Energy Consumption Monitoring and Optimization with Autoliv

We are committed to operating our business in an environmentally sustainable manner and developing and producing products energy-efficiently while preventing pollution and limiting our environmental impact. We are constantly trying to reduce waste, energy consumption, CO2e emissions, and water usage at our facilities.

Reducing the environmental impact of Autoliv’s industrial activities is also a matter of focus to ensure long-term business. We are facing increasing energy costs, and thus, we see great potential in improving our capabilities to monitor and reduce our energy consumption across several of our product lines at plant, production line, and machine levels. Real-time visibility and intelligent control of our energy consumption could help us decrease product costs, stay competitive, and efficiently use the planet’s resources.

Based on our observations, several technologies are available today to monitor energy consumption. In addition, intelligent solutions to track and optimize facilities, machine conditions, and energy usage in real-time have become more accessible. These new solutions are opportunities to maximize energy utilization at Autoliv facilities further, and we’d like to hear from innovative solution providers in this field.

We aim to pilot and implement automatic, accurate time energy consumption monitoring and optimization systems. To achieve this, we invite the most talented startup teams and growing technology companies to work with us on some of the most significant industrial opportunities in energy saving.
We believe that all of our energy consumption can be tracked and optimized. According to our vision, an optimal solution would enable our skilled operators working at production lines and facilities to receive accurate feedback on normal and abnormal energy consumption conditions and help them make better decisions in real-time.

We envision an energy optimization system that crunches different sensory data inputs, learns from possible patterns in the data, and can provide real-time feedback to the operators. Ideally, The plan would include several energy consumption data inputs such as electricity usage, compressed air, gas, water, and other possible information. The gathering and analysis of the data should be granular enough to identify abnormalities and suggest preventive actions to be taken. The system should be able to display the data in an understandable dashboard for real-time- and historical data analysis. About gathering various data inputs, we are looking for plug-and-play hardware components that could be implemented in a cost-efficient manner.

Below you can read more on some elements of the solution we envision to have for such systems. If you think you have a solution that could be of value to us in one or several of these elements, don’t hesitate to contact us!