Offices, colleges, malls and government buildings already pay for a supply, a backup and often rooftop solar. Ingro EMS-CB runs the battery, solar, the generator, the meters and the BMS as one system, so the building stays on through every interruption and its bill comes down between them.
Once for continuity that sits idle between outages, and again for a bill set by time-of-day rates and its highest demand. One controller can make the same equipment do both jobs.
Lifts, laboratories, lighting and servers cannot drop when supply is interrupted. Today that protection is a cost that sits idle between events and earns nothing.
The building pays time-of-day rates and a demand charge set by the highest demand its meter records. A battery that is already there for backup can work both, above a reserve it never touches.
It decides, moment to moment, which source carries the building's load: rooftop solar, the battery, the supply or a generator. Ingro EMS-CB keeps the building on line through supply failures, uses solar in the building first, works the battery against the tariff and the demand limit, and reads every meter and the building management system as it goes.
Ingro EMS-CB is an energy management system for occupied commercial buildings. It runs the battery, the incoming supply and, where the building has them, rooftop solar and a diesel generator as one system, reading every meter and the building management system as it goes.
Runs at: Office · Government office · School · College · Mall · Hotel · Housing society
Battery + supply · with or without solar and a generator
Most buildings already own the equipment. What they lack is one controller deciding which part carries the load.
Storage held only for outages earns nothing between them, while the building keeps paying peak rates and its demand charge.
Without a battery in front of it, every supply interruption starts the engine, however short: fuel, run hours and maintenance for a few minutes of cover.
Midday surplus from the roof leaves at the feed-in rate, and the evening peak is bought back at the peak tariff.
Cooling, pumps and lighting run to their own schedules, blind to the tariff window and to the demand limit the building is billed on.
Pick a moment. The parts lit green are carrying the building.
Rooftop solar carries as much of the building as it can. Its surplus charges the battery instead of leaving at the feed-in rate, and the supply carries only the balance.
The split is a setting on the same hardware, not two batteries.
The reserve floor is revised as the building accumulates its own data. Equipment that cannot tolerate any break keeps its own UPS, with the battery carrying the building behind it.
The hardware is the same in each. What differs is the size of the reserve and whether solar or a generator is present, which are settings.
Lifts, servers and lighting through every interruption, and a demand charge set by the working day.
The EMS: A reserve sized to a changeover; the rest of the battery works the tariff.
EMS-CBBuildings that must stay open whatever the supply does.
The EMS: A larger reserve held back for continuity, on the same controller.
EMS-CBLaboratories and lighting through the day, and roofs that suit solar.
The EMS: Rooftop solar used on campus first, its surplus stored for the evening.
EMS-CBLong hours and heavy cooling, with a peak that meets the costliest tariff window.
The EMS: Demand held below its ceiling, and flexible cooling loads moved out of the peak through the BMS.
EMS-CBLifts, pumps and common lighting, often with rooftop solar on the blocks.
The EMS: Solar stored instead of exported, and common services carried through an outage.
EMS-CBCritical sites are run on the critical power package, with the generator sequenced behind the battery.
The EMS: Battery takes every outage first; the engine starts only if it must.
EMS-CP: critical powerBattery + supply · with or without solar and a generator. Integration is confirmed against your equipment list during discovery.
The incoming revenue meter and sub-meters on feeders, tenants and large loads, read every cycle, so control and the bill work from the same numbers.
Read over Modbus or OPC-UA, or through a gateway. Where you allow it, flexible loads such as pre-cooling and pumps are moved out of peak windows.
Cell limits, state of charge and state of health read every cycle, and the power conversion system dispatched inside them.
Any make that accepts a remote active-power limit, over Modbus or SunSpec, so solar is held back only when it has to be.
Start authority and a load setpoint on the DG controller or AMF panel, with warm-up, cool-down and minimum load held as hard limits.
Changeover switches, feeder breakers and relays through digital I/O and dry contacts, for transfer and for dropping nominated circuits.
Ingro scopes, models, commissions and supports the system, or supplies the EMS to the EPC building yours.
What exists, what has been ordered, and the outcomes the plant is required to deliver. One schedule and one conversation.
Written against those outcomes, so that the plant is capable of what has been asked of it.
Your asset counts, loads, tariff and load profile are run against a full simulation of the site before equipment ships, including adverse conditions. Behaviour is reviewed and revised at this stage.
Wired, configured and tested against the site's own values, with the results recorded.
Personnel trained, the reporting suite in service, and a defined route for support thereafter.
8 questions
It decides, moment to moment, which source carries the building's load: rooftop solar, the battery, the supply or a generator. Ingro EMS-CB keeps the building on line through supply failures, uses solar in the building first, works the battery against the tariff and the demand limit, and reads every meter and the building management system as it goes.
Yes. Both are options on the same controller. Solar serves the building first and charges the battery with its surplus. The generator is the last line: it starts only when an outage outlasts the battery and, while it runs, is held inside its efficient loading band and tops the battery up. A building with neither runs the battery and the supply alone.
Yes, and the split is explicit. Capacity above the reserve floor works the tariff — charging in low-tariff windows, discharging in peak ones, holding demand below its ceiling. Capacity below the floor is untouched by commercial operation and is there for the next interruption.
Offices, government buildings, schools, colleges, malls, hotels and retail. The hardware is the same in each; what differs is the size of the reserve and whether solar or a generator is present, which are settings. Hospitals, airports and data centres, where nothing may drop, are critical sites run on EMS-CP.
As much as you configure. The reserve floor is the proportion of usable battery capacity held apart from commercial operation for continuity — minutes for a changeover in an office, or hours of autonomous running in a building that must stay open. It is a setting on the same hardware, revised as the building accumulates its own data.
Yes. The incoming meter and the sub-meters on feeders, tenants and large loads are read every cycle, and the building management system is read over Modbus or OPC-UA, or through a gateway. Where you grant it, the EMS also moves flexible loads such as pre-cooling and pumps out of peak windows. Integration is confirmed against your equipment list during discovery.
It depends on the class of changeover your process requires. EMS-CB assumes the load at the instant supply is lost, which covers most building loads; equipment that cannot tolerate any break at all is still served by its own UPS, with the battery carrying the building behind it.
A stability hold precedes resynchronisation, after which the building's load is transferred back automatically or on operator confirmation, according to the reconnection policy you configure.
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