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Smart Energy Management
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Driving economic and ecological sustainability
Climate change and sustainability are crucial priorities. You must reduce CO2 emissions, use less energy and water, and keep waste to a minimum. With GFT solutions such as smart energy management and GreenCoding, sustainability becomes part of your strategy. You can move towards a business model that meets your long-term ecological and economic goals.
Why focus on energy first?
Energy is a major cost for all manufacturers. But it’s also an opportunity to optimise processes and adopt sustainable solutions. GFT can help you build a sustainable business case that offers a fast return and permanent savings. Our digital solutions harness IoT to transform energy management and promote sustainable practices throughout your corporate network.
How can you quantify your energy efficiency and CO2 emissions?
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With Smart Energy Management.
Build a holistic, long-term view to gain crucial insights into energy use.
Start monitoring your sustainability performance
![Video: SPHINX Open Energy Management Dashboard This video showcases the SPHINX Open Energy Management Dashboard, a comprehensive tool designed to monitor and manage energy consumption and costs in a factory environment. The dashboard is displayed on a tablet, featuring a user-friendly interface with various metrics and graphs. Key metrics include average energy consumption, average energy cost, greenhouse gas emissions, current solar production, and fuel cell capacity. The video highlights the energy consumption overview graph, energy cost overview, and production overview, demonstrating how the SPHINX Open system provides real-time data to optimise energy usage and enhance efficiency in industrial operations. The dashboard also includes navigation options such as global settings, consumption details, cost analysis, carbon emissions, factory view, reports, and settings.](/.imaging/focalpoint/1800x1350/dam/jcr:afbc448e-a72d-42d9-a7b9-5763f2315d86/GFT-Sphinx-Energy-Video-Screen_1800x1350px.gif)
Cut costs, improve efficiency
Predict and optimise your energy consumption through real-time monitoring and control of energy processes.
Prevent energy fluctuations
Predict peak load scenarios and align your energy flows with the contractually agreed minimum power supply.
Control your CO2 emissions
Steer your business towards leadership in sustainability and clean energy with real-time visibility of key metrics and easy reporting.
![Teaser Visual: Use Case - Smart Facility Management This teaser visual showcases a professional engaging with an advanced multi-screen digital interface, displaying intricate system diagrams and data flows. The image represents the use case of smart facility management, where technology is leveraged to monitor, control, and optimize facility operations. The visual emphasizes the integration of digital solutions in managing complex systems efficiently, illustrating the future of facility management in a highly connected and intelligent environment.](/.imaging/focalpoint/1600x900/dam/jcr:746c0a3f-a157-4f5d-a172-048e59373d4f/gft-teaser-use-case-smart-facility-management.webp)
Intelligent facility management
Electricity, water, air, refrigeration and gases must be provided in compliance with applicable laws and regulations and in an economical and sustainable manner.
With connected facilities, you can detect deviations from the norm due to maintenance, usage or user behaviour, and react in real time. Our solution equips you to forecast scenarios and control your facilities autonomously, in line with your business and sustainability goals.
Park and Charge
Monitor, control and prioritise the distribution of available energy in your charging infrastructure to optimise cost and reliability for e-mobility services.
Energy peak management and forecasting models can be expanded for further optimisation as well as time and cost savings.
![Energy Management: Electric Vehicle Charging Station This visual highlights the concept of energy management through the depiction of an electric vehicle being charged at a charging station. The image focuses on the connection point where the charging cable is plugged into the vehicle, symbolizing the integration of sustainable energy solutions in modern transportation. It represents the advancements in energy management systems that facilitate efficient and eco-friendly electric vehicle charging infrastructure, contributing to a greener future.](/.imaging/focalpoint/1600x900/dam/jcr:42c0cc9d-132e-4fca-a0b4-7340cc8d9fcf/gft-image-ladesaeulen.webp)
![Energy Management: Load Management This image captures the essence of load management in energy systems. A close-up view shows a hand interacting with a digital graph on a touchscreen device, highlighting various energy load management metrics. The graph displays fluctuations and trends in energy consumption, essential for real-time monitoring and efficient energy distribution. This visual representation emphasises the importance of technology in managing and optimising energy loads, ensuring stability and sustainability in energy networks.](/.imaging/focalpoint/1600x900/dam/jcr:d69038c8-f674-4dc2-908f-330b604d1a7d/gft-image-energy-management-load-management.webp)
Load management
Monitor, analyse, optimise and control your energy system in real-time. The solution can also handle unexpected events with no reduction in efficiency. With optimisation algorithms you can avoid peak loads and unnecessary CO2 emissions, while reducing costs permanently. Load management makes optimal energy procurement and minimal CO2 emissions part of your business strategy.
Together we improve your energy management
A step-by-step approach
Take energy management to the next level
"Our three-stage approach offers a practical way to optimise and automate energy management. At each stage, you have an opportunity to collate more energy data and review progress. Once the system is up and running it can be fully automated, giving you freedom to focus on other opportunities."
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