Overview: How PUMA can work for you
Designed by Prism Engineering, Prism Utility Monitoring & Analysis, or PUMA, is a tool that helps you achieve your energy and carbon management goals. All of PUMAs features are designed to provide the information you need to accurately monitor your energy use, set achievable targets, and easily and effectively report on the results.
New feature
At-a-glance Scorecard
At-a-glance, see the impact of your consumption, emissions, and cost management as measured against a specified period. Green downward arrows indicate avoidance/savings, while red arrows pointing up indicate increased use. The totals culminate in a Cost Avoidance value, so you know exactly how you’re doing. Use the ‘Period’ drop down select to change the display between fiscal year, calendar year and last 12 months.
New feature
Customizable Dashboard
For more granular views, the dashboard allows you to toggle between Energy Consumption, Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Costs by year. View four customizable dashboard tiles for each tab to help you turn your "data" into actionable "information.” You can also customize how you view your project by grouping, month, metric and save custom reports.
New feature
Live Meters for Real-time Monitoring
The Live Meters feature allows you to see real time electric consumption by meter, so you can easily monitor your energy consumption. Customize your view based on 5-minute intervals, past 24 hours, or past 3 months. Submetering is required for this functionality,
or we can install a 3rd party meter to communicate with your smart meter.
New feature
Analytics & GHG Planning
PUMA has developed a sophisticated way to plan, monitor and track your greenhouse gas emissions goals, helping you to reach your 2030, 2040 and 2050 reduction commitments. With the new GHG Planning module you can now create up to 3 different reduction target scenarios, allowing you to track initiatives and progress at shorter intervals to see impacts and ensure you meeting the net zero goal for 2050. The new module allows you to create a plan for projects in general or dial into specific sites that may have special performance initiatives or retrofits. The ability to create different scenarios allows you to compare and track which scenarios have the greatest impacts.
Manage 1 or 10,000 meters
PUMA is an on-demand, software-as-a-service program that allows you to track your electrical, gas, fuel, and water utilities and manages your greenhouse gas emissions. The software is hosted on our web servers and therefore, no installation or programming is necessary - all you need is an internet connection.
Track your savings
With our PUMA software, you can track savings effectively through weather normalization, baseline adjustments, regression modelling, energy, emissions, and cumulative sum reports. Compare utility consumption and emissions across multiple facilities, consolidate several utility accounts at once or create graphs that display actual consumption trends.
Government-approved software
PUMA software has been approved by the government of British Columbia’s Ministry of Citizens’ Services (Purchasing Services Branch) as a pre-qualified supplier of Utility Data Management Services. The PUMA software system features a Clean Government Reporting Tool (CGRT) to easily fulfill Government regulatory requirements for
Public Sector Organizations.
Save 4 - 6% on your utility costs
Clear, customized reports and customer support from industry experts make it easy to identify opportunities to save energy. PUMA provides the energy information you need to identify cost savings, reduce emissions, and correct problems before they get too big. Several PUMA users have identified sufficient savings in their first months of using the program to cover the cost of the software for the entire year.
Built by a trusted engineering firm
PUMA is supported by the extensive know-how of Prism Engineering, a company with over 30 years of experience in energy management and utility accounting (including CUSUM analysis). Knowledgeable staff is available to ensure that you can maximize your energy savings and provide you with excellent customer service that you can count on.
Sample Projects
BC Housing
PUMA helped this crown corporation track GHG emissions at over 400 housing sites to honour its environmental commitments to future generations.
Department of Fisheries & Oceans
PUMA offered an invaluable energy-tracking tool to this federal department entrusted with protecting West Coast marine resources.
Get started by learning more about PUMA
Our hassle free setup includes data input, utility bill consolidation and baseline creation. We provide live training on the tool and ongoing technical support. Let us show you how easy energy monitoring, tracking and reporting can be.
Register for a FREE demonstration and get an evaluation of potential savings.
Client Testimonials
“PUMA and Prism teams have been great partners in helping BC Housing with our annual GHG reporting and compliance with BC’s Carbon Neutral Government Regulation. Despite the challenges of having ever growing and complex portfolios, their expertise and experience have been instrumental in consolidating complex energy and emissions data and providing insights to inform our emissions reduction and energy
management planning.”
Manager, Commissioning Construction Services,
BC Housing
“When a new smart-meter was installed incorrectly at one of West Vancouver School District’s secondary schools - resulting in data loss for several months, the PUMA team notified the district of the issue early on. When the problem was corrected and revised figures were issued the PUMA team had already updated the system before the district thought to ask. The Secretary-Treasurer of the school district was soundly impressed and expressed her sincere thanks.”
West Vancouver School District
“As part of the initial setup for Burnaby Schools, Prism obtained a complete account history statement for the water accounts from the City of Burnaby to that included the actual fees paid for each month – depending on whether early payment discounts were applied. This resulted in more precise costs than were captured in their previous system ‘Utility Manager’, and their Energy Manager was duly impressed with the results.”
Energy Manager for School District 41 Burnaby Schools
