New V10.8 Energy and Facility AnalytiX® Software

Jan. 29, 2013 - PRLog -- Dallas, TX – AHR Expo 2013, Booth #879 – ICONICS, the Microsoft® 2012 Sustainability Partner of the Year and a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, announces its new version 10.8 of Energy AnalytiX® and Facility AnalytiX® software solutions. The AnalytiX software suite is an advanced solution that continuously monitors and analyzes energy Cost, Consumption and the discharge of Carbon into the environment. ICONICS solutions are based on industry standards such as BACnet, OPC UA, SNMP and Modbus. The company has achieved BACnet Certification to guarantee seamless interoperability and operation with a wide variety of new or existing BMS systems, energy meters and electrical monitoring systems.

Facility AnalytiX, is an advanced Fault Detection and Diagnostic (FDD) software solution. It is an off-the-shelf product that uniquely provides continuous commissioning capabilities for any building automation or large campus real estate project. Its FDD Rules Engine is easy to configure and set up to help detect energy and operational inefficiencies. The FDD advanced visualization and diagnostics technology quickly recommends the possible cause and probability for the fault and also presents the costs associated with the detected fault condition. Facility AnalytiX has a fast ROI and payback and continuously monitors for optimal performance, greatly reducing energy costs.

Energy AnalytiX delivers the insight that facility managers need to take decisive action, to reduce and manage utility costs, and to minimize their carbon footprint. Energy AnalytiX provides an easy-to-deploy calculation, aggregation, analysis and visualization toolset. It is unique in that it not only integrates with all metering data, but can also integrate with all building automation systems, lighting systems, security/access control and IT data, and aggregates and correlates to find relationships that affect energy use. Release 10.8 expands Energy AnalytiX to include reporting and integration with the DOE Energy Star program. Using established DOE public Web services, customers can now log data, trend and compare their Energy Star ratings, and automatically upload their energy usage to maintain their Energy Star ratings.

"Energy and Facility AnalytiX provide a global view of the enterprise, and empower users to drill down to individual zones for pinpoint analysis,” said Melissa Topp, Product Marketing Manager at ICONICS. “The real power of the solutions is how data can be normalized by correlating variables, such as units of production, so that the information presented is always comparative and meaningful in a context that makes sense.”
Users can create custom KPIs and visualization dashboards, as well as specialized reports using Energy or Facility AnalytiX. Operators can be notified of energy issues or faults via SMS, email, phone alerts or other popular multimedia methods.

Energy and Facility AnalytiX version 10.8 make significant improvements to reduce engineering time and provide additional dashboard options, with the following:

PortalWorX™ – Simple-to-configure dashboard technology that delivers the world’s leading visualization to any Web browser. Based on Microsoft SharePoint® and Silverlight® technology, PortalWorX™ provides customizable layouts, KPIs, GEO SCADA, charting, Excel grids, alarming, reports and many other dashboard Web parts.

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ICONICS Background Information

ICONICS, a Microsoft award winning, Gold Certified Partner of the Year, provides solutions to improve productivity, reduce integration time and operating costs and optimize asset utilization with visualization and automation software. Founded in 1986, ICONICS has 250,000 installations in over 60 countries worldwide. ICONICS meets the demanding application challenges of the automotive, building automation, food and beverage, government infrastructure, manufacturing, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, renewable energy, utilities and water/wastewater industries. As a managed Microsoft ISV Partner, ICONICS designs its solutions to leverage Microsoft technologies, including multiple Windows platforms (including Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012), Microsoft .NET, Silverlight, SQL and SharePoint Portal Server. ICONICS is the honored recipient of multiple Microsoft awards and achievements.

© 2013 ICONICS, Inc. All rights reserved. GENESIS64, Energy AnaltyiX, PortalWorX, and FDDWorX and their respective modules, OPC-To-The-Core, and Visualize Your Enterprise are trademarks of ICONICS Inc. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.