Power Monitoring & GE Integration: Woman’s Hospital Success Story PostedThursday, April 13,2017 at 8:10 AM Affinity Energy was chosen by GE for a simple SCADA integration, but ended up also solving several frustrating power monitoring issues for end-user Woman’s Hospital. Read More
Monitoring ATS Distribution - University of Virginia Medical Center Success Story PostedWednesday, March 29,2017 at 3:55 PM The University of Virginia Medical Center chose Affinity Energy to install multi-circuit meters on ATSs around campus. Ultimately, the submeters assist the maintenance supervisor to accurately determine load status during emergency power situations. Read More
Central Energy Plant Logging and Alerting - University of Virginia Medical Center Success Story PostedThursday, March 16,2017 at 3:09 PM The University of Virginia Medical Center chose Affinity Energy to implement a SCADA system that provides alerting and documentation of event details in their central energy plant. Read More
Scientific Chamber Temperature Control - University of North Carolina Success Story PostedThursday, March 2,2017 at 9:22 AM Affinity Energy worked with local university to provide an “open systems” alternative for critical temperature-controlled research rooms. Some store critical products in the millions of dollars and others provide the base for performing critical research to life science. The room temperature must be very accurate, within half a degree, due to the controlled experiments conducted in these rooms. Read More
Wireless Communications Infrastructure - PV Solar Plant Success Story PostedThursday, February 23,2017 at 8:55 AM A 80MW solar farm in North Carolina needed controls and insight on a site spanning 800 acres. The primary concern was ensuring communications reliability over long distances, and creating a redundant network to ensure continued reporting...without breaking the bank. Read More
SCADA Audible Alerting - A Southeast Hospital Success Story PostedFriday, February 17,2017 at 11:48 AM A large hospital system in the Southeast with multiple Central Energy Plants chose Affinity Energy to implement an audible alerting functionality into their previously existing SCADA system. While the "main" CEP, which is staffed 7x24x365, already had the ability to view alarms at remote and unmanned CEP locations, it was imperative to the customer that critical alarms were not missed when local operators were away from the control room performing maintenance or working on other tasks. Read More
EPMS Commissioning - QTS Data Center Success Story PostedTuesday, February 14,2017 at 8:34 AM Imagine how complicated it would be to commission an electrical power management system (EPMS) for the nation’s third largest data center with multiple entities involved, including design, construction, engineering, integration, installation and testing. Now imagine completing the task in 90 days.That’s exactly what faced Affinity Energy when called upon by Quality Technology Systems (QTS), one of the premier data center operators in the world. Read More
CFMS Hardware Replacement - Jones Lang LaSalle/Bank of America Success Story PostedFriday, February 10,2017 at 8:36 AM When the Critical Facilities Monitoring System (CFMS) unexpectedly failed for their Bank of America client, Jones Lang LaSalle turned to Affinity Energy for a quick turnaround to get the system back online. Read More
Solar Site Monitoring and Solar Integration - Duke Energy Success Story PostedTuesday, February 7,2017 at 12:31 PM Customized solar integration: Affinity Energy integrates Duke Energy's corporate SCADA with preexisting proprietary monitoring hardware at nine sites. Read More
Waste-to-Energy SCADA System Based on PLCs - Concord Energy Renewable Gas to Energy Plant Success Story PostedFriday, February 3,2017 at 2:03 PM Municipalities looking for a renewable energy source can simply look to their local landfill. First, we won’t be running out of trash anytime soon. Second, the organic waste in landfills can generate a tremendous amount of methane gas. And that gas must be dealt with somehow. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, methane gas has a global warming potential 25 times greater than carbon dioxide.Converting this gas to energy has both economic and environmental benefits. This has fueled a growing trend of cooperation and partnership between landfill operators and energy utilities. Read More