INDUSTRY JOURNEY

Energy Monitoring

Your energy bill just spiked 40%. No one knows which line caused it.

Energy data lives everywhere - meters, a BMS, SCADA, utility feeds. This journey brings it into one workspace and turns it into saved queries everyone reads the same way.

The challenge

Energy management in an industrial facility runs into:

• Scattered data - meters, submeters, BMS and utility feeds in different systems
• No allocation - consumption cannot be traced to a line or a process
• Reporting burden - sustainability reports need manual data collection
• Hidden waste - inefficiencies buried in aggregate numbers

What OpenX gives you

Capability	How it helps
One consumption view	Every meter and source on surfaces in one workspace
Cost allocation queries	Azi proposes warm queries that trace consumption to processes
A record of changes	Once Provenance is set up in your landing zone, Saves to connections, surfaces and warm queries are recorded; accepted proposals are not (what is recorded)
Any AI over MCP	Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor reads the same saved queries

When someone asks "How did you calculate that?", you show them the saved query behind the number.

What you will build

Component	Description
Connections	Power meters, gas meters, BMS feeds, utility data
Surfaces	Building-level, line-level and equipment-level monitoring
Warm queries	Consumption tracking, cost allocation, demand analysis
API endpoints	ERP integration, sustainability reporting, dashboards
MCP	Energy questions answered by any MCP client

Two tracks

Track A: Hybrid - monitor without replacing

You have meters, a BMS and an energy management system. This track adds OpenX beside them:

• Bring existing meter data in through a live-device connection
• Create surfaces by building, floor or line
• Build allocation queries with Azi
• Call those queries from your reporting tools

Start the hybrid track

Track B: Full - meter it all

Starting fresh, or want complete control:

• Design your metering architecture from scratch
• Create a complete surface hierarchy
• Build a query library
• Give operations, sustainability and finance the access they need

Start the full track

Before you start

Requirement	Details
An OpenX workspace	See Get a Workspace
Azure (optional)	Live devices use Fathym's shared IoT hub until your workspace has its own landing zone and IoT fabric in your Azure subscription
Data sources	Meters, a BMS, or a Simulator node

Why it matters

Sustainability reporting

Requirement	How saved queries help
Scope 1 emissions	One saved query over gas consumption
Scope 2 emissions	One saved query for electricity allocation
Reduction targets	A documented baseline, and progress against it

Cost allocation

• By department: which team consumes what
• By process: which production lines cost most
• By time: peak demand against off-peak

Choose your track

Next steps

• Other industries -> Industry journeys
• Common query shapes -> Query Patterns