Once power monitoring equipment is in place, you are still only halfway there. The next steps are commissioning, start up verification, certification of installations, and training of staff on the meter and software. You must provide your client with the ability to thoroughly understand the product and how to use it to pull and analyze data, download reports of every aspect of electrical power usage and power quality, identify where energy savings can be obtained, and bill tenants. Product training helps users by educating them on all aspects of the life cycle of metering systems, from installation to ongoing use. Your understanding of best practices, metering applications, and other relevant aspects needed by your client, help to make your project a success.

Submeters are a critical element for measuring energy consumption in energy management for engineering consultants. The installation of submeters has been shown to foster energy savings simply through the awareness of energy consumption that they provide, which promotes the conscientious use of energy and yields savings of up to 15%. Your clients gain the support of your tenants in reducing energy usage with the information received through submetering. And the Shark® 100B submeter has native BACnet/IP, which lets it fit seamlessly into any existing BACnet application being used to manage your clients’ buildings.