What is smart energy management for those who must carry this out in several or thousands of buildings? The key here is energy analytics, with its first basic steps to detecting the greatest potential savings, and advanced analysis tools to achieve the level of detail that we want.
We’ll tell you what an advanced energy analysis should be like for a buildings portfolio, whatever their size, and how to detect the savings potential hidden in their buildings. Keep reading…
Of the many ISO certifications that exist, one, in particular, affects the facility management (FM) sector. Since 2018, ISO 41001:2018 provides a framework for developing, implementing and maintaining effective facility management. In this article, we review how it can benefit your facilities.
You’ve heard a lot lately about gamification and its application in various fields – such as gamification for energy management – but does it refer exactly to the use of games?
Not exactly, although it’s related to game theory. To better understand what gamification is and what it’s all about, we’ll tell you about it below.
Whether you manage a single restaurant or thousands of locations in a chain, it’s important to understand the energy behaviour of your facilities. And as the saying goes, you can’t manage what you don’t monitor. A smart system helps you get the full picture of what’s going on in your building(s) so you can make energy-intelligent business decisions for your restaurant chain.
What’s more today’s data-driven energy management solutions can optimise and even maximise that savings potential. These smart systems also tend to keep customers, kitchen staff, and service staff more comfortable and productive. Increased comfort and lower energy costs are a no brainer!
The concept of predictive maintenance is a methodology totally related to energy management, since it is based on the measurement and monitoring of the state of the installations, giving recommendations that will produce great savings. The PRÓTYPO Project aims to build a tool to carry out this methodology in energy management.
DEXMA leads PRÓTYPO Project oriented towards the detection of anomalies at the energy level via chatbot. I you would like to know more about it, read on!
Restaurants are among the most energy-intensive tertiary sector buildings in Europe, using anywhere from 3 to 10x the amount of energy used by the average commercial building, and can account for anywhere from 4-6% of operating costs according to The Carbon Trust. Finding intelligent ways to overcome these challenges while increasing the comfort of your customers is an essential way to make you their superhero, not to mention a winner with your colleagues!
The idea behind this post is to share some demonstrated examples of best practices for Smart Restaurants that can be used to transform energy waste into savings in the food service and catering sector.
The energy manager’s daily to do list is no doubt a long one, with more than a few headaches to solve. But what happens when energy managers are asked to prioritise their tasks and priorities, not just for one day, but the entire year?
At DEXMA, our curiosity got the best of us! We asked our energy manager community, and they answered.
Here is what we found out when it comes to the top energy manager priorities for this year:
Last December we launched our annual survey for the third consecutive year. Today we are excited to share our crowdsourced overview of the energy management industry in 2018 – finally we have the results!
More than 250 energy professionals from around the world have responded to our questions, so in this post we highlight 10 lessons learned from the report:
Since October 2017, DEXMA’s Research, Development and Innovation team has been involved in a new R&D+i project called RESPOND (Integrated demand REsponse Solution towards energy POsitive NeighbourhooDs).
DEXMA intends to use its wealth of experience in advanced energy analytics to boost demand-side management capacity in 3 residential test pilot sites in 3 different European countries. Through the RESPOND project, these residential communities will take their first steps toward demand response: one of the fastest-growing areas of energy innovation.
You might have read our energy productivity glossary of terms article where you can find a dictionary of basic concepts that will appeal to even the most advanced energy managers. But even if you are a non-energy professional interested in energy saving and energy management, they will surely be useful! In this article, we take […]
Would you change your energy consumption behaviour if you had an app or interactive game in your home, on your tablet or PC to help you? This is one of the main objectives of FEEdBACk, an H2020 project that aims to use energy efficiency gamification techniques to promote smarter energy consumption through ICT applications.
Although you may not believe it, one of the energy manager’s worst nightmares is to answer their client’s energy efficiency questions – even the most basic ones! They can be tough to answer fully and completely, while trying to be specific to each project and situation. Yet, many energy managers still lose projects for this reason.
To make sure this doesn’t happen to you, we analysed 5 of the most common energy efficiency questions that typically come up in energy project conversations and outlined how to give a simple and clear answer.
