RESOURCE DATA MANAGEMENT
LOOKING TO THE FUTURE:
ENERGY
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AGENDA
COMPANY OVERVIEW
THE THREE I’S
• INNOVATION
• INTEGRATION
• INSPIRATION
ENERGY SAVING EXAMPLES
SUMMARY
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COMPANY OVERVIEW
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Formed in 2000
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Based in Glasgow, Scotland
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Annual turnover approx $15M
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Employ 100 staff in the UK
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Over 300 customers around the world
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RDM owned Manufacturing subsidiary
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Software Development subsidiary in Delhi,
India
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Global monitoring based in Glasgow
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INNOVATION
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INNOVATION
Benchmark Minimum Standards
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Future proofed systems whilst being legacy equipment compatible
Enables integration to existing systems and equipment to avoid having to fit
replacements.
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Open communications IP protocol
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Easier to integrate
Easier to adapt to future innovations
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Web based, browser accessed
Smart phone/Tablet
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No proprietary access software required
No annual licence fees
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Global, multi point accessibility
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INTEGRATION
Joining up the standalone dots
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INTEGRATION
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By gaining visibility of everything that is using energy including water, you can use the data
from different systems to influence operational actions
For example sharing HVAC Humidity data to influence trim heater control
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Integration allows the modifying of control strategies, adding new control strategies on top
of existing controls based on a larger number of existing data points
This opens up the application of efficient control strategies where there were none
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System visibility helps to locate and identify problem areas
There are many systems operating in isolation, often conflicting with other systems. The
conflict only showing up in the utility bills or poor functionality
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With real time monitoring and control you can maintain an automatic tight grip on the
efficiency levels achieved
If you wait until the main utility meter has recorded the higher energy consumption you
have already lost the savings.
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All operating in the background 24/7/365 and visible locally and remotely for maintenance
purposes.
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INTEGRATION OF RENEWABLES DATA
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INSPIRATION
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INSPIRATION
Inspired Integration—what to do with the data?
• Once connected, the previously standalone equipment can offer up to the
control and monitoring systems their valuable logged historical data
• This “before” data has been and is continuing to be used to evaluate various
trials of new gases, new valves, parameter change trials, variable speed drive
applications, any new system of operation is able to be validated
before/during/after, every action is logged, every reaction recorded in real
time almost always without the need for repetitive time consuming and
expensive site visits.
• This speeds up the initiative validation process, provides the backup data to
tick all the boxes required by finance, risks to stock and trading, engineering
and maintenance .
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ENERGY SAVING
EXAMPLES
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TRIM HEATER CONTROL
Simple and generally the easiest,
quickest, energy reduction win that is
possible without switching it off
altogether
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The energy and financial savings involved for a typical supermarket with 30 cases is:
30kw standing load
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Assuming 1kw trim heater per case =
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Typical minimum savings pa with trim heater control of 50% = 15kw x 24 x 365 =131400kwh
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At 8p per kwh this is an annual saving of
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400 stores produce an annual saving of
£10,512 per store
£4.2 million.
Is it worth doing---YES!
How many extra frozen pizzas do you need to sell to add £4.2 million profit to the bottom line?
How do we know it is still working—should we maintain these savings we are counting on?
The solution is to monitor that the trim heater energy reduction is not faltering or
failed by integrating the data back into the supervisory system in real time.
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BENEFITS OF INTEGRATION
Load shedding opportunities are not easy in a retail environment
even more so on food refrigeration
A networked integrated system opens up load shedding possibilities to switch off or
reduce the trim heater loads on a store by store basis or globally across the estate.
Using the previous example the controlled and reduced trim heater load of 15kw per
store x 400 stores there is a potential to shed 6 Megawatts simultaneously off the
grid.
Valuable in terms of Triad capacity charge reduction in the winter period.
Due to thermal inertia the switching off of the trims for short periods will generally go
unnoticed in the store, but it is dependent on case type and store environmental
conditions.
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NIGHT BLINDS
Following the capital outlay of installing night
blinds:
• Are your night blinds being used correctly…?
• Do we wait for the bad surprise in the energy bill?
We can detect non usage and flag maintenance
warnings.
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NIGHT BLINDS USAGE DETECTION
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SUMMARY
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We need to have sight of every energy consuming element.
If it is unseen it cannot be constantly monitored and controlled for maximum
sustained efficiency.
We can expand the existing refrigeration network to connect to HVAC, Lighting,
Metering as a minimum.
This gives visibility and opens up integrated control and novel application
possibilities.
Information and communications technology is a key enabler to energy
efficiency and sustainability.
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Putting YOU in CONTROL
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