AIT Smart Meters
The main objective of installing Smart Meter in the academic building is to monitor the building energy consumption and for identifying possible ways to reduce energy consumption.
Though the project was initiated in October 2019, due to COVID-19 Pandemic the installation process could only be started in August 2020 and has been under operational testing in Oct 2020. The energy consumption recording officially started on 17 October 2020. A total of 26 smart meters were installed in the academic buildings.
The smart meter records the energy consumption data in intervals of every 15 min. So the data can be retrieved from the E-smart energy software which is remotely connected to the ADC” s, on an hourly, daily, monthly, or yearly basis. Through the recorded data AIT target monitoring the consumptions of each school and other buildings to identify the areas where and how the consumption could be reduced. AIT is also working on installing the Solar PV system in near future, where most of these buildings’ energy needs could be supplied from renewable energy resources and a smart meter would help to monitor actual consumption data from Provincial Electricity Authority (PEA) and Solar PV system.
Below tables and graphical analysis below show the distribution of electricity consumption on the campus for various schools, Offices, residential areas, chiller plants, and various facilities on the campus. The objective of the analysis is energy waste identification and energy reviews to identify areas where energy waste is highest The percentages below indicate the consumption trend, the effective increase or reduction every year, encouraging the consumer to work on various energy conservation and efficiency options. Please refer to the link here for more detailed energy consumption of each building.
| School/Unit | Average 2020 | Average 2021 | Average 2022 | Average 2023 |
| SERD | 4.99% | 4.76% | 4.29% | 4.48% |
| SET | 3.86% | 3.64% | 3.01% | 2.58% |
| SOM | 0.31% | 0.24% | 0.28% | 0.42% |
| Admin & service units | 6.51% | 5.55% | 5.67% | 5.62% |
| Chiller | 34.56% | 34.60% | 32.82% | 34.72% |
| Centers | 13.27% | 13.07% | 10.99% | 8.07% |
| AITCC + Arcade | 4.56% | 4.11% | 5.39% | 5.77% |
| Residential area | 13.72% | 16.89% | 14.39% | 14.60% |
| Common Facilities | 18.21% | 17.14% | 23.17% | 23.75% |
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| School/Unit | Jan 2023 | Feb 2023 | Mar 2023 | Apr 2023 | May 2023 | Jun 2023 | Jul 2023 | Aug 2023 | Sep 2023 | Oct 2023 | Nov 2023 | Dec 2023 |
| SERD | 5.00% | 4.36% | 4.07% | 3.68% | 3.65% | 3.92% | 4.02% | 5.73% | 5.57% | 4.48% | 4.42% | 4.80% |
| SET | 3.02% | 2.71% | 2.58% | 2.44% | 2.21% | 2.30% | 2.36% | 2.60% | 2.51% | 2.73% | 2.50% | 2.98% |
| SOM | 0.33% | 0.30% | 0.30% | 0.28% | 0.31% | 0.37% | 0.42% | 0.48% | 0.45% | 0.51% | 0.59% | 0.70% |
| Admin & service units | 5.96% | 6.03% | 5.40% | 4.37% | 5.39% | 5.80% | 5.84% | 5.08% | 5.18% | 6.05% | 5.59% | 6.69% |
| Chiller | 33.80% | 32.97% | 33.78% | 33.99% | 36.01% | 37.59% | 37.30% | 35.33% | 35.21% | 34.63% | 33.39% | 32.64% |
| Centers | 8.69% | 9.18% | 8.35% | 7.87% | 7.96% | 7.57% | 7.63% | 8.22% | 7.61% | 7.31% | 7.61% | 8.79% |
| AITCC + Arcade | 6.07% | 5.82% | 5.62% | 5.06% | 5.04% | 6.19% | 5.89% | 6.16% | 4.94% | 5.23% | 5.85% | 7.38% |
| Residential area | 9.78% | 12.31% | 10.58% | 15.90% | 17.53% | 17.42% | 15.63% | 12.78% | 16.19% | 14.00% | 17.58% | 15.53% |
| Street lights/pumps/others | 27.35% | 26.31% | 29.31% | 26.41% | 21.91% | 18.83% | 20.91% | 23.62% | 22.33% | 25.07% | 22.47% | 20.50% |
