EMS portrait for Siemens Schweiz AG
- Company
- Siemens Schweiz AG
- Company headquarters
- Zürich, Switzerland
- Energy management system (EMS)
- Energy Flexibility Services
- Website
- https://www.siemens.com/global/en/products/buildings/energy-sustainability/energy-flexibility.html
Energy Flexibility Services (EFS) are digital services for the optimized operation of sites including on-site generation, consumption and storage systems (so-called assets), with the objective of reducing energy cost and CO2 emissions over the whole site. EFS acts as a higher-level energy management system using AI-based optimization algorithms, processing measured values, load and generation forecasts, dynamic energy prices and the parameters of the connected technical systems. The optimization targets can be classified into the use cases: Network Charge Reduction, Self-Consumption Optimization, Day-Ahead Optimization
General information
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| secondary target group |
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| no application |
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| Utility service | electricity, heating, water |
| Do Swiss customers belong to your target group? | Yes, they belong to our main target group |
| Other target groups | Infrastructure, data centers, airports, logistics companies, hospitals |
Functions for real estate
Offer for utilities
Specifications
| Interfaces to utility systems |
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| Commercialisation by utilities | Yes, without white label |
| METAS certification | No, certification by METAS is not (yet) planned. |
Compatible Components
| Electricity meter |
Standard offer available
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| Heat meter |
Standard offer available
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| Water meter |
Standard offer available
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| Inverter/PV system |
Standard offer available
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| Battery storage |
Standard offer available
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| Heat pump |
Standard offer available
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| Combined heat and power plant (CHPP) |
Standard offer available
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| Water boiler |
Standard offer available
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| Other heating systems |
Standard offer available
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| Heat storage |
Standard offer available
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| EV-charging station |
Standard offer available
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| Smart Home elements |
Individual offer developable
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| Other components |
All components that are integrated via a building automation system can be read out and influenced. Integration takes place via standard protocols in the building automation system and is manufacturer-independent.
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| Average cost to implement new producers (driver development) |
Not stated
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Technical information
| Operating elements |
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| Components of the product |
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| Interfaces to components |
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| Communication interfaces | LAN, WLAN |
| SmartGridready | No, a declaration is not (yet) planned |
| Integration of third-party systems to influence hardware | Standard offer available |
| Control and regulation mechanisms | Self-learning algorithms |
| Control of components | Centrally in a control box (local), Centrally in a control box (cloud) |
Intervals for data measurement and transmission
| Data measurement for control | 15-60 seconds |
| Data measurement for electricity billing | Every 15 minutes |
| Data measurement for e-mobility billing | Every 15 minutes |
| Data measurement for heat billing | Every 15 minutes |
| Data measurement for water billing | Every 15 minutes |
| Data transmission | Depending on the purpose of the data, between real time and 15 minutes |
Installation & Operation
| When purchased via utility | Installation by EMS provider |
| When purchsed via EMS provider | Installation by EMS provider |
| Duration of installation at the end customer | depending on project |
| Software updates | yearly |
| Softwar updates - how | Manually via remote access |
| Software updates - who | EMS provider |
| Warranty | In accordance with the GTCs for customer-specific systems, generally 2 years |
| Lifetime | Same as for building automation, major differences between IT hardware, software and control units |
Data protection and IT security
| Data protection guarantee | IEC62443-4-2 SL2 cretified |
| Data storage | Locally at the client's site |
| Certification of Cloud solution | Not applicable ( locally at the customer's site) |
| Access protection of ERM (App/Cloud) | HTTPS |
| Access protection of decentralized units | Not stated |
| Data security on decentralized units | Not stated |
| Protection of data exchange with peripheral systems and decentralized units | Not stated |
| Encryption of data in-transfer and in-storage | Fully |
Costs
Costs at building level
These are rough estimates. An offer must be requested for exact cost information.
The following use case was assumed for the cost estimate:
1 Multi-party residential building with the following components (excluding commercial):
- Measuring units: 20 electricity meters, 20 heat meters, 20 water meters (hot & cold)
- 1 photovoltaic system (with 1 inverter)
- 1 heat pump (SG-Ready)
- 1 hot water boiler
- 20 parking spaces, 5 of which are fully equipped with charging stations
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Of these, the following functions can be fulfilled:
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Of these, the following functions cannot be fulfilled:
Measure electricity meterMeasure heat meterMeasure water meterIntegration PV systemControl heat pumpControl water boilerDynamic load managementImplementation ZEV (pure data delivery - no collection)Data delivery consumption charging stations for billing (without collection)
| Comment | Use case not applicable, therefore Not stated |
| One-time hardware costs | Not applicable |
| One-time software costs | Not applicable |
| Other costs | Not applicable |
| Total of one-time costs | Not applicable |
| Project management costs | Not applicable |
| Annual costs | Not applicable |
Information about the company
| Establishment in Switzerland | Yes, we are compatible with the Swiss system: currency, tariff system, etc. |
| Do you already work together with utilities? |
Yes
With:: 9 utilities within Europe, number growing. |
| Other partners/clients | Mainly industrial, real estate and logistics companies, hospitals (not exhaustive) |
| Number of installations in Switzerland | > 10'000 installed systems Building automation |
| Number of installations in Europe (incl. Switzerland) | > 100'000 installed systems Building automation |
| Founding year | Siemens AG since 1847, Siemens Schweiz AG since 1894 |
| Number of FTE | Siemens AG approx. 320'000, Siemens Schweiz AG approx. 5'900 |