(MENAFN- Jordan Times) Nowadays, efficient usage of energy is becoming a first priority for most business owners and government sectors, due to high energy prices and the growing concern about climate change and other environmental and organisational issues.
According to the Ministry of Energy's 2016 statistics, in Jordan, around 45 per cent of the total electrical energy consumption is used by households; 23 per cent and 15 per cent of the total consumption is used by the industrial and commercial sectors respectively.
The industrial and commercial sectors, whose target is to enhance energy usage but reduce operational costs to achieve maximum profit and enhance market competitiveness, need to manage energy consumption efficiently.
To that end, owners have to measure, monitor and understand what the key consumer systems are.
In general, industrial and commercial buildings, medium- and small-size specifically, are only capable of measuring the total building's energy consumption, with no effective means of estimating the consumption of the different systems.
Owners of many of these buildings must be struggling to reduce the costs incurred by the use of traditional procedures in the absence of developed, high-tech systems that help collect more accurate data regarding energy consumption.
Consequently, owners are wasting potential opportunities in this field.
To avoid that, they could make use of the new, promising, Internet of Things (IoT), a valuable technology that can be used to reduce operational costs, enhance effective operations and energy efficiency, and enable business owners to better understand their energy consumption and related costs, identify low-efficiency equipment, and analyse collected data for the sake of more sustainable future goals.
Energy conservation is not the only benefit business owners may gain when using the IoT; it also helps increase employee productivity and enhances their wellbeing and satisfaction by optimising the air conditioning systems, smart lighting and indoor air quality.
Moreover, the IoT-enabled systems are capable of connecting with other remote systems, as the electrical smart grid, which analyses weather forecasting and thus helps estimate energy demand by enabling one to follow procedural protocols that balance the power of the electrical system, and offer better energy prices to the consumers as incentives.
Since these IoT-enabled devices collect private information, maintaining security is crucial and shall be carefully considered.
The overall service must be efficient, functional and secure to guarantee consumer satisfaction.
The reasonable cost of the IoT technology, compared to other traditional automated systems, helps even medium- and small-size buildings.
The writer is energy expert and managing director of Green Tomorrow for smart sustainable solutions, . He contributed this article to The Jordan Times.
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