After determining the power load profile of a commercial building, engineers need to ensure the system is monitored and integrated with the building's other engineered systems. Here, a group of experts shed light on how to approach integrating power monitoring systems. Steven Shapiro: The facilities we design are mostly mission critical/data center/telecommunication facilities. These sites are relatively large, with tens of thousands of monitoring points. We rarely, if ever, recommend that the electrical power monitoring system be integrated with a building's other engineered systems. Data gathering speed, reliability, redundancy, and granularity are difficult to obtain with integrated systems.
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