OREANDA-NEWS. May 15, 2012. Fujitsu today announced the development of Enetune, a cloud-based energy management system (EMS) service to be available starting at the end of June. The service collects energy data from all of a company's business locations, including leased or rented buildings and retail locations. By consolidating and centrally managing this data in the cloud, businesses can bring integrated and cross-sectional clarity to their energy usage.

This makes it possible for customers to shift from a conventional model in which improvements are individually implemented for each location to a new approach of performing central energy management for all buildings. As a result, companies will be able to compare and evaluate power usage efficiency across multiple business locations and implement effective countermeasures. In addition, through power demand forecasting capabilities employing the latest technology from Fujitsu Laboratories Limited, the new service enables customers to implement countermeasures, such as relying on energy storage devices and generating power internally during times when power demand is expected to peak, and to use remote control and automatic control capabilities. This also helps businesses to avoid exceeding power levels specified in their electric utilities agreements.

In order to flexibly respond to a variety of changes in the power usage landscape in Japan, including an overburdened power supply, rising electricity costs and revised energy-conservation laws, businesses are increasingly facing a need to further enhance energy management with the aim of streamlining utilize of energy.

Recently, attention has been focused on the conventional model of addressing the efficiency of energy usage in individual buildings owned by companies, requiring a strong reliance on the skills and know-how of individual building managers. This has also made it difficult to evaluate energy usage efficiency across multiple locations, thereby resulting in an imbalance in the improvement levels for different buildings. One effective approach for addressing these challenges is to centrally compare and evaluate energy data from multiple buildings and then roll out a common set of effective countermeasures at each of the locations.

Beginning in late June, Fujitsu will be offering Enetune, a cloud-based EMS service that supports enterprise energy management and provides companies with the essential ability to optimize and improve the efficiency of their energy usage.

The new service will be exhibited at Fujitsu Forum 2012, to be held at the Tokyo International Forum on Thursday, May 5 and Friday, May 18.