Site Controls Energy Management Platform Key Components
Unlike traditional EMS offerings, Site Controls is delivered as an integrated platform. This approach maximizes energy savings over time by enabling chain operators to efficiently and effectively manage the performance of their site portfolios.
- Overview
Site Controls Client Services
A key differentiator of the Site Controls methodology is the dedicated Client Services Manager. Your Client Service Manager provides domain knowledge as it relates to energy efficiency and ultimately, lowers your total capital and operating energy expenditures. Your Client Service Manager works closely with your team to apply the necessary resources to your program to ensure success, including:
Conducts service and Data Center training
Crafts and implements supporting process functions
Serves as your voice to Site Controls extended team
Provides insight into industry trends and developments.
Sets strategic objectives and executes tactics to achieve those goals.
Conducts monthly key performance indicator reviews.
Holds quarterly and bi-annual Business Reviews for stakeholders.
Site Controls Intelligent Load Management
Demand Response (DR) programs are designed to indirectly benefit the grid and the utilities that serve them and directly benefit participating businesses by providing financial incentives and the ability to keep businesses operating by avoiding a blackout. Traditional demand response programs have been manual, or semi-automated, requiring management resources to administer, and placing the stores at risk. With Intelligent Load Management, chain operators can maximize DR revenues while reducing risk, through an automated, aggregated platform.
Site Controls Intelligent Load Management provides unique functionality, including:
Allows you to set specific business rules around your participation. These rules allow you to decide what devices within your facility you want to include based on the severity of the grid event.
Enables energy reduction at your sites to occur through a variety of methods, including cycling your HVAC units, increasing air conditioning set‐points, turning off a portion of your lighting, and controlling the use of other energy‐intensive processes. This means that if an event is called the platform polls every enrolled site on the network and takes out the least consequential load first.
Is entirely automated so there is no need for any manual participation within your facilities and it allows us to participate in Automated Demand Response programs, which provide higher incentive payments to participating businesses.
To learn more, download the Intelligent Load Management Overview from the document library.
Site Controls Cloud Based Data Center
A key component of the Site Controls platform is the cloud-based Data Center that provides advanced energy reporting, operational dashboards, and comprehensive site analytics.
Utilizing a secure, persistent Internet connection, the Site Controls Data Center constantly verifies that the Controller and its peripheral sensors/controllers are performing correctly. Reliability is further enhanced because the system was designed to operate autonomously, and independently of outside control according to a preconfigured rule set. That rule set provides ongoing calendar schedule based HVAC control, lighting control and dynamic load control based on local site conditions. Local control is never compromised if the broadband connection is unavailable.
The Site Controls Data Center features sophisticated analytics and dashboards. As a hosted solution, it is continually updated with new capabilities and enhancements which encapsulate business requirements across our customer base, resulting in lower cost of ownership and access to industry best practices.
Site Controls On Site Controller
The Site Controls Controller utilizes the latest hardware and software technologies and open architecture standards to ensure future upgrade paths and scalability. The On Site Controller is web-enabled, scalable and reliable and offers on-site control of your energy-consuming equipment.
Features include:
Controls lighting, HVAC, refrigeration and signage
Monitors indoor and outdoor temperature, humidity, light levels, cycles, pressures, current, etc.
Software & mounted overrides with programmable configuration
Browser-based monitoring, controls and reporting
Digital multi lever priority notification engine
Remote restart of HVAC and refrigeration
Access to equipment performance data on demand
Maintenance diagnostics and consumption
Advanced scheduling for single or multiple Sites
Advanced grouping capabilities for controls
Load control strategies demand limiting
Dynamic load shedding
Redundant HVAC and lighting defaults in event of system failure
Intuitive user interface
Variable polling frequency with all historical data maintained
To learn more, download the On Site Controller document from the document library.
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