Airport Energy & Terminal Operations | EC.DATA
Airport Energy Management — Terminal, Airside & Tenant Metering
EC.DATA provides airports with full-building energy visibility from landside terminal HVAC to airside ground-support equipment — enabling kWh-per-passenger benchmarking, tenant cost recovery, and demand charge management.
Airport Energy Challenges
- No visibility into energy consumption by terminal, pier, or cost centre
- Baggage handling conveyor and belt systems running 24/7 at full power regardless of flight load
- Terminal HVAC poorly reset for seasonal and occupancy variation
- 400 Hz ground power unit (GPU) energy invisible to billing
- Airfield ground lighting (AGL) current regulator (CCR) efficiency unknown
- Tenant energy reconciliation is manual and disputed
EC.DATA Airport Solutions
- EC.Billing: automated tenant and concession sub-metering with invoice generation
- EC.PQ: substation power quality monitoring for sensitive airside equipment
- EC.EMS: baggage handling and HVAC energy benchmarking by terminal and shift
- EC.IoT: ground-power unit and boarding-bridge energy monitoring
- EC.GAIA: predictive HVAC scheduling based on flight manifest occupancy forecasts
- kWh-per-passenger and kWh-per-ATM KPI dashboards for management reporting
Airports: metering the invisible 40%
In most airports, 30–40% of electricity is consumed by systems that have no energy meter — baggage belts, jetbridges, GPU circuits, AGL CCRs, and tenant retail units all run on shared feeders with no allocation. EC.DATA's airport solution instruments these circuits with CT-based sub-meters connected via EC.Node, then applies tariff-aware allocation rules to generate tenant invoices and management KPIs. The result is a live kWh-per-passenger dashboard that operations and sustainability teams can use to set targets and measure initiatives.