Overview

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  • Improve the energy efficiency of your operations

    Market pressure for more operational efficiency and difficulties with energy supplies promote energy efficiency & utilities as an even more relevant theme to upper management of industrial companies. However, there are rarely tools up to the challenge of improving management and enabling a continuous improvement cycle.


    The Viridis Energy Resource Optimizer is a complete solution for energy & utilities management, aimed exclusively at heavy energy consumers. With over 300 features, the software contains sophisticated engineering tools and artificial intelligence technology to enhance control over processes, including real time analyses.  It also includes advanced management models, which integrate different perspectives on energy, from the shop floor to corporate management.

Products

Viridis’s products are integrated, providing flexibility for companies that have basic energy & utilities management demands or for global companies with advanced demands.

Provides advanced computational intelligence models to optimize supply and cogeneration strategies, model and optimize large processes, execute probabilistic simulations and sensitivity analysis.
module statistical modeling
Statistical Modeling
Collection of statistical modeling tools that may which can be applied to the historical data repository for deeper analysis of equipment and processes.
module simulation
Simulation
Advanced probabilistic simulation features, sensitivity analysis, stochastic evaluation of models, and other sophisticated tools focused on predicting behavior of equipment and processes.
module optimization
Optimization
Mathematical optimization features focused on finding superior strategies for different operational situations. Includes resources for minimizing energy and utilities supply costs for equipment, processes, production lines, units, sites, or the entire corporation.
Promotes energy and operational efficiency initiatives in order to identify useless energy, waste, operational best practices, savings quantification, avoided costs, and management of the efficiency continuous improvement cycle management, directly impacting on reducing energy & utilities consumption.
module advanced consumption
Advanced Consumption
Manage best marks, adaptive targets and flexible targets based on context. Manage consumption correlations automatically by fractioning average energy performances based on different contexts. Highlight cause and effect relations and which aspects of the operation influence positively and negatively the efficiency in each piece of equipment.
module advanced generation & conversion
Advanced Generation &
Conversion
Manage best marks, adaptive targets, and flexible targets based on context. Mmanage generation and conversion indicators automatically, along with their correlation to other influencing variables.
module emissions
Emission
Automatic ally monitor greenhouse gases, liquid and solid waste emissions. environmental impact indicators, and sustainability. Manage specific emissions by time, produced amount, or any other variables.Create sustainability dashboards, targets, and environmental impact indicators.
module balances
Balances
Viridis calculates and manages mass and energy balances for specific pieces of equipment, production lines, or the entire plant.
module benchmarking
Benchmarking
Compare energy performance indicators with similar pieces of equipment, production lines, or entire industrial plants. Define which operational parameters are responsible for different levels of energy performance and close the gaps in your operation.
module continuous improvement
Continuous Improvement
Viridis includes a set of tools that enable executing PDCA cycles for energy management, including the measurement and verification of energy efficiency initiatives. It also supports the execution of practices defined by ISO 14001 standard.
module savings & cost avoidance
Savings & Cost Avoidance
Compare energy efficiency levels in relation to baseline periods, analyzing cause and effect and identifying which incidents, events, energy efficiency initiatives, and other factors have influenced positively or negatively the efficiency levels. Simulate financial costs saved or avoided by energy efficiency operations.
Absorbs all corporate activities in energy & utilities management, including supply contracts management, direct and indirect costs appropriation, future consumption forecasting, energy planning, simulation of different consumption and supply scenarios, and budgeting management.
module forecasting
Forecasting
Display projected consumption, generation, or emissions for individual pieces of equipment, production lines, or the entire plant. Automatically take into consideration all changes to production and operational plans.
module planning & simulation
Planning & Simulation
Enable multiple scenario planning considering the distribution of production steps over time. Dynamic simulations consider the latest operational and production plans along with individual equipment models to precisely forecast energy & utilities consumption under different assumptions.
module contracts
Contracts
Manage contracts and energy input costs considering terms such as seasonal rates, contracted demand, take-or-pay clauses, fines, taxes, and others.
module budgeting
Budgeting
Manage the whole energy budgeting cycle from within Viridis. Orchestrate decentralized budgeting and consolidation. Automatically connect to external ERP or budgeting systems to retrieve data, publish plans, and monitor execution.
module accounting
Accounting
Rule-based energy costing system, capable of allocating direct and indirect costs to ledger accounts, cost centers, production orders, besides automatically integrating with accounting systems and ERPs.
Monitors consumption, generation, emissions and energy & utilities conversions through all of the company’s operations, manages distribution networks, and executes automatic correlations of equipment energy performance based on occurred events and operations’ characteristics.
module energy & utilities
Energy & Utilities
Configure multiple energy inputs and utilities, including electrical energy, solid, liquid, and gaseous fuels, steam, compressed air, air gases, different types of water, and many more.
module meter grids
Meter Grids
Configure meter grids and organize meters in hierarchies or busbars. Enable the balancing of metering grids and take advanced of automatic leakage detection.
module equipment
Equipment
Configure all processes and equipment which describe the company’s operations, from multiple sites to each individual piece of equipment, modeling all passing intermediate organization levels.
module consumption
Consumption
Control energy consumption by gathering all measurements from the plant to provide a consolidated view of energy use. Manage consumption KPIs and their targets in real time. Monitor specific consumption by time, produced amount, or by any other operational variable used in the company.
modul generation & conversion
Generation & Conversion
Control energy generation and cogeneration using byproducts of other production processes. Manage performance indicators in real time and analyze generation and conversion efficiency. Manage specific generation by time, produced amount, or any other operational variable used in the company.
module stock
Stock
Control the levels of stockable energy inputs and manage inventory.
The backbone of Viridis’s products family, offering the state-of-the-art in IoT, Big Data, Analytics, Cloud Computing, DevOps, Computational Intelligence, and Mobile technologies for Digital Transformation and Industry 4.0 applications.
module system
System
Viridis products have a responsive and multiplatform web interface, available in a wide range of devices such as desktop, mobile, and videowalls. It also contains a mobile app avaliable foi iOS and Android.
module configuration
Configuration
Viridis is highly configurable and adaptable. The platform may be applied in companies of different sizes,verticals and maturity levels.
module gateway
IoT Gateway
Connect Viridis to operation and enterprise systems. The Viridis IoT Gateway integrates with legacy systems in real time reliably and securely, managing data from thousands of data sources.
module data ingestion
Data Ingestion
Viridis’s platform collects and manages automatic measurements, manual entries, and formula-based virtual meters. The data ingestion module controls all the flow between Viridis IoT Gateways and the multiple data processing steps performed by the platform.
module data quality
Data Quality
Sophisticated mechanisms for data quality problem detection and automatic cleansing, enabling the processing of data from thousands of sources in real time, without human intervention.
module historian
Historian
In addition to real-time monitoring, storing large amounts of historical measurements, and operational data is another highlight of Viridis’s platform. Automatically create your historical analysis database and leverage the power of data for your organization.
module infoboards
Infoboards
Viridis features user customizable displays including reports, dashboards, scorecards, process models, and others.

Industries

Viridis is an energy and utilities solution developed to support a wide range of sectors, incorporating process details, production lines, and equipment inherent to each operation type.

Industries

Functional Areas

Viridis has features directed to the different functional areas of the company, considering the perspective of each user type related to energy and utilities management. From upper management to operations, the solution contributes to the integration of multiple teams, providing consistent information.

 

Automation

Monitor the plant's whole measurement infrastructure and analyze the quality of data coming from every meter, in real time. Troublesome meters are easily identified, so that teams can prioritize their efforts based on running histories.

Energy Efficiency

Identify new opportunities of improvement, plan efficiency projects and follow up on the result of the implementations. Viridis measures the results automatically for each efficiency project and for a significant part of activities and reports related to ISO 50,001.

Controllership

Viridis automates the process of energy costing directly from the measurement's infrastructure. In addition, the energy budget can be built inside the solution, to be later consolidated and published for implementation.

Quality

Energy consumption can indicate quality problems in some processes. Production quality teams use Viridis to identify flaws in processes and improvement opportunities, gaining on quality and reducing consumption simultaneously.

Corporate Management

Representatives of upper management use Viridis to follow up on key indicators about their energy inputs and utilities. Besides sending information by email, Viridis dashboards can be remotely accessed via mobile devices.

Environment & Sustainability

Environment and sustainability areas use Viridis to follow up on residue emissions by equivalence and by measurement, including automatic generation of specific reports conforming to the ISO 14,001 standard.
 

Production

Production operation teams use Viridis to follow up on energy consumption, track transaction in their cost centers, and create their own energy budgets using consumption projections based on production plans.

 

Process Engineering

Process engineers use Viridis to analyze equipment behavior through time, based on its process and energy consumption variables, enabling the identification of improvement opportunities in production.

Utilities

Integrate  different views about all inputs, their consumption, contracts, costs, and more. Viridis offers great control over energy inputs and utilities, automating routine activities and providing significant productivity gains for management teams.

Maintenance

Maintenance teams receive predictive maintenance orders, created automatically within enterprise asset management (EAM) systems. Viridis monitors energy consumption and process variables of in real time to promote condition based maintenance (CBM).

Supply

Track all energy contracts and perform their closing procedures using Viridis. By using features for simulating contract execution, managers can foresee behavior and future costs of the plant, according to the energy demand projected for each production plan.

Production Control & Planning

PCP areas use Viridis to forecast consumption of all the pieces of equipment, considering multiple production plans in different time limits.

 

FAQ

Viridis is a complete energy management solution developed exclusively for companies which are heavy energy consumers. The software contains sophisticated tools of engineering and artificial intelligence to enhance control over processes in real time. It also contains advanced management models, integrating the shop floor's perspective to the corporate management's.

Vero is the abbreviation of Viridis Energy Resource Optimizer, the full name of Viridis's energy management solution.

Viridis was built to support a wide range of sectors, incorporating process details, production lines, and equipment inherent to each kind of plant. Here are some of the sectors which can benefit from Viridis:

Food and Beverages
Automotive Consumer goods
Cement and Lime
Ferro-alloys Machinery and Equipment
Non-ferrous Metal
Metal-mechanic
Mining
Paper and Cellulose
Oil and Gas
Chemical
Metallurgy
Textiles

Distributed system technology enables Viridis to be widely scalable. Therefore, one individual deployment with multiple servers can serve and integrate multiple plants in parallel. For example, a small installation in one plant can hold up to 500 meters with real time follow up. Medium installations reach around 3.000 meters and large plants, up to 10,000 meters. However, architecture of the system enables it to support even larger installations.

Currently, Viridis has more than 300 features distributed in 28 modules, each dedicated to a different discipline of energy management or control.

Currently, the system is available in: Portuguese, French, Spanish, and English. To fulfill requirements of multinational clients, the system gives special attention to internationalization aspects, not only of multiple languages, but also time zones, and different currencies.

Viridis's architecture segment is organized so it doesn't restrict the deployment model. Therefore, due to particular needs or restrictions of each client, the system can be locally installed at the client's sites, using their own infrastructure, or in the cloud, using infrastructure hired by Viridis. In case of cloud deployment models, the system can be installed in a private cloud, dedicated to each client, or in a shared cloud, with isolation and total privacy for the client's data.

Implementation can take from 3 to 6 months and vary according to the size of the plant.

Yes, the system includes three modules dedicated to financial aspects of energy inputs: costing, budget, and contracts. Viridis automates the process of energy costing directly from the measurement's infrastructure. In addition, the energy budget can be built inside the solution, to be later consolidated and published for execution. The system also manages all energy contracts of the company, like energy purchasing contracts, demand contracts, and even contracts for energy co-products sales.

Yes. Viridis promotes the operational continuity of companies and anticipates the best answer to different equipment, leakage, input, or supplier-related problems.

Yes. The system provides total support for executing practices established by ISO 50,001 standard, enabling the client to achieve expected energy performances and get certification from a competent external organization. The execution of continuous improvement cycle (using Viridis's Continuous Improvement module) is very important to guarantee accordance with the standard.

Viridis has features directed to the different functional areas of the company, considering the perspective of each user type related to energy and utilities management. From upper management to operations, the solution contributes to integrate multiple teams, providing consistent information. The functional areas of the company that commonly use the solution are:

Automation and Instrumentation
Accounting
Energetic Efficiency
Process Engineering
Corporate management
Maintenance
Environment and sustainability
Production Control and Planning
Quality
Supply
Utilities

Viridis potentiates the energy management teams' work and significantly increases their productivity. The solution automates multiple management routines and information consolidation, saving precious time for the teams. Instead of spending hours in front of spreadsheets crossing data and monitoring reports, teams can invest their time better and concentrate efforts where it matters the most: in improving the company's energy efficiency.

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Yes. Viridis replaces existing applications in the company’s landscape, reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) of IT systems.

Viridis was developed under a technological platform that uses the most modern big data systems. The system is distributed in clusters with at least 2 nodes, inherently providing high availability. Each node contains a complete pile of Viridis's application. The main module of the application is executed from a Java application server. There are 3 independent data bases: relational, nosql, and multidimensional. Viridis's nodes can be implemented in Linux and Windows local environments or directly under virtual infrastructures.

Yes. Viridis applies various artificial intelligence techniques, including pattern recognition models, classification, optimization, dynamic simulation, and Monte Carlo simulation.

Yes. In case of clients that have geographically distributed operations, the system handles operational management and other aspects related to energy performance in multiple sites. Sites can be registered in the system including settings for various specifications of each plant, like shift tables, system and measurement unities, time zones, currency, language, holidays calendar, and more. That way, the system preserves the specifications of each plant, but simultaneously provides conjoined visions of them.

Viridis works with high availability. Currently, we have installations to support around 100 million points a day, which requires processing of approximately 10GB per day, efficiently compressed and storaged. Due to distributive and scalable architecture, its capacity can enhance according to the needs of each implementation.

Yes. Viridis is always installed in clusters with at least 2 servers, in both cloud and local installations. All data is automatically synchronized between the servers of the clusters, so that even in case of hardware or environment flaws, Viridis is always available to users.

Yes. Viridis developed an exclusive technology for secure, real time communication with servers in the cloud. A local gateway is installed in appliance or virtual appliance format. This gateway connects to information and automation systems in real time and manages all bidirectional communication with Viridis's servers in the cloud.

The cloud model provides high levels of information security, usually superior even to those obtained by local installations. Technically, all communication is encrypted and there is a high level of control to access Viridis's servers. Besides, clients can choose the private cloud regime, in which each client receives dedicated servers that doesn't share any kind of information with other companies and clients.

No. Viridis can be accessed by Internet from any place and in different platforms, like tablets, smartphones, desktops, and video walls, using a browser and without needing any dedicated server or additional software.

Yes. Smartphones, tablets, and desktops without any additional software can access Viridis.

Yes. Viridis is implemented with responsive web interface techniques, allowing adaptation to screen size or type available. Therefore, its panels can be used as a resource for in-sight management or in video walls at control rooms.

Yes. The Viridis platform implements the concept of a data lake to integrate relevant data for energy and utilities management. Data comes from different sources such as MES, PIMS, ERP, meters, among others.

Viridis manages all inputs used by clients: electrical energy, solid, liquid, and gaseous fuels, water, gases of the air, and more. In addition to primary inputs, Viridis manages generation and consumption of co-products, like steam, compressed air, and metallurgic gases.

No. Viridis manages all inputs used by clients: electrical energy, solid, liquid, and gaseous fuels, water, gases of the air, and more.

Yes. Viridis manages emissions of multiple types of greenhouse gases (GHG), like carbon dioxide, besides solid and liquid residues. Management is executed by measurement and equivalence, based on estimates of energy consumption and generation. This configuration enables the system to manage all emissions of the plant.

Yes. The same resources available in consumption generation are accessible for managing internal energy and co-products generation. That way, Viridis monitors registration, measurement, and generators, manages total and specific generation, and controls energy generation data (including alerts and maintenance orders).

Yes, but gradually. When deployed, the solution adapts to the company's current management model. As time passes, Viridis promotes a gradual evolution of management practices, helping the company achieve new efficiency levels.

No. Viridis doesn't change processes, but identifies refining opportunities in existent processes. For example, it identifies setup parameters, inputs combinations, and other conditions that are more or less efficient. Based on this analysis, process engineering teams can execute the required adjustments.

In case of some monitoring features in real time, yes, automatic measurement is needed. An example of these kind of features is the automatic leakage detection, based on energy consumption patterns. However, automatic measurement is not mandatory in case of some management features, since is possible to feed the system with data from the terminal's manual entrances or from mobile devices.

In Viridis's system, data received from meters are considered raw data. After reading, the data go through two processes: standardization and data cleansing.
Standardization process guarantees that data is always stored in the system the same way. Besides, standardization process makes sure that conversion to standard unities is registered.
The quality data subsystem is responsible for evaluating data reported by meters, identifying and correcting problems, such as duplicates, null data, gaps, outliers, abrupt large variations, jittering, and negative data. These problems are automatically detected by the system and correction strategies are applied to eliminate them.
Various correction strategies focused on avoiding low quality data are available in Viridis. Strategy settings are executed by each meter, in order to apply specific techniques for each problem case.
This powerful cleansing data tool gives the system incomparable capacity to translate measurement in reliable KPIs, avoiding errors due to low quality of basic information during the decision making process.

Yes. Viridis enables strong integration with other engineering and information systems used by the company, from automation (PIMS, PLCs, SCADAs, energy meters) to management systems (SAP and others ERPs, MES, IT systems). The solution manages all energy and utilities data, avoiding inconsistencies and multiple versions of the same information.

Yes, through the gateway. Viridis IoT Gateway is the integration component of the system, a middleware capable of connecting with multiple automation and information systems, that act like sources or destiny to data manipulated by Viridis. Its connectivity is based on a library of connectors that includes SQL, SAP, OPC, Modbus, files, HTTP, PIMS (OSISoft PI, Aspentech IP21), and more.

Yes. Viridis provides strong integration with other engineering and information systems used in automation and shop- floor, like PIMS, PLCs, SCADAs, and energy meters.

Viridis offers two support regimes: one 24x7 and other in commercial hours. Both regimes are available in on-premises and on-demand models. Viridis guarantees service levels (SLAs) pre-established for each kind of activation, according to its impact potential for the client's business. You can activate Viridis's support through the company's portal or directly in the system, by a mechanism that transmits all context of where the user was to the support team.

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