Combined technical and commercial data processing systems

Transparency in the company through complete energy and material balancing of power generation and consumption plants

Generation of variables for substantiated statements in order to increase the efficiency of power generation, distribution and consumption systems

Consumeroriented energy cost distribution and connection to the accounting system (e.g. SAP® R/3)

Planning reliability through a production-related load and consumption forecast

Support for the Purchasing Department in energy procurement

Fulfillment of legal obligations for the monitoring and reporting on greenhouse gas emissions (CO2 emissions)

b.data supports the current interface standards such as OPC, ODBC, ASCII or XML, whilst - in addition to the integration into WinCC - also offering direct interfaces to SICAM230, SIMATIC Powercontrol with automatic configuration adjustment

Preprocessing of energy data in a freely configured real-time accounting kernel including a formula editor for the definition and planning of new calculation functions (temperature-rise computations for boiler systems, ratings of CHP systems, etc.)

b.data Mobile for the mobile energy data recording including route planning for the meter-reading process

Automatic plausibility testing and generation of substitute values

Long-term archiving with versioning, compression and summarization functions

Measured value editor for the entry and editing of energy and operating values as well as for meter management

Trender for the representation of current (online) and historical curves (trends) as well as for target/actual analyses

Freely parameterized balancing of energy flows of various media such as electricity, heat, gas, steam and emissions (CO2) in b.data Plant Explorer

Determination of characteristic data (KPIs, efficiency figures, etc.) with direct reference to production (batches, quantities, etc.)

Calculation and allocation/assignment of energy costs to plants and/or customers/cost units according to the costs-by-cause principle. The bottom up (measurement) and top down (allocation) processes are supported

Flexible modeling of the hierarchically structured accounting in Plant Explorer

Rates for quantities, flexible price rating with rate and price time series

Transfer of expenses/revenues into the ERP system (e.g. SAPR/3)

Consumption forecasts based on production-related factors (production planning) and basic load profiles (typical days)

Creation of an energy schedule for registration at the energy suppliers

Freely parameterized Report Generator for drawing up balance sheets, reports, shift log books and invoices

Fully-automatic reporting system with task management, e-mail distribution and document administration

b.data Intranet/Internet Viewer (WEB Client) for accessing reports and results throughout the company