Plan a dashboard for energy measuring, improve overview of energy consumption, and increase energy recovery
Antus, William (2023-04-27)
Antus, William
27.04.2023
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2023042739133
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2023042739133
Tiivistelmä
This thesis is written on behalf of a manufacturing company, focusing on energy consumption, recovery, and management. The energy sector continuously changes through carbon emission targets and laws demanding action from companies in the transition to renewable energy resources. Therefore, companies target more innovative manufacturing solutions by measuring, controlling, and visualising energy consumption. Furthermore, the unstable and fluctuating energy situation, rising energy costs, and customers demanding sustainably produced products have enhanced the interest in energy questions at the company. Accordingly, the desire is to improve the overview of energy consumption, improve energy efficiency, and enable energy recovery through storage. Currently, energy measurements are limited to monthly reports based on historical data. This thesis attempts to overcome this by presenting a system providing all stakeholders access to real-time operational data. The energy management system with a dashboard visualising energy consumption and performance indicators could be used to plan production cycles, adjust product prices, and perform predictive maintenance more accurately.
The method used in this thesis is qualitative research through interviews with stakeholders at the company. Based on the interview results, a dashboard design is developed through three different layouts, customised for all stakeholder groups. In addition, the proposed energy management system enables visualising collected real-time data in dashboards. The theoretical framework in this thesis is a literature review of scientific research in energy management, dashboard design, energy recovery, and storage. Previous research in energy management presents several implemented technologies improving efficiency, reliability, and stability in the energy supply.
The thesis result includes an interview analysis, an energy management system, a dashboard design, and an energy storage system. The interview gives comprehensive knowledge to identify significant performance measures, experience, and interest from stakeholders in the field. The resulting energy management system is an IoT system with collecting assets, an edge platform, a database, and dashboard visualisation. The proposed energy storage system uses thermal energy storage technology with sand as a storage medium. This solution could be driven by renewable energy resources as primary energy resources and implemented to store recovered energy as secondary energy resources improving energy efficiency.
In conclusion, this thesis proves that an energy management system with a dashboard visualising collected energy data could be implemented. Furthermore, this thesis concludes that involved stakeholders effectively provide knowledge and experience in the development process of customised dashboard designs.
The method used in this thesis is qualitative research through interviews with stakeholders at the company. Based on the interview results, a dashboard design is developed through three different layouts, customised for all stakeholder groups. In addition, the proposed energy management system enables visualising collected real-time data in dashboards. The theoretical framework in this thesis is a literature review of scientific research in energy management, dashboard design, energy recovery, and storage. Previous research in energy management presents several implemented technologies improving efficiency, reliability, and stability in the energy supply.
The thesis result includes an interview analysis, an energy management system, a dashboard design, and an energy storage system. The interview gives comprehensive knowledge to identify significant performance measures, experience, and interest from stakeholders in the field. The resulting energy management system is an IoT system with collecting assets, an edge platform, a database, and dashboard visualisation. The proposed energy storage system uses thermal energy storage technology with sand as a storage medium. This solution could be driven by renewable energy resources as primary energy resources and implemented to store recovered energy as secondary energy resources improving energy efficiency.
In conclusion, this thesis proves that an energy management system with a dashboard visualising collected energy data could be implemented. Furthermore, this thesis concludes that involved stakeholders effectively provide knowledge and experience in the development process of customised dashboard designs.