmarking within reach of many utilities ESP's / municipalities, state and local governments. The system works with modern RDBMS like Oracle but with few modifications. It can be configured with your legacy systems or can act alone as a standalone system.
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Keywords
Automated Benchmarking System Automation Portfolio Manager
Validation/Testing
The system has been tested via live Portfolio Manager ESP account for BENCHMATA in ENERGY STAR Automated Benchmarking System Console for utilities, where BENCHMATA is one of the utilities/ESP.
Expertise Required
Energy benchmarking managers with familiarity with Energy Star Portfolio Manager is required.
Users
10 users currently, as this is a brand new software.
Audience
All utilities, municipalities, universities local, state governments. Whoever uses ENERGY STAR’s Portfolio Manager graphical user interface can use this to automate.
Input
Energy usage data for the last 12 months and a source to get data for the automated system. System depends upon scheduled tasks and needs to be on when the data is being processed / scheduled at a certain time.
Output
Automated energy usage data for Portfolio Manager meant for benchmarking
Computer Platform
Windows, UNIX
Programming Language
Powerbuilder version 11.5, Windows Batch files, Oracle 10g database, XML Parsing routines PBDOM, Google MAPS.
Strengths
The system helps in creating systems for automated or two way transfers of energy data to ENERGY STAR servers and Portfolio Manager and is a unique software available commercially to put benchmarking within reach of many utilities and helps in monitoring greenhouse gas emission statistics.
Weaknesses
Needs to be integrated with utilities' billing systems and thus requires intervention in the beginning.
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Availability
The Software has 3 levels, Level 1 is $25,000 per installation plus integration efforts. True cost of other levels can be derived after knowing the complexity of utilities’ software systems.
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