Upgrading the AMR, live metering and sub-metering applications with t-mac, businesses can incorporate CONTROL. By connecting t-mac to lighting, heating, air-conditioning, refrigeration, compressors and other energy intensive equipment within a building or site the system can highlight opportunities for energy reduction by identifying unnecessary use and ultimately controlling aforementioned equipment to reduce use and cost to the company.
Control of heating, lighting, air condition, refrigeration and compressors alone can improve energy reduction targets from 15 per cent to 30 per cent by simply switching things off at night, reducing set-point controls and ensuring counteractive equipment isn’t operating at the same time, for example air conditioning operational while heating is on.
Energy management should be about best practice, not only identifying consumption (mains meter) and identifying inefficiencies (sub-metering) but about reducing excess consumption and eradicating waste (through control).
An immediate opportunity is being able to stop air conditioning fighting heating systems; in most cases t-mac has found that a boiler is running 24/7 but the staff, to stop heating of the building, simply turn down the radiators and then switch on the air conditioning. Other quick wins with adding CONTROL through t-mac is to (i) manage time-clocks which independently run a variety of equipment within the building and are usually out of sync and manage (ii) temperature set-point control to remove the varying temperature set-points often caused by staff increasing and decreasing temperatures within the building
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