Energetic dashboard: driving decision making

Abstract

With the ever-rising energy usage, costs for the current and upcoming years is exponentially growing and unfortunately is being manage with poor or non-existing management tools and/or methods. In Switzerland the energy management is gaining interests the last decades, especially in the public sectors where a mine of data to be processed exists, but sadly is not exploited enough. Consequently, data remains scattered into silos and therefore prevented from being correlated automatically. We believe that these data can be mapped and put in perspective providing interesting information and enough knowledge helpful for decision makers. This paper presents an ongoing experiment in Swiss municipalities to analyze the current situation and design and propose an approach for energy managing by dashboards.