IBSOLUTION (KNX integrator) presented Multidomo Metering for energy consumption monitoring at FOR ARCH 2010 exhibition (

www.forarch.cz).  The exhibibition is focused on architecture, building industry, technologies, materials and solutions.  There were 812 exhibitors and 75,000 visitors during 5 days of the exhibitions.

Hager B & R has added Multidomo Metering to its product catalog as a cornerstone in its solution for multi-site measuring consumption.

According to comments by Craig Chapman, Business Manager - Automation for Australia & New Zealand, "Multidomo Metering effectively satisfies the demand of our customers for consumption monitoring and measurement software."

So far the most significant project installation for Multidomo Metering in Australia is the centralized monitoring of electricity, gas, hot water, drinking water and rain water consumption data within 88 apartments spread over six buildings. Hager’s Tebis KNX equipment is used to capture the apartment consumption data via pulse counters and then aggregate the data back to the Multidomo Metering server on-site. Tenants have access to see their consumption data via the Internet and to compare their consumption against the average consumption of same size apartments within the development.

These apartment buildings are owned by the New South Wales Department of Housing and this development is a landmark 5 star, Greenstar rated site.

Hager B&R is a successful joint venture partnership between B&R Enclosures, Australia's largest electrical enclosure manufacturer and Hager, one of Europe's leading manufacturers of modular electrical devices.

For more info: info@multidomo.com or cdc@hagerbr.com.au
www.hagergroup.com.au

The new version 1.3 of Multidomo Metering Standard includes improvements and new features.

Among the improvements should be noted that the graphic display in the Manager is 500% faster than previous versions, especially selecting long periods of time. This is because it includes improvements already developed for the Enterprise Edition, to consolidate daily, monthly and yearly providing better performance for chart representation.

It has also changed the chart window that incorporates several new graphics:

Average Chart: Average, maximum and minimum daily of period selected.

Total Chart: Total accrued daily of period selected.

Chart Today: Actual data for the current day.

Month Chart: Daily average of the days passed the current month.

Until now the Standard Edition of Multidomo Metering permitted to monitor a single location, the great novelty of this new edition is that it allows you to centralize consumption information (electricity, gas, water) as well as air quality (CO2) from different buildings of one owner.

In this way Multidomo Metering helps building managers make decisions on cost and consumption and design appropriate policies for savings.

It also facilitates the certification of buildings, fulfilling the requirement to maintain a history of the consumption of electricity, gas and water as well as the quality of the air and temperatures.

Communication with the buildings through the corresponding automation system's IP gateway. Multidomo Metering Enterprise is installed on a centralized server of the customer. No need to install or maintain any software on the buildings. Even each building can be implemented with different automation systems (for example an owner can have multiple buildings with KNX and others with LON).

This edition of Metering is based on web applications, to facilitate user access to the information and graphics.

Another new feature is it has a user Manager, allowing grant access to each user on an area, for example his apartment, and he can even compare with the average in the rest of their neighbours with an apartment of the same size.

 

If implemented in a chain of shops or restaurants, for example, each store manager could see the consumption of his shop, compare with history or even compare with the average of other stores.

New features:

• Multi-location (buildings)
• Management of users, permissions for administrators, integrators and users.
• Client Application are Web applications.
• Auto average totals, max and min cumulative, daily, monthly and annual.
• Comparison with averages by area.

After a year as a member in the KNX Spain Association, Multidomo Networks enters as a member in the International Association based in Brussels (www.knx.org).

KNX is the Worldwide STANDARD for Home and Building Control.

This movement is motivated by the beginning of its commercial activities in the international market, which will initially focus on Europe.