Overview

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  • Improve the energy efficiency of your operations

    Market pressure for more operational efficiency and challenges associated with energy supplies make energy efficiency and utilities increasingly relevant in industrial companies at the highest levels of management. However, to date few if any tools have been up to the challenge of significantly and consistently improving energy and utilities management and enabling continuous improvement


    The Viridis Energy Resource Optimizer is a complete solution for energy & utilities management, aimed exclusively at heavy energy consumers. With over 300 unique, advanced features, the software comprises sophisticated engineering tools and artificial intelligence technology to allow much greater control over processes, including real-time analyses.  The software also includes advanced management models, integrating the widest range of perspectives on energy consumption, from individual consumers on the shop floor to enterprise-wide overviews.

     

Products

Viridis products are fully integrated, providing cost-effective flexibility for companies with basic energy & utilities management needs, as well as comprehensive solutions for global corporations with advanced energy and utilities demands.

Provides advanced computational intelligence models to optimize supply and cogeneration strategies, model and optimize large processes, as well as execute probabilistic simulations and sensitivity analysis.
module statistical modeling
Statistical Modeling
Collection of statistical modeling tools that 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 optimized strategies for a variety of operational situations. Includes resources for minimizing energy and utilities supply costs for equipment, processes, production lines, units, sites, or the entire company.
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, to directly resulting in 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 relationships and the aspects of the operation that positively or negatively influence the efficiency of each piece of equipment.
module advanced generation & conversion
Advanced Generation &
Conversion
Manage best marks, adaptive targets, and flexible targets based on context. Manage generation and conversion indicators automatically, as well as their correlation with to other influencing variables.
module emissions
Emission
Automatically 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 for similar pieces of equipment, production lines, or entire industrial plants. Identify 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 the execution of PDCA cycles for energy management, including the measurement and verification of energy efficiency initiatives. Viridis also supports the execution of practices defined by ISO 14001.
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 positively or negatively influenced efficiency levels. Simulate financial costs saved or avoided as a result of energy efficiency operations.
Encompasses all corporate activities in energy & utilities management, including supply contracts management, direct and indirect costs appropriation, future consumption forecasting, energy planning, simulation of various 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 taking into consideration 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 a range of 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 other factors.
module budgeting
Budgeting
Manage the entire 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, in addition to 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 operational characteristics.
module energy & utilities
Energy & Utilities
Configure multiple energy inputs and utilities, including electricity, 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. Balance of metering grids and take advantage of automatic leakage detection.
module equipment
Equipment
Configure all processes and equipment describing your company’s operations, from multiple sites to each individual piece of equipment, modeling all intermediate organization levels passed.
module consumption
Consumption
Control energy consumption by collecting 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
Monitor the levels of stockable energy inputs and manage inventory.
The backbone of the Viridis product 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 platforms such as desktop, mobile, and videowalls. They also include apps for iOS and Android.
module configuration
Configuration
Viridis is highly configurable and adaptable. The Viridis platform can be installed in companies of any size, in any vertical, and of any management maturity level.
module gateway
IoT Gateway
Connects Viridis to operation and enterprise system. 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 of the data 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, the ability to store and instantly vast numbers of historical measurements, and operational data is another highlight of the Viridis platform. Automatically create a comprehensive historical analysis database and leverage the power of historical data across the entire enterprise.
module infoboards
Infoboards
Viridis features user-customizable displays including reports, dashboards, scorecards, process models, and many 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, Viridis contributes to the integration of multiple teams, providing consistent information.

 

Automation

Monitor the plant's entire 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 transactions 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 over 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 pieces of equipment, taking into consideration multiple production plans in different time ranges.

 

FAQ

Viridis is a complete energy management solution developed exclusively for companies which are heavy energy consumers. Viridis includes sophisticated engineering and artificial intelligence tools to facilitate control over processes in real time. Viridis also includes advanced management models, making the shop floor perspective visible to corporate management.

Vero stands for the Viridis Energy Resource Optimizer, the full name of the Viridis 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 that 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 systems technology allows Viridis to be highly scalable. A single deployment with multiple servers can serve and integrate multiple plants in parallel. For example, a small installation in one plant can support up to 500 meters with real-time coverage. Medium-sized installations can support about 3,000 meters, and large installations up to 10,000 meters. The Viridis system architecture allows it to support installations even larger than this.

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

Viridis is currently available in English, Portuguese, Spanish, and French. In order to meet the requirements of multinational clients, Viridis also supports multiple time zones and currencies.

The organization of the Viridis architecture statement does not place restrictions on the deployment model. So based on the particular needs or restrictions of a given client, Viridis can be installed locally at client sites using the client’s own infrastructure, or in the cloud using infrastructure provided by Viridis. In the case of cloud deployment models Viridis can be installed in a private cloud dedicated to the client, or in a shared cloud with isolation and total privacy for client data.

Implementation typically takes between 3 and 6 months and varies according to plant size.

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

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

Yes - Viridis provides comprehensive support for implementing practices established by the ISO 50001 standard, enabling the client to achieve expected levels of energy performance and obtain certification from a competent external organization. The implementation of the continuous improvement cycle (using the Viridis Continuous Improvement module) is very important to ensuring compliance with ISO 50001.

Viridis features are directed to the various functional areas in an organization, taking into account the perspective of each user type with regard to energy and utilities management. From upper management to operations, Viridis contributes to the integration of a wide variety of teams, providing consistent information. The functional areas of the company that commonly use Viridis are:

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

Viridis empowers energy management teams and significantly increases their productivity. Viridis saves time by automating multiple management routines and information consolidation. Instead of spending hours in front of spreadsheets cross-checking data and monitoring reports, team members can spend their time where it matters most: in improving the company’s energy efficiency.

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

Viridis was developed on a technological platform that takes advantage of the most modern big-data systems. The system is distributed in clusters having at least two nodes, inherently providing high availability. Each node contains a complete stack of the Viridis application. The main module of the application is executed from a Java application server. There are three independent databases: relational, NoSQL, and multidimensional. The Viridis nodes can be implemented in Linux and Windows local environments or directly on virtual infrastructures.

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

Yes - in cases where clients have geographically distributed operations, Viridis handles operational management and other aspects related to energy performance in multiple sites. Sites can be registered in the system and include settings for various specifications of each plant… In this way Viridis preserves the specifications of each plant but simultaneously provides consolidated overviews.

Currently we have installations supporting around 100 million data points per day, requiring processing of approximately 10 GB per day, efficiently compressed and stored. Due to the distributed and scalable architecture, capacity can be expanded according to the requirements of each implementation.

Yes - Viridis is always installed in clusters having at least two servers, both in local and cloud installations. All data is automatically synchronized between the servers of each cluster, so Viridis is always available to users even in the event of hardware or environmental issues.

Yes - Viridis has developed proprietary 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 servers in the cloud.

The cloud model provides high levels of information security, usually superior even to those obtained by local installations. All communication is encrypted and a high level of control is required to access Viridis servers. In addition, clients can choose the private cloud model, in which each client is assigned dedicated servers.

No - Viridis can be accessed via the internet from anywhere and from a wide variety of platforms via a browser, including tablets, smartphones, desktops, and video walls, without the need for a dedicated server or additional software.

Yes - smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices can access Viridis without any additional software.

Yes - Viridis uses responsive web interface technologies, allowing adaptation to virtually any size or type of screen. Viridis interface panels can therefore be used as a resource for onsite management or on video walls in 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 a wide variety of sources including MES, PIMS, ERP, and meters, among others.

Viridis manages all inputs used by clients: electrical energy, solid, liquid, and gaseous fuels, water, atmospheric gases, 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; atmospheric gases; and more.

Yes. Viridis manages emissions of multiple types of greenhouse gases (GHG), like carbon dioxide, in addition to solid and liquid residues. Management is performed 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. In this 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; rather, it identifies opportunities to refine existing processes. For example, Viridis identifies setup parameters, input combinations, and other conditions that have varying degrees of efficiency. Based on this analysis, process engineering teams can then execute the required adjustments.

In the case of some real-time monitoring features, yes, automatic measurement is required. One example of this type of feature is automatic leakage detection based on energy consumption patterns. However, automatic measurement is not required in the case of certain other management features, since it is possible to feed data to the system from manual inputs or from mobile devices.

In the Viridis system, data received from meters is considered raw data. After being read, meter data is subjected to two processes: standardization and data cleansing.
The standardization process guarantees that data of the same type is always stored in the system in the same way. In addition, the standardization process ensures that data is converted to standard units.
The data quality subsystem is responsible for evaluating data reported by meters as well as identifying and correcting problems, such as duplicates, null data, gaps, outliers, large abrupt variations, jittering, and negative data. These problems are automatically detected by the system and then correction strategies are applied to eliminate them.
A variety of correction strategies for avoiding low data quality are available in Viridis. Strategy can be set on a meter-by-meter basis in order to apply specific techniques to specific problems.
This powerful data cleansing tool gives Viridis incomparable capacity to translate measurements into reliable KPIs, avoiding errors due to low quality of basic information during the decision-making process.

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

Yes, via a gateway. The Viridis IoT Gateway is the integration component of the system – middleware capable of connecting to multiple automation and information systems that can be sources of or destinations for data manipulated by Viridis. The connectivity of the Viridis IoT Gateway is based on a library of connectors that includes SQL, SAP, OPC, Modbus, files, HTTP, PIMS (OSISoft PI, Aspentech IP.21), and more.

Yes - Viridis provides close integration with other engineering and information systems used in automation and on the shop floor, including PIMS, PLCs, SCADAs, and energy meters.

Viridis offers two support options: 24/7, and during business hours only. Both options are available in on-site and on-demand models. Viridis guarantees pre-established service levels for each type of activation according to its potential impact on the client’s business. Viridis support can be activated via the client’s portal or directly in the system via a mechanism that transmits the entire user context to the support team.

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