Overview

About Energy Scan

Track Your Energy Demands for a Greener Tomorrow.

‘Energy Scan’ allows a Splunk® Enterprise administrator and users to monitor, analyse and optimize your Utility organisation's Energy Load Profile. Connect your Telemetry System Feed/Logs to obtain real-time information to manage your company's Energy Load Profile.

Key Features:

1. Monitor Energy Demand in Real Time
2. Get Insights from Historical Demand Profile to optimize Energy Distribution
3. Geo-Analytics to obtain geography-aware Insights
4. Can be used to understand Energy Demand for various utilities including Electricity, Water and Gas
5. Connect your real-time Telemetry Systems to gain real-time Energy Demand Information
6. Data input can be as granular as end-customer level details to understand market segmentation and plan campaigns accordingly
7. Gain insights on consumer consumption pattern to optimize costs and plan Energy Generation/Abstraction in advance

Installation steps

To install and configure this app on your supported platform, follow these steps:

1. Click Download on this page. The energyscan.tar.gz installer file downloads to your computer.
2. Log into Splunk Web.
3. Click Apps > Manage Apps.
4. Click Install App from File.
5. Upload the energyscan.tar.gz installer file.
6. Restart Splunk.

USER GUIDE

Key concepts for ‘Energy Scan’

You can connect your telemetry system, logs and customer demographics to obtain insights. Below are the dashboards provided:

Company Overview:

1. Gain a high-level Information about the Energy Demand across the company.
2. Gain insights on distribution of Energy requirements. for e.g. Heating, HVAC, Lighting, Cooling, etc

Company Analytics:

1. Obtain insights on Energy Demand across various stations and geography
2. Determine stations with maximum demand based on time factor

Company Energy Visualization:

1. Energy Demand Insights through interactive Visualizations

Company Geo-Analytics:

1. Visualize Energy Demand on Maps and compare Stations

Station Monitoring:

1. Monitor Energy Demands in real-time
2. Understand current demand and peak demands
3. Gain Insights on distribution and time factor

Station Performance:

1. Analyse Station Demand using Historical Data
2. Understand Daily Energy Load Profile to gain insights on consumer consumption pattern
3. Understand Monthly Peak Energy Requirements

Station Analytics:

1. Understand Energy Profile based on various factors including Weekend/Weekdays/Seasons/Time Period
2. Gain Insights on consumer consumption pattern based on these factors, which can help plan Energy Generation/Abstraction in advance

Station Comparison:

1. Compare different Stations to understand changes in Demand Patterns
2. Compare data of a single Station under different conditions

Reports:

1. Energy Load Profile Reports - Monthly and Hourly

Custom Search and Pivot:

1. Use the power of Splunk to create your own insights

You can configure Alerts for any unual Load Demands

Configure ‘Energy Scan’

By default, Energy Scan; monitors the ‘input’ Folder for any Telemetry Data’ to import. Modify inputs.conf to change the folder. In order to add any more Folders,
1. Go to Settings > Data Inputs
2. Click on Files and Directories
3. You can add Directories to monitor where you can place your financial documents. Save it with SourceType = ‘PowerTMY3Data’

Example Use Case

A Power Utility company can load Demand Profile data within Energy Scan to monitor the load in real-time as well as obtain Profile analytics. Using the information, below advantages can be realized:

• Achieve Higher Operating Efficiency through better planning
• Improved outage management
• Voltage optimization
• Predictive asset management
• Detailed customer segmentation
• Possibility of Load Forecasting, Load Research and Planning