BelVis Industry benefits from the high level of performance of one of the leading software systems in the power industry. BelVis Industry and BelVis Energy work with shared components, complemented by specific business process modules. Together, they cover the comprehensive requirements of the market. KISTERS has successfully pursued the component software route for years and, despite the changing face of the markets, is able to offer companies a high degree of operational reliability without sacrificing flexibility.
Energy Data Management (EDM) is at the core. The BelVis Industry EDM module is specifically tailored, in terms of time series arithmetic methods, to processing the diverse range of mass variables and properties common in industry. Its implementation of virtual metering points allows free and highly flexible views of meter data. Add-on modules for cost centre management and sales document positions complete the specification for a genuine industrial EDM system.
Operating data management for site operators
The essential tasks of an Energy Data Management system on an industrial estate are linking operating data for analysis, accounting and billing, as well as generating automatic reports.
The operating and energy data required for this is transferred from upstream systems, administered and analysed. Ultimately it is a matter of energy balance, materials balance, assignment of data to systems, and ongoing calculation of key data. Both current and historical data is reported in graphs and tables. The automated generation facility relieves personnel of this task. After appropriate formatting, the imported data is relayed to the billing section.
IT support for these complex tasks is in line with the integrated component concept at the heart of BelVis, and requires a highly a scalable system. The basic package is always an Energy Data Management system which comprises all necessary functions:
User administration
Time series database
Time series arithmetic and virtual metering points
Data visualisation
Basic data maintenance
Calendar
Import / export
Consistency and plausibility checks
Load profiles
Reports
Simple forecasting methods
The top performance feature is time series management, based on the familiar KISTERS time series technology. The system features integrated client administration to manage decentralised customers on an industrial estate, which may even be regionally distributed. The time series arithmetic is designed for the diversity of media, mass variables, units and properties typically encountered in industry.
A quantity-oriented formula interpreter is included to generate free and highly flexible views. In this way the formulae access their operands depending on the validity/availability period of data objects, and do not require continual adjustment in this respect.
Taking the modular approach
Cost centre management and sales document positions - these industry-specific requirements in the context of Energy Data Management are fully-compatible BelVis add-on modules in the KISTERS’ component strategy. The basic data required for this is imported through a standard SAP SD interface and created in EDM. Metering points are assigned to account objects so that a distinction can be drawn between internal (cost centres) and external (sales document positions) account objects.
A quantity code allows the quantity to be distributed to several account objects at the same time. All acquired data is kept in a history.
The usage data is primarily acquired by sending out readout forms and receiving them back completed. BelVis COM organises the data interchange with external systems in an automated process. COM processes the e-mail traffic and files attachments in directories according to freely definable rules. The BelVis EDM itself reserves major capacities for data interchange - such as the basic data import facility for direct data transfer to the BelVis database, and the invoice preparation feature which closes the processing chain once the data has been transferred to upstream systems.
Consumption forecasts for planning purposes with regard to mass variables used in the process are the domain of the BelVis PRO module.
The BelVis WEB module plays a key role in customer service for the industrial estate. Resident customers can access their own consumption figures directly and, as an alternative to e-mail data acquisition, are able to enter their readout data remotely into EDM via the WEB interface.
