A new wireless energy monitoring system which gives businesses real-time energy consumption statistics can ‘significantly extend’ the energy savings achieved when replacing ‘traditional’ commercial lighting system with LEDs, energy efficiency company, Minimise Energy maintains.
The Minimise Monitoring and Control System, powered by Realtime Online, can be used to ‘benchmark’ consumption patterns and ‘influencing environmental factors’ ahead of a lighting refurbishment programme, and ‘long term’, to identify ongoing energy efficiency opportunities in a room, building, or across an estate.
The system collects data via radio frequency from meters and battery-operated wireless sensors attached to specific circuits. In most instances, the sensors are simply clipped into place, and require no additional wiring, or a split-core voltage current transformer is used. In ‘90% of applications’ existing equipment can remain in use during the installation.
Minimise Energy added: “Most such units collect data over a 24-hour period, aggregating it to provide consumption information, but this system provides reported data constantly, giving a much clearer picture of energy use and the factors impacting consumption.”
The resulting data can be used by to identify opportunities for improvement, and by Minimise's energy efficiency specialists ‘to devise a bespoke LED solution for each business’s individual energy profile’.
Nigel Dawson, monitoring and controls product director, added: “The system can be used to monitor existing fluorescent outputs and the like-for-like savings LEDs can bring.”
