NHS Trust
Solving common controls issues to save energy Using a collaborative approach to energy efficiency, ecoDriver® Low Carbon Consultants identified & fixed building control issues which
Transform
Once your buildings and/or plant are operating, day-by-day, at their optimum, with minimised emissions, then the time is right to consider implementing those technologies that are going to help you decarbonise further.
From the preceding stages in your decarbonisation plan, you should have a prioritised list of appropriate solutions e.g. solar pv, air/ground source heat pumps, LED lighting, variable speed drives.
These should be implemented, in stages and their impact measured to ensure that the expected benefits are actually realised.
It’s important to continue to monitor consumption and generation to ensure that the objectives of your decarbonisation plan are realised and that the money you’ve spent is achieving the results that you desire and the world needs.
ecoDriver
The unique target setting capability in ecoDriver, enables us to monitor the impact of decarbonisation activity, including the installation of renewable and energy efficiency technologies.
An extensive investigation and report by Innovate UK in July 2016, of 50 UK non-domestic new buildings found that
‘…projects faced big problems integrating new technologies, especially configuring and optimising building management systems (BMSs). Some teams also had maintenance, controls and metering difficulties with their biomass boilers, photovoltaic arrays and solar water heaters. Additionally, one air-source heat pump (ASHP) had problems operating in cold weather’
So, whilst transformation is often about installing, exciting, shiny new renewables tech, it doesn’t mean we should forget the basics and verify that the promise of the technology is realised in practise.
Trusted By
Software to enable you tounderstand your energy performance
ecoDriverLite
ecoDriver Lite provides a simple entry level option for organisations who would like to take their first small step into understanding their buildings energy performance.
Your Page
Select from a number of chart options and create your own homepage displaying the information important to you and how you manage your buildings energy.
Charts
Simple and easy to understand charts to give you an ‘at a glance’ view of performance. Including daily, weekly, monthly and yearly energy profiles with targets normalised by occupants or GIA.
Reports
A suite of reports that can be manually run or exported. These reports can also be scheduled within ecoDriver Standard to generate automatically e.g. every Monday at 8am for the previous week.
Trend
Forensically analyse energy profile data e.g. kWh, Power, Current, Voltage. ecoDriver Standard can also support IoT data e.g. temperature, humidity, occupancy and air quality.
Notes
Record issues, anomalies and their causes, to supplement a buildings operational log book.
ecoDriverStandard
In addition to the features in the ecoDriver Lite version, the standard version includes the following features.
Dashboard
Utilise the ecoDriver widget in a digital signage system to communicate with a wider audience. The ecoDriver RISE Vision plugin can be incorporated with a number of other widgets. A separate RISE vision account is required.
Audit
Build your ‘energy champions’ team and work collaboratively to identify and resolve inefficient operation using the ecoDriver audit module. The audit module becomes your building operations logbook and tracks who has done what and when.
Comfort
It is not just about energy, what about comfort? Get feedback from occupants directly from their mobile phones to understand how building control settings are being received and whether adjustments cause discomfort e.g. lowering heating set points.
Manual Meter Readings
Where automated meter reading is not possible, organisations can manually record meter readings across estates to aid tenant billing. Automated error checking and authorised sign off flows minimise the potential for mistakes.
Data
Integrate with other business systems (e.g. ERP, reporting systems etc.) using the ecoDriver API or by exporting the data in CSV format.
Have questions? Give us a call and we’ll walk you through it. +44 (0) 1932 242 444
Powerful Alone, Better Together
Understand
On the road to decarbonisation, information, the combination of data and context, is your best friend.
The more we know about your organisation, its uses of energy and it’s consumption, the more significant opportunities we have to understand performance and facilitate change.
Act
Once you understand how your organisation uses and consumes energy, it’s now time to act.
We help organisations identify, quantify and reduce energy and emissions and maintain these savings, month-on-month, year-on-year.
Start your
Journey
Start your journey by contacting us today.
We will establish the stage you are at and recommend an appropriate next step for you
Case Studies
College
1 Building, 3 Energy Saving Opportunities, Zero Capital Cost Using a collaborative approach to energy efficiency, ecoDriver® Low Carbon Consultants identified & fixed building control