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38 Autumn 2018 European Energy Innovation

COMMUNICATION

Railway system
energy management

By Daniel Krištofík (pictured), Director, Service Department, sféra, a. s.

Sféra, a.s. was founded in 1992, and this activity was supplemented with on the carrier's size. Even a small
since then the company has become the design, supply and support of percentage saving means a significant
established in sustainable development business information systems for reduction of the carrier`s costs.
on the IT market, with a long-term the energy sector and as well as sféra, a.s. has been dealing with cost
focus on the sectors of power consulting, advice and analyses. optimisation since 2009. A team of
engineering, transport and industry. experts has succeeded in developing
The company aims its research unique products focused on the
Since its establishment, the and development at perspective solution of cost optimisation and the
company has been focusing on fields of data analysis, smart grids, preparation of data that is necessary
the research, development, supply artificial intelligence (AI) primarily for to adopt strategic decisions.
and implementation of technically- the sectors of energy, transport and
oriented graphic information systems maintenance. Our knowledge comes from practice.
and on the digital processing of At present, an energy control room
cartographic and map works. Its ENERGY EFFICIENCY ON RAILWAYS? system has been used by a SR
solutions cover the processes of LET`S GET DOWN TO IT! infrastructure manager and the
asset management and maintenance At present, the monitoring and two biggest carriers in the Slovak
management as well as the optimisation of consumption of Republic, Železničná spoločnosť
processes of the life cycle of large traction electricity and diesel have Slovensko, a. s. and Železničná
technological units owned by big been an issue which almost every spoločnosť Cargo Slovakia, a. s..
industrial and energy companies. carrier wants to find. Carriers' costs
It also covers the processes of of traction electricity and diesel The companies have profited from
investment, construction, and the range from hundreds of thousands the system mainly in the following
design of energy networks. Later, to millions of euros a year, depending fields:

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