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AI at the Service of Reducing Energy Consumption

Published on: 3 November 2022

Today, artificial intelligence is at the heart of energy savings for companies. We create virtual duplicates of your machines, called digital twins, to identify areas where energy and environmental efficiency can be improved.

Nicolas Duran, CTO of Dametis, provides some examples of production optimizations using our scenario modeling technologies.

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Measuring with AI to Avoid Overconsumption of Energy

The Dametis global solution addresses thousands of scenarios on the path to the Minimum Achievable Energy. Let’s be concrete. It allows creating “virtual blocks” identical to the infrastructures in the field (similar to digital twins), simulating an ideal operation for this plant based on multiple variables and needs, to visualize where the plant can progress in terms of environmental transition. Where humans cannot be omniscient, the MyDametis platform effectively and instantly identifies and alerts teams about improvement levers if the installation is not optimal.

These improvement levers can take various forms, such as:
– Renovating machines,
– Limiting unproductive energy losses,
– Training your employees to use available tools more efficiently.

Optimizing Industrial Processes with Artificial Intelligence

Take the example of bringing automotive paint booths to the right temperature, a case Dametis worked on during a Renault hackathon. The process involves pumps injecting outside air that passes through a heating system to reach the right temperature in the booth. The challenge? Knowing the time needed for the paint booth to reach its optimal temperature based on current conditions (temperature, humidity, etc.) to avoid systematically spending excess energy. This is where AI helps reduce energy consumption: based on compiled data from previously analyzed situations, the platform can determine in real-time how long it will take for the booth to reach its optimal temperature based on current atmospheric conditions. With these models, teams can manage their production line knowledgeably and adapt their process according to data provided by the MyDametis solution.

Monitoring the Evolution of Your Business’s Energy Consumption

Staying on Track with Energy and Environmental Transition

While Dametis solutions are valuable tools for daily operations, they also allow our clients to monitor their efficiency and performance in the long term: growing without compromising the progress towards environmental transition.

Over time, teams grow, factories invest and renew themselves… It becomes important to control environmental consumption to manage costs and limit the carbon footprint. Our calculation systems make it easier to visualize these changes and align them with actual needs to effectively re-evaluate the existing setup and enhance performance.

Detecting Potential Anomalies

In industries where services and jobs are sometimes siloed, the Dametis solution, with a well-thought-out measurement plan, collects data through sensors. We can then compare several similar situations to leverage one entity’s performance for the entire company. For example, we previously evaluated the use of a compressed air plant by installing tools to measure compressed air flow (flow meter), a wattmeter per compressor, and a pressure sensor. These tools allowed us to measure all parameters of the compressed air plant, and a flow meter per workshop enabled us to compare the consumption of different workshops. It becomes easy to compare each workshop’s performance and detect which consumes the most at what time of day. The goal? Identify potential gaps and try to fill them by observing another’s behavior and environment. Essentially, it’s like a game of spot-the-difference. The MyDametis tool is centralized, replacing the previous solution of multiple separate modules. All data is in one place, saving time and energy! Users are not overwhelmed with data, as they can access only the relevant parts, ensuring efficiency and confidentiality on certain topics.

Modeling to Verify the Proper Functioning of a Sensor Network

The possibilities are immense with Artificial Intelligence: energy is a resource we can work on in decarbonization, but the analyzed data must be correct. One possible application is using it to identify potential faults in data reporting, linked to a malfunction or failure of certain sensors.

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Artificial Intelligence for Reducing Energy Consumption, Reserved for Businesses and Communities

Modeling and artificial intelligence themselves consume energy. For their recommendations to serve the energy transition, they must enable significant energy savings. This is easily achievable for large companies and communities, but the process would not be cost-effective on a household scale.

Reducing Your Company’s Energy Consumption with Artificial Intelligence

There are many ways to use artificial intelligence to reduce energy consumption. Opportunities are not always easy to detect internally. That’s why Dametis assists you: contact us to discuss your installations and needs. Our experts know from experience where and how to integrate it to achieve real energy savings and will advise you on effective implementation.

Contact Dametis to discover ways to optimize your energy consumption!