Greentech Lead India: IBM and Ingersoll Rand will
provide remote energy and asset management solutions to make buildings
smarter and efficient in India.
The remote energy and asset management solutions are
expected to drive energy efficiencies for organizations who are engaged in
infrastructure creation or maintenance for high growth sectors such as
commercial, hospitality, health, pharma and others.
This solution leverages IBM’s Intelligent Building
Management (IIBM) system along with Ingersoll Rand’s Energy optimisation
technologies, to help trigger preventive and predictive maintenance to create
Smarter Buildings.
IBM said buildings in India account for 30 percent of
energy consumption. Of this consumption, the major usage is due to heating,
ventilating and air-conditioning (HVAC) and lighting.
It is essential to drive initiatives to improve energy
efficiency and sustainability. In the current economic scenario, with rising
energy costs, organizations are facing capital and operating budget challenges.
Maximizing capital productivity requires increasing asset utilization,
efficiency and uptime. Similarly operating costs of energy and maintenance need
to be optimized.
IBM’s data analytic tools enable end user to monitor,
analyze and record various energy and performance related parameters. The
availability of such analytical data will enable greater efficiencies through
global benchmarking metrics.
With remote management solutions, the end result would be
a Network Operations Nerve Center that will monitor distributed assets, analyze
large amounts of data for actionable information and optimization, and
orchestrate operational processes. This would effectively manage customer
assets that drive energy consumption, from a single shared services platform.
“Ingersoll Rand has been at the forefront of driving
‘Innovation and Technology Convergence’ and to us this means bringing together
organizations and technologies on a common platform and converging them to
drive profitable sustainability practices. This partnership is a strategic
initiative where IBM and Ingersoll Rand are combining their strengths in operations
and management systems to bring end-to-end managed services to customers,” said
Venkatesh Valluri, chairman and president, Ingersoll Rand India.
“This partnership with Ingersoll Rand reaffirms our
commitment by using intelligent data to build Smarter Buildings that are
accountable for energy and carbon resource use, helping create a sustainable
environment,” said Nipun Mehrotra, vice president and general manager, Sales
& Business Development, IBM India/South Asia.
Buildings will become the largest consumer of global
energy by 2025, more than the transportation and industrial sectors combined.
Smarter Buildings are highly instrumented and interconnected systems of systems
– water, power, transportation, etc.
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