energy
Get a full view of energy consumption and patterns across your enterprise
Written by Chris O'Connor | October 9, 2018 | Buildings
Welcome to a new edition of our Get Connected series. In my last blog, I talked about facilities management and improving your building’s operations. Today, I am going to continue on the buildings theme and discuss a hot topic for any building owner or occupant: energy consumption. Do you know your building’s current and expected ...read more
How to make your buildings more energy friendly
Written by Anthony Behan | July 12, 2018 | Buildings, Energy and Utilities
‘Architecture, we imagine, is permanent,’ wrote Stewart Brand in his 1994 book How Buildings Learn. ‘And so our buildings thwart us. Because they discount time, they misuse time.’ We live, work and engage with the world in buildings, and as we grow and evolve, so too do the buildings around us. They age and bits ...read more
Using AI to learn your buildings’ energy behavior
Written by Watson IoT Staff | June 27, 2018 | Buildings
Buildings are a central part of the world today. We live, work and play in them. We socialize, learn and engage in them. In fact, it’s estimated that we spend 93% of our time in buildings. Of course, buildings don’t remain static once the builder hands over the keys – their uses, occupants and components ...read more
Digital Twin of the Month: How turbines are taking over Texas
Written by Matthew Mikell | December 19, 2017 | Blog, Digital Twin
Our digital twin story this month is that of a wind turbine, used around the world to develop clean and sustainable energy; on some days it might even be free. During October storms in Germany these turbines “generated enough wind power at the weekend to give consumers free energy,” meaning costs fell below zero where producers had to ...read more
How SunCoke Energy minimizes downtime to fuel their customers with coke, coal, and power.
Written by Sarah Dudley | August 2, 2017 | Asset Management, Events
As technology reaches every corner of the globe, the world becomes more instrumented, interconnected, and intelligent than ever before. While companies in every industry now have the potential to achieve new levels of digital transformation, energy companies, in particular, are showing increased investments in analytics, mobile, and Internet of Things capabilities to help reduce costs, ...read more
Improve asset management and avoid equipment failure
Written by Ron Wallace | June 1, 2017 | Asset Management
The power of Maximo Predict and prevent the failure of power plant assets and equipment, improve management, service levels and lower operating costs. Use case: Increase operating efficiency and avoid equipment failure Automated, company-wide asset management is helping this power generation company increase operating efficiency, which helps provide better, more reliable power-generation services to its ...read more
Energy & Utilities: Transforming in an era of disruption
Written by Karen Lewis | May 15, 2017 | Asset Management
Energy and utility providers face major disruptions to their business models, revenue streams and regulatory relationships. These challenges are unparalleled in their history. They demand agility on the part of the utilities to survive and thrive through this era. Industry trends influencing operational and investment planning decisions As a result of improving technologies and emerging ...read more
Cognitive energy with Woodside
Written by Karen Lewis | April 27, 2017 | Events
Woodside, Australia’s largest independent oil and gas company, is scaling the knowledge of engineers working in control rooms 70 miles offshore. Recognized globally for their success in oil exploration, development, production and supply, this 62-year-old organization has been breaking ground for years, and not just with their drilling rigs. The strategy behind Woodside’s success is in ...read more