Greensense is Greenwave’s proprietary industry-leading energy and asset management software platform designed to monitor, manage and optimize energy consumption and renewable generation within buildings.
Greensense delivers a comprehensive solution enabling all facilities, both sub-monitored and non sub-monitored, to be managed within a common platform.
Greenwave strategically designs and installs non-intrusive electrical, water and natural gas sub-monitoring solutions to gather minute-by-minute consumption data across a facility.
Equipment-level data is instantly delivered to Greensense, where sophisticated AI-driven analytics power innovative energy and asset management applications.
These unique applications empower building operators and facility managers to lower operating costs, optimize and prioritize maintenance, reduce facility risk, improve occupant safety and reduce GHG emissions.
Reduce energy consumption by 5%-30% with better data-driven insights.
The AI-powered Greensense software analyses energy usage with equipment-level granularity. Each building asset can be evaluated for its contribution to energy consumption (kWh & GJ), utility spend ($) and carbon emissions (CO2e). With personalized support from Greenwave's Energy Advisors, facility operators now have the knowledge and tools to identify and resolve energy waste.
Optimization Example: This equipment-level energy report sparks the questions, "why is the lighting using so much energy during unoccupied hours, and why is one compressor consuming more energy than the other?"
Optimization Example: Asset-level data identified two high-usage compressors that combined to run near 24/7 without the facility operator's knowledge. With subtle adjustments made to the building control system, significant utility and maintenance savings were achieved.
The Greensense performance-based maintenance module allows equipment assets to be effectively managed throughout their useful life cycles.
Implement a Performance-Based Maintenance Program
Schedule preventantive maintenance activities based on actual equipment run-time hours instead of a traditional "every X days" strategy. The AI-powered Greensense software evaluates equipment health metrics such as power factor and energy performance to automatically optimize and update maintenance schedules.
Facility operators can now view scheduled activities and use QR codes to capture maintenance logs on the Greensense mobile app.
Greensense measures the impact each activity has on energy performance and equipment health to determine when the next maintenance activity needs to occur.
Predictive alerts are then established to provide real-time notifications of equipment health issues and potential failures in between the now-optimized preventative maintenance intervals.
The Maintenance Dashboard allows facility operators to easily track and manage preventative maintenance activities. Oversee maintenance team and external contractor's work by validating which activities have been completed on time.
The Greensense alerting module is a fully customizable notification platform designed to inform building operators when abnormal and undesired activity occurs.
AI-driven performance evaluation will detect equipment and building performance issues that need to be addressed in-between performance-based preventative maintenance intervals. Issues such as equipment short-cycling, energy consumption exceeding thresholds and significant power factor changes can now be detected and resolved ahead of costly and disruptive failures.
Emergency Lighting & Exit Signage Failure Notification
Greenwave strategically designs electrical sub-monitrong systems to instantly detect and notify when a single emergency light or exit sign has failed. Eliminate moment-in-time and error-prone manual checks of your emergency lighting systems with this significant enhancement to an essential building life safety system.
With energy optimization and performance-based maintenance implemented, we can now leverage asset-level utility and maintenance costs alongside equipment health metrics to confidently identify and prioritize capital upgrades.
Exact utility (electricity + natural gas) spend, as shown above, can be assessed alongside tracked maintenance costs to establish a holistic operational cost for each asset. By analyzing the health metrics of each asset before and after maintenance, facility managers can identify when maintenance activities are no longer effective. Combining equipment-level cost and health metrics, as shown below, provide a definitive list of prioritized capital needs, with accurate ROI equations to justify each capital expenditure.
With this data, Greenwave has established partnerships to deliver a pay-for-itself model that enables energy efficient capital retrofits to be self-funded through operational savings.
Greenwave integrates with existing utility and check meters to obtain minute-by-minute water consumption metrics, in per litre increments, all within one minute of consumption.
This real-time data, overlayed with equipment-level electrical patterns, allow our AI-powered software to decipher water usage as normal or if a leak has occurred. For example, a spike in water consumption directly aligned to the electrical pattern of a sump pump starting is a clear confirmation of a water leak that requires immediate action.
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Upon a leak being detected, notifications are instantly sent to suscribed building operators and facility managers. Greensense can be pre-configured to automatically trigger an automated shut-off valve (supplied by Greenwave) to immediate limit the damage until an operator can arrive to remidy the situation.
This insurance risk and business interruption mitigation strategy is now enabling our clients to obtain premium discounts on their insurance policies.
Greenwave integrates with existing utility and check meters to obtain minute-by-minute natural gas consumption metrics, in cubic feet increments, all within one minute of consumption.
This real-time data, overlayed with equipment-level electrical patterns, allows our AI-powered software to decipher natural gas usage across the building and attribute consumption to individual equipment assets.
As illustrated below, the natural gas being consumed (in July) is clearly attributable to the Unit Heater as its electrical motor runs at the exact same time as the gas flows. In this instance, a summer set-back schedule was corrected resulting in immediate utility savings and GHG emission reductions.
Alternatively, when natural gas consumption is captured at elevated levels, without corresponding electrical patterns (such as RTU motors or boilers), it is a clear indicator of a gas leak where immediate action is required.
Instant notifications are dispatched to building operators and facility managers significantly enchancing building life safety.
The Greensense conservation summary tracks the monetary and environmental impact of conservation activities that have been implemented, enabling energy managers and sustainability teams to demonstrate financial and carbon emission reduction results.
Accurately report Scope 2 emissions through detailed and verifiable carbon emission calculations.
Proudly and confidently engage buildings occupants on your sustainability journey by utilizing Greenwave's customizable public engagement dashboards.
Real-time metrics and sustainability results are automatically pulled from Greensense to illustrate wins in easy-to-understand language and with compelling graphics.
News feeds, weather data, corporate messaging and social media engagement can all be added to the storyboard and managed remotely.
