Efficient and Comprehensive Energy Management System
Buildings are responsible for 44% of energy consumption worldwide. With a building energy management system, this energy consumption could be reduced by half.
The focus of effective energy management solutions on recording and visualizing all energy producers and consumers within a structure. In order for all energy flows to be visualized and optimized, a building needs a central control: the Loxone Miniserver. This connects all energy components of a building and ensures that they work as efficiently as possible – both individually and together.
Step-by-Step Guide to Energy Management System with Loxone
1. Recording and visualising all energy flows:
The first step of an efficient energy management system is knowing where the energy goes within the building, how much it consumes and how much it produces. The Loxone energy flow monitor plays a central role here. All data can be displayed in real time in the Loxone App.
2. Reducing basic power consumption:
Loxone can be used to find ways to reduce the base energy load, for example by automatically switching off unnecessary energy consumers. Common energy wasters include air conditioning or ventilation systems that run at high levels even when no one is in the building.
3. Shifting energy consumption:
With Loxone’s unique software, energy consumption can be shifted to times when energy is cheaper or even free – especially when solar energy is available.
Why Is an Integrated Building Energy Management System Important?
An Integrated Building Energy Management System (BEMS) optimizes energy usage across all building systems, leading to significant cost savings and reduced environmental impact. By intelligently managing lighting, heating, cooling, and other energy-consuming functions, a BEMS enhances operational efficiency, ensures occupant comfort, and supports sustainability goals.
How does an Energy Management System Optimize Solar Power?
An Energy Management System optimizes the efficiency of Solar Power generation and utilization by intelligently controlling what energy consumers are feeding from a structure’s PV system and when. For example, if there is excess energy generate by the system at a specific time, energy consumers can be automatically activated to increase their consumption during that time, thus use solar power more efficiently.
Inverter
An inverter, when integrated into an intelligent building energy management system, enables you to monitor energy production and converts solar power to electricity for self-consumption. Loxone’s home and building automation system optimizes the use of the generated electricity based on energy consumption data by either supplying consumers with solar power or selling the surplus to the grid.
Battery Storage
The Loxone energy management system adjusts when the integrated battery storage should be charged or exported depending on the level of energy production, the amount of power consumed across the building and the price of electricity at the time. This enables the efficient management of self-generated energy and reduces dependence on the electricity grid for day-to-day building operations.
Wallbox
Loxone shifts the charging times of your electric car so it’s charged during periods of high or adequate energy production (for example on a sunny day when the sky is clear) or when the cost of electricity is the lowest. Due to the flexibility and openness of the Loxone building energy management system and its interfaces, it supports various wallbox manufacturers and the Loxone Wallbox.
Energy Efficiency and Indoor Climate: Optimized HVAC by Loxone
Did you know that over 70% of home and building energy consumption comes from space heating? In order to achieve real energy efficiency, it is also necessary to integrate heating, cooling and ventilation into intelligent home and building automation.
Buffer Tank, Water Heating Element and Boiler
Integrating your buffer tank, water heating element and boiler into your building energy management system optimizes energy consumption and maximize the use of renewable energy.
Heat Pump
A heat pump integrated into a Loxone energy management system operates efficiently by considering factors like outdoor and room temperatures. Loxone’s forecast-based controls use weather data to ensure efficiency while minimizing costs,
Air Conditioning
Integrating AC systems into a building energy management system allows prediction-based controls to activate the unit based on weather forecasts and user behavior while presence-based operation maximizes comfort, efficiency, and cost savings simultaneously.
Ventilation
Loxone optimizes ventilation based on room temperature, humidity, and CO2 levels, ensuring optimal air quality while minimizing energy loss. Presence detection enables demand-oriented control for even greater energy efficiency.
Energy Management Systems for Intelligent Lighting and Audio
An energy management system oversees all smart components in a building, including lighting and multiroom audio. Loxone Presence Sensors detect presence and movement to automate these functions, ensuring lights and music operate only when rooms are occupied. This optimizes energy usage and prevents wasted power in empty spaces, whether in offices or homes.
Find out more about optimizing the energy performance of intelligent lighting and multiroom audio with the Loxone BeMS.
Opportunities Beyond the Obvious:
Renewable Energy Certificates
RECs assign ownership and track renewable electricity generation, allowing individuals and organizations to support renewable energy and reduce their carbon footprint.
One U.S. Loxone Partner uses large biomass boilers to generate energy and sell RECs, leveraging Loxone’s seamless Modbus connection and comprehensive statistical capabilities.
Find out more about harnessing the power of renewable energy certificates and how to get the most out of your business’s energy management.
Products for an Efficient Building Energy Management System
Miniserver
The Miniserver connects all energy components of a building and ensures that they operate in the most efficient way.
M-Bus Extension
With the M-Bus extension, you can integrate the leading interface standard for electricity, heat, gas and water meters via Plug & Play.
Modbus Air
With the Modbus Air, you can wirelessly integrate devices with Modbus RTU interface – energy meters, wallboxes, heat pumps and more – into any Loxone installation.
AC Control Air
Integrate and optimise air conditioning systems from leading manufacturers with the AC Control Air to reduce their energy consumption of your intelligent building.
Power Supply & Backup
The seven 24V outputs provide enough power to reliably supply all components in the cabinet and the peripheral devices in your Loxone instillation – even during a power failure.
Touch Pure CO2
With its integrated CO2 sensor, this switch monitors all the essential measurements necessary to help optimise indoor climate.
Belimo Tree & Air
The native MP-Bus integration, combined with the know-how of Loxone Partners, makes adding Belimo devices to a Loxone installation easier than ever before.
Weather Station
The precise data from the Weather Station – shared via the Loxone Weather Service – supports the intelligent automation of smart blinds, irrigation, storm protection and more.
Valve Actuator
The Loxone Valve Actuator is perfect for intelligent temperature control on a room-by-room basis, helping to optimise energy usage for zoned heating systems.
Room Comfort Sensor
This indoor climate sensor precisely measures temperature, humidity and CO2 (Tree) or temperature and humidity (Air).
Modbus Energy Meter
This single-phase or 3-phase energy meter with Modbus interface provides accurate data to support the efficient use of resources to help save energy.
Software for an Efficient Building Energy Management System
Energy Flow Monitor Function Block
The Energy Flow Monitor displays an overall view of the energy flow in a building. It visualises consumers, producers, storage units and the grid in the Loxone App.
Energy Manager Function Block
The Energy Manager Function Block distributes excess energy in the most efficient way through automation and, consequently, the onus is no longer on the user to consciously change their behaviour.
Load Manager Function Block
This Function Block monitors the current loads in a building via 15-minute intervals and protects against overload.
Spot Price Optimiser
The Spot Price Optimiser function block is used to activate a load in hours when the energy price on the spot market is the lowest.
Meter Function Blocks
Meter values form the basis of every energy management system. With our Meter Function Blocks, all energy flows are consistently monitored and recorded.
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