The Sustainable Development Paradigm as a Determinant of Information System Development Oriented to Energy Consumption Monitoring Based on Promar FM Platform

The sustainable development paradigm plays a significant role in achieving the balance in three main areas: economic, social and environmental. The energy issues and optimization of energy consumption is one of key element to cost savings and minimalizing the negative impact on environment, what is important for current and future generations. Improving the energy efficiency as a global priority is provided in many sectors like transport, industry, agriculture or construction. While the construction sector is one of the largest energy consumers in the world, improving energy efficiency in buildings requires more innovative and advanced solutions. The energy efficiency is nowadays increased not only by investments in innovative technologies and energy infrastructure, applying renewable energy sources, sensors, smart energy meters but also by the information systems applications that allows to monitor and adjust the energy production and consumption. The role of IT systems is more and more important to track, report, recommend and implement more effective strategies to manage the energy sources and recommend their better utilization. Nevertheless the problem, which exists and is often underlined regards the integration of data from different sources to provide complex analysis and control. In the article is presented the approach to deliver facility management system oriented to complex analysis of energy efficiency in different contexts. The system allows to integrate and proceed the real-time data from various external units to provide multi-aspects analysis allowing for improvement the energy efficiency indicators and cost savings.