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dc.contributor.authorGoosen, P.
dc.contributor.authorMathews, M.J.
dc.contributor.authorVosll, J.C.
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-05T13:53:59Z
dc.date.available2018-06-05T13:53:59Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.citationGoosen, P. et al. 2017. Automated electricity bill analysis in South Africa. Presented at the 28th Annual Conference of the Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering (SAIIE), 25-27 Oct, Vanderbijlpark, South Africa. The South African journal of industrial engineering, 28(3):66-77. [http://dx.doi.org/10.7166/28-3-1840]en_US
dc.identifier.issn1012-277X
dc.identifier.issn2224-7890 (Online)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10394/27090
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.7166/28-3-1840
dc.identifier.urihttp://sajie.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/1840/805
dc.description.abstractThe ever-increasing cost of energy puts industries under pressure. Industries are forced to monitor their energy consumption and to manage energy more efficiently and responsibly. Some industrial companies have multiple operations spread out over a wide area, making it logistically difficult to get a holistic view of the company’s energy performance. Valuable information is freely available in the form of electricity bills. However, to benefit from the information in the bills, the data should be extracted and analysed, which is a time-consuming process. In this paper, a need for an automated centralised system that extracts and analyses electricity data from bills was identified. The methodology for extracting, organising, and presenting the electricity bill information is explained in detail. The system is implemented for a gold mining company, and the results are interpreted and discussed. It was found that the system is beneficial for companies with many operations. As the number of operations increases, the value of automated bill analysis increasesen_US
dc.description.abstractDie kostes verbonde aan elektrisiteit in Suid-Afrika neem vinnig toe en die befondsingshekkie vir energiebesparinginsentiewe verminder. Daarom, met die toenemende internasionale mededinging en operasionele kostes, moet marginale industrieë fokus op energiebestuurstrategieë waar groot besparings met klein kapitaalbestedings verwesenlik kan word. ʼn Behoefte aan ʼn omvattende energiebestuur informasiestelsel word uiteengesit in hierdie artikel. Energiebestuur slaggate word uitgelig en energiebesparinginsentiewe word bespreek. Nuwe fokuspunte wat kliëntbewustheid verbeter en gevolglik die volhoubaarheid van energiebestuuringrypings verhoog word ook uitgelig. Om voordeel te trek uit energiebesparings word egter meer ingewikkeld en gevolglik ly baie kliënte daaronder, behalwe as hulle industriekenners betrek. Hierdie industriekenners vereis egter groot hoeveelhede data om ʼn kliënt se energie effektief te bestuur. Daarin lê die noodsaak vir ʼn omvattende energiebestuur informasiestelsel. So ʼn energiebestuur informasiestelsel is ontwikkel en geïmplementeer vir verskeie industrieë in Suid-Afrika. Data is outomaties ingesamel, geprosesseer, analiseer en voorgehou op ʼn daaglikse basis. ʼn Gevallestudie ondersoek die enorme hoeveelheid data en verslae wat outomaties bestuur word. Dit beklemtoon die behoefte aan ʼn omvattende energiebestuur informasiestelsel
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniv Stellenboschen_US
dc.titleAutomated electricity bill analysis in South Africaen_US
dc.typePresentationen_US
dc.contributor.researchID12317845 - Vosloo, Jan Corné
dc.contributor.researchID25890484 - Mathews, Marc John
dc.contributor.researchID20368771 - Goosen, Pieter


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