HardwareICONICS Facility Analytics Improves the Environment
Customized Solution Provides Needed Data for Site-based KPIs and Decision Making
FOXBOROUGH, MA, October 18, 2008 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Today, ICONICS, a 2008 Microsoft Gold Certified Partner of the Year and provider of Web-enabled, OPC-based, HMI/SCADA Visualization and Manufacturing Intelligence software for Microsoft Windows operating systems, announced its new Facility Analytics facility-based analytical tool.
Facility Analytics is part of the ICONICS BizViz Analytics family of software and provides a set of pre-configured, out-of-the-box reports and data mining tools to assist facility managers in decision-making. The new analytical offering will work best when combined with ICONICS" new FacilityWorX facility-based visualization and control solution.
Such analytical reports can focus on reducing costs, optimizing load factors, decreasing fault response times or achieving overall better efficiency. Data can be provided throughout a facility from various systems and devices including standard environmental control, building automation systems (BAS), power/energy management, backup power/UPS/power generation, chillers, boiler/furnaces, security/access control/video, and fire alarms, just to name a few.
"Facility Analytics offers actionable intelligence that helps customers make better decisions for the future," said Russ Agrusa, President and CEO of ICONICS. "This information will allow users to reduce energy consumption, aggregate and summarize energy usage by location, and forecast energy costs over time. Facility managers have been waiting for a tool that will help provide detailed insight into how their facility truly functions."
Due to the skyrocketing costs of energy, the need for such a solution has never been greater. Facility Analytics helps companies to become more "green" and reduce their overall carbon footprint through optimizations made to energy consumption. It can also assist companies in meeting LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) standards for the operation of green buildings.
"Facility Managers require additional analytical and reporting tools to assist them in making critical decisions that can have major repercussions on both managing energy costs as well as monitoring and controlling security," said Craig Resnick, Research Director at ARC Advisory Group. "For these analytical tools to be most effective, they must have the capability to analyze the multiple sources of data that are required to help run an entire facility as well as to embrace a high level of collaboration between systems that combine visualization, alarm management, scheduling, reporting and analysis. Facility Analytics appears to meet this collaboration capability objective, especially when leveraged with FacilityWorX and other ICONICS software solutions."
ICONICS solutions are widely recognized in the industrial automation software marketplace. Used in a wide variety of applications worldwide, ICONICS" GENESIS64 , BizViz and GENESIS32 products are recognized for their graphical capabilities and seamless integration with Microsoft operating systems and applications, bridging information from "the shop floor to the top floor."
ICONICS has provided award-winning industrial automation and Manufacturing Intelligence software for over 22 years, successfully deploying more than 225,000 solutions worldwide.