Buildings and Industry are the number 1 contributors to Greenhouse Gas emissions, and are also the biggest energy users. Achieving a reduction of 30% of your energy consumption is a matter of following 4 steps.

1. Measure - Effective use of energy meters and power quality measurements
2. Fix the basics - Addressing power quality & reliability issues, effective use of insulation, replacement of heavy power usage devices by low consumption alternatives.
3. Automate - Use of Building Management Systems, Lighting Control Systems, Motor Control Systems & Variable Speed Drives
4. Monitor & Improve - Energy Management Dashboards & Software, Remote Monitoring, SCADA

Crowley Carbon have partnered with Tridium and embraced the Niagara AX Framework to help deliver a platform for our customers to help them achieve and maintain massive energy reductions throughout their enterprises.

The Niagara Framework has been a major player in making buildings more energy efficient, reducing energy usage and driving down costs for over 12 years. Today, there are over 200,000 instances of Niagara operating in 45 countries worldwide in office buildings, manufacturing plants, mission-critical facilities, hospitals, educational and government campuses, military bases, hotels, retail stores and airports.

Niagara helps both small and large organisations integrate, measure, manage and reduce energy costs through enhanced integration and systems management and provides energy management capabilities for large campuses and geographically dispersed enterprises.

Built on an open architecture, the Niagara Framework merges multi-vendor automation systems and real-time integration into a single, extensible platform that monitors, manages and controls the power consumption of all building systems and drives energy efficiency and reduces energy costs. Niagara takes into account all critical areas that form the subsystems that make a building function including lighting, heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC), security, and energy management. It allows devices to share information with each other and streamlines them into a common system where management can control and monitor the buildings’ operations.

Niagara is a scalable platform that delivers measurable Return on Investment enabling users to capture the benefits of integration, automation and energy control of their buildings and maximise the value of information in real-time contained within them. Niagara has removed the barriers to assess the proprietary and legacy data from different systems in a facility. It is the bridge between systems and devices and simplifies the process of connectivity and integration that makes building and facility management easier.

In addition to integrating energy consuming devices and systems within a building and getting them to work together to be managed, controlled and operate at optimum levels, Niagara also includes energy measurement and verification tools options that allow users to implement the most efficient and sustained energy strategies in a building today.

As a real-time integration platform and automation infrastructure, Niagara allows users to deploy optimal energy and environmental management strategies that notifies about events before they occur and provides users with the tools to execute control such as schedule and temperature adjustments or activation of on-site generation. Niagara interacts in real-time, with the systems that control the energy consuming and generating equipment in a facility.

The technology also enables users to collect information and benchmark buildings to expose operational inefficiencies. From a green building perspective, Niagara allows users to capitalize on accurate and concise intelligence relating to the energy performance of a building in order to achieve lower energy consumption and enhanced efficiencies.

The Niagara Framework is a unified building integration platform and facility automation infrastructure that reduces energy usage and costs, improves efficiency and assists in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.