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Lighting sets the scene for every retail environment. Brightly lit windows and high
impact displays are fast becoming the trend in all retail outlets from high street
fashion label to corner shop boutique, however heavy investment in lighting is costly
not just in hard cash but also for the environment.
Lighting accounts for 25 – 30% of all energy use in retail stores. Too much lighting
impacts on overheating, excessive cooling of the building and over spending. Inadequate
air conditioning devices and heating appliances are also culprits of the increasing
energy consumption of retailers.
Significant amounts of energy is also wasted through poor house-keeping (staff leaving
machinery or PC equipment on standby, forgetting to turn room lights off, and not
lowering thermostat temperatures on warm days)
All of this wasted energy could be immediately saved through intelligent energy
management systems like t-mac; they can help to dramatically improve the way that
energy is managed around a site. Intelligent energy management systems could potentially
reduce a company’s lighting bills be as much as 45%. For heating there is an additional
potential saving of up to 6% for every 1C lowered on a thermostat.
Energy management is important not just for the environment but for reinforcing
company best practice. By installing an energy management device it will help reduce
costs on energy bills, and show customers that as a retailer you care for both the
retail and global atmosphere. It also creates a comfortable environment for shoppers
and ultimately helps retailers fall in line with energy regulations.
Acting as an early warning system for monitoring critical equipment in retail environments,
offering extensive remote logging, monitoring and process control capabilities,
the t-mac device assists retailers with this energy burden through the application
of energy efficient devices
t-mac operates over the Internet which means that users simply ‘log-on’ to a dedicated
web-page from any location to check the status of their equipment. By monitoring
and managing site-based equipment and conditions 24 hours a day, seven days a week,
t-mac removes the time and labour intensive role of monitoring and control. Up-to-date
information on: equipment conditions; associated wastage; energy and asset inefficiencies;
and costs in the form of interactive graphs, tables and gauges can also be viewed
via the web. Retailers can then determine and measure where and how much energy
is being used over a specific period and compare it to annual targets helping them
to reduce costs easily.
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