City Gateway Project – Part of a mixed-use development in Raleigh, NC
You Cannot Control What You Do Not Measure
A common practice of large manufacturing facilities is to track energy consumption by placing sub-meters throughout the plant for tracking individual machines, applications, or departments. Deploying sub-meters accurately measures energy usage for cost allocation or provides control engineers in coordinating the timing of equipment coming online for peak shaving. Sub-meters, as the name suggests, sit behind an electric utility company’s meter.
The AUTOParkit modular scalable architecture allows sub-meters to connect to a supervisory network to ease the gathering of electricity consumption.
Capital City Urban Development is taking advantage of this AUTOParkit capability at its City Gateway Project. The City Gateway project in Raleigh, NC, when completed, will have 228 automated stalls. What also makes this site unique is that the entire garage will have 100% EV charging capability using AUTOChargit and will become an EV charging hub for the local metropolitan area.
AUTOChargit EV charging stations are deployed in the AUTOParkit System. The owners can measure real-time energy consumption with a LAN-connected sub-meter sourced from the EVCS automated stalls. The energy consumption sources allow the developers to know when market demand is outpacing supply. A secondary benefit is another meter to validate readings from the collection of EVCS automated stalls.
Robbie Ferris from Capital City Urban Development explained, “Building a fully automated garage of this magnitude, coupled with one of the area’s first EV Charging Hubs, propels us to measure electricity consumption. Not only to compare against projections but to offer us real operational metrics we can use to make informed decisions on future capital needs.”
Siemens, a strategic partner with Dasher Lawless, provides a variety of sub-meters for switchgear, electrical distribution panels, and standalone versions. Each of these sub-meters connects to Profinet or other LANs to allow connectivity to BMS, SCADA Software, or AUTOParkit’s server-based Middleware.
Submeter Example: The Siemens MD series “High Density” devices are networked electrical sub-metering instruments; a series of advanced BACnet and Modbus protocol electrical power sub-meters. These meters are compatible with all BMS systems, being approved as a BACnet Testing Labs certified smart sensor (B-SS) device. The MD-12HD provides twelve CT inputs, equivalent to four 3-phase meters. The MD-48HD provides forty-eight CT inputs, equivalent to sixteen 3-phase meters. The Siemens MD series “High-Density” sub-metering platforms are optimized for use in equipment rooms, multi-family housing, data centers, and other high-metering load measurement areas.
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