WANT to know how much energy your company is using and how to drive costs down?Green Koncepts Pte Ltd says its Koncepts Energy Management (KEM), which provides real time energy intelligence, has the answer.迷你倉 According to the firm, KEM, launched last year, is the first cloud energy management platform to hit the market here.Green Koncepts founder and chief executive Kenneth Lee said: "We provide to the industries what Bloomberg provides to financial market participants - real time energy intelligence."Essentially, the KEM is a convergence of intelligent sensor networks, smart metering, wireless communications, as well as information technology.First, data gathered by intelligent sensors and smart meters are transmitted through existing power cables or wireless communications to a KEM gateway, which can come in different physical forms. Capable of supporting appliances that conform to different industrial protocols in a plug and play manner, the KEM gateway then sends these data through the Internet to a cloud server. From there, users are then able to gain access to real-time information via their mobile devices or PC browsers.The KEM can be up to five times more cost-effective than traditional solutions, said Mr Lee in a recent interview.In the short term, setting up the KEM is non-disruptive to businesses because it does not require shutdowns or additional cabling works. The utility model of sharing a cloud server also rids the need for users to build individual on-site servers, thus lowering investment, maintenance and labour expenses in the long term.With the cloud computing technology that KEM uses, businesses and property owners with an international footprint are now able to consolidate energy data from various real estate - even those overseas - in a single location. "By using this cloud platform, we are able to stream these data centrally, and allow a centralised monitoring station to understand exactly how the buildings are performing," explained Mr Lee.Subsequently, the knowledge that energy is not being optimised would give rise to the desire for correction, which is why intelligent lighting controls feature as an optional function of the KEM.Green Koncepts will soon release a management tool that provides in-depth analytics and diagnostics on the performance of chilled water systems. This will allow businesses and property owners to optimise the energy consumption of chiller plants, which could come up to a substantial amount since air-conditioning alone typically accounts for 50 per cent or more of a building's energy consumption, said Mr Lee. Additionally, the product also has functions capable of churning green building compliance reports and tenant bills, thus giving businesses and property owners greater convenience in carrying out measurement and verification, as we文件倉l as tenant management.In particular, the KEM has the potential to replace mechanical timers in lighting controls, and facilitate the use of daylight energy harvesting in countries that experience fluctuating hours of sunshine.Yet, the KEM is flexible in that its functions are "modular by nature", meaning that users can purchase only the ones that they require. Mr Lee said that this makes KEM suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). "Most of the time, solutions are available only to the big companies with deep pockets," explained Mr Lee.To cater further to the local SMEs, Green Koncepts is currently in the midst of applying to the Infocomm Development Authority to establish KEM as a pre-qualified infocomm package under the iSPRINT funding for packaged solutions. If successful, SMEs that adopt KEM will then be able to receive a 70 per cent grant of the qualifying costs. Aside from SMEs, Green Koncepts' customers include big names such as NCS, Singapore Polytechnic and UOL Group Limited.On the whole, these clients have reported savings of 8-18 per cent of energy consumption, largely due to a greater sense of awareness and participation that resulted from the availability of energy usage patterns, he said.It therefore comes as no surprise that Green Koncepts has received positive responses from the market since the inception of KEM last year, and is en route to achieving its first million dollar turnover this year.Mr Lee has very big plans for KEM. He said that turnover is expected to grow exponentially to a projected $324 million as part of Green Koncepts' five-year outlook. He forecast that its current eight-man team will grow to 350 by 2018.The company has also ventured overseas. "We decided very early on that in order to achieve these numbers, we need to grow our international business immediately," said Mr Lee. Currently, Green Koncepts is working with regional partners in Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. Discussions with one Japanese and two European parties, which Mr Lee expects to conclude successfully by next year, are also in the works. He said: "On a global basis, we have a very large addressable market." This includes conventional urban spaces such as buildings, campuses and business parks, as well as newer ones such as data centres and smart cities.All in, the emerging urban sustainability industry is said to have an addressable market totalling US$1.3 trillion, based on third-party research reports. Mr Lee envisioned: "If we can even get one per cent of the market, we'll be a US$13 billion company."And since it has established a first-mover advantage in the field of cloud energy management, where there are only a few players in the global market according to Mr Lee, Green Koncepts could just be the next Singapore enterprise to make its mark on the world map.存倉
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