fleXality Creates More Transparency in Energy Management

More Overview and Extended Functionality: With the revised central dashboard within the AI-based platform “fEnOMS”, fleXality GmbH creates more transparency and control in energy management. The IT platform is particularly aimed at energy-intensive companies – such as those with cooling processes, thermal systems, or flexible electricity consumers.

(Bremen) By utilizing artificial intelligence, the Bremen energy experts help their clients to procure electricity at their location and from the grid in a cost-optimized manner. The highlight for the user: Typically, the fleXality system saves more than 20 percent of electricity costs. The latest modules of the software were presented at this year’s “Smarter E” in Munich.

The fleXality team has extensively further developed the dashboard. It will now serve as the central user interface of fEnOMS. The new version, which will be rolled out to existing customers in July, offers significantly expanded functions for visualization, control, analysis, and rights management. “Our customers can compile the desired key figures of their systems and the required load profiles according to their needs. Our IT solution visualizes the consumption of complex industrial plants and ensures maximum transparency,” says fleXality Managing Director Sören Eilenberger. This central dashboard acts as an energy hub and enables continuous monitoring and optimization of all connected processes in line with a modern energy management system.

Integration Completely Without Structural Measures

The Bremen startup supports industrial companies in making their systems and processes more energy-flexible and thus, above all, more cost-efficient and environmentally friendly. The AI-based platform fEnOMS can be integrated into existing infrastructures in just a few days, without the need for additional sensors or structural measures. The integrated modules of fEnOMS, including fleXcool for cooling processes and fleXheat for industrial heating processes, allow for targeted optimization of individual energy flows in the overall context. In addition, fleXality offers a solution for holistic control of all energy flows at the site. This intelligently harmonizes producers, consumers, and storage and regulates them automatically based on forecasts, electricity prices, and flexibility potentials.

Among the extended functionalities, the new central dashboard also includes features such as the reporting function. This allows for the creation of reports on aggregated energy consumption as well as the representation of corresponding savings in relation to current spot market prices. All consumption data is continuously analyzed and flows into the optimization of the operating mode. An example of this is the AI-supported “sailing” with the fleXcool module: When the spot market electricity price is low, cooling is generated purposefully. At high prices, cooling can be temporarily reduced without leaving the permissible temperature range. This allows existing flexibility potentials to be utilized economically. The targeted capping of peak loads, known as “peak shaving”, also contributes to the reduction of energy costs and CO₂ emissions.

Real-Time Monitoring and Alarm Functions

The revised dashboard now also enables team access with individually adjustable read and write rights for the various hierarchical levels on the user side. The fleXality system also supports real-time monitoring, analysis, and alerting of technical components in industrial energy systems. Among other things, temperature measuring devices are monitored by the IT system, which compares the measurement values with official weather data. “In this way, we not only monitor electricity consumption but also the functionality of certain critical components,” says Sören Eilenberger. “Overall, our IT system helps to take advantage of the cheapest spot market rates, identify faults, and significantly increase the efficiency of thermal systems.”

Interdisciplinary Team

“The best energy storage is the one that doesn’t need to be built at all,” is Dyke Wilke, the second managing director and one of the four founders of fleXality GmbH, convinced. “Because existing technical systems – such as those for cooling, heating, or compressed air – can be optimized with intelligent control measures like our AI algorithm to enable significant savings potentials.” The twelve-member fleXality team consists of mechanical engineers, computer scientists, and energy experts and works interdisciplinary. Thus, fleXality provides the necessary technical expertise to unlock these savings potentials for clients from industry and logistics. The goal is to support companies in making their processes economically and ecologically sustainable.

Photo: © Philipp Eigner/fleXality GmbH / Image Caption: The founding team of fleXality GmbH (l.r.): Sören Eilenberger (Managing Director), Leon Pichotka (Lead Data Scientist), Dyke Wilke (Managing Director), and Justus Hinken (Technical Director, CTO)