物联网(IoT) enables power producers, public utilities, and other companies in the energy sector to collect energy power consumption data from hundreds of factories and thousands of homes in near real time. This wealth of information has opened opportunities to evaluate energy efficiency initiatives, predict power demand, and perform energy audits.
Consulting firmCadmusprovides full-spectrum energy-efficiency support services to energy utilities throughout North America. These services include studies of energy use that require extensive data collection and analysis.
To make the most of the opportunities presented by the IoT, Cadmus engineers used MATLAB®and the ThingSpeak™ IoT platform to develop a workflow for collecting, storing, analyzing, visualizing, and interpreting data from sensors in homes and businesses distributed across wide geographic areas.
“In just a few months, we implemented a new service that measures and analyzes temperature and humidity changes in dozens—and soon hundreds—of homes,” says Dave Korn, vice president of engineering at Cadmus. “Without MATLAB and ThingSpeak, we would still just be talking about it. Instead, we’re already pitching this service to utilities. That is a huge competitive advantage for our company.”