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The 3Ss of smart electricity

Safety, Stability and Sustainability form the 3Ss of electricity. Any electricity consumer will first focus on ensuring safety. As the site becomes operational the focus shifts towards enhancing stability to ensure smooth and uninterrupted operation. Finally, in the longer run users want to achieve sustainability to not only become social responsible but to also lower operating costs. This transition that each user goes through is mapped in the lifecycle of the electricity consumer below. 

Figure 1: Lifecycle of an electricity consumer

How does POWEReasy achieves the 3Ss simultaneously

The POWEReasy platform is built to complement this smart electricity methodology and reimagines this journey from a phased manner into a methodology to achieve all of these simultaneously. Let's understand how POWEReasy achieves safety, stability and sustainability. Ideally operation teams are working at peak efficiency to support business outcomes in a seamless way. In reality there are bottlenecks that lead to friction. The typical opportunities for improvements are: 

The POWEReasy platform

POWEReasy provides an all-in-one platform to simultaneously optimize the 3Ss of electricity. At the core is a cloud platform to automate the analytics and reporting of electrical events. The platform integrates IOT connected hardware devices that are selected based on the specific goals for an organization. These devices are individually configured to automate the task of monitoring, analysis and  optimizing electricity

The various IOT connected hardware solutions such as the smart auditor, smart optimizer, smart DB and smart DB with optimizer are presented below. 

Figure 2: IOT connected hardware options on the POWEReasy platform

Adopting the POWEReasy platform

Adopting the POWEReasy platform requires a thorough evaluation of the electricity goals for a business. A consultation with a smart electricity expert helps define, measure and evaluate the overall goals. The smart electricity expert assist users through the following stages to reach the next level of operational excellence:

1. Engagement stage: The smart electricity expert performs a consultation to identify the key challenges and future goals for the business. The intention is to perform a value assessment that smart electricity can unlock for the business. 
2. Implementation stage: Based on the value assessment the smart electricity expert performs a proper selection and configuration of the hardware devices and cloud platform. Through this implementation process smart electricity experts work with the maintenance teams to adopt the necessary improvements and achieve the organizations operational goals. 
3. Continual success stage: During this phase the POWEReasy platform operates automatically to generate and send scheduled reports. These reports assist in
   1. quantifying the benefits from adopting smart electricity
   2. learn about minor corrections that necessary for preventive maintenance
   3. understand sources of inefficiencies that can be improvised upon