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BAE Systems
Synetica have been engaged with BAE Systems since 2010 on various energy and air quality monitoring projects in the UK and abroad.
BAE Systems is a global defence, aerospace and security company employing around 90,500 people worldwide and is one of the world’s largest defence companies. Synetica have been engaged with BAE Systems since 2010 on various energy and air quality monitoring projects in the UK and abroad. We first deployed our wireless metering at HM Naval Base in Portsmouth in 2011 to monitor energy consumption of Naval vessels when in port. The metering system provides minute by minute electricity consumption of all vessels connected to shore power supplies to enable the BAE Systems energy analysists to identify areas of energy savings, provide benchmarking of consumption and also for capacity planning. Data is automatically streamed to the onsite enVision IoT platform to provide real time visualisation and reporting.
The metering is installed on the secondary side of the high voltage transformers positioned at each jetty around the vast naval base. Because of the large area of the site and spread out nature of the shore side power distribution, wireless metering was the only practical and economically viable method of metering. Synetica and BAE engineers designed a wireless, cellular type network to provide strong wireless signals in all areas of the site which also provides robust data security.
As the largest energy consumer across defence, making a radical change to both the cost and carbon footprint of Portsmouth Naval Base is a rare and really exciting opportunity.
HM Naval Base, Portsmouth
Portsmouth Naval Base is spread over 380 acres, six miles of waterfront and supports approximately 13,000 full-time jobs. The Naval Base is home to almost two-thirds of the Royal Navy’s surface fleet, including the Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carriers, Type 45 destroyers, Type 23 frigates, mine countermeasure vessels and the Fishery Protection Squadron. Synetica enLink Modbus units with long range LoRaWAN wireless are installed on the high voltage transformers across the vast Naval Base and transmit critical parameters including kWh, Voltage, Current and Harmonic Distortion to provide insight into how the power distribution is performing and to enable energy reduction measures to be identified and verified.
