Commercial Buildings

The shops, supermarkets, malls and other commercial sites cannot be satisfied to see his energy bills continuously increase, increase, increase without reacting. It is directly the profitability of the activity that is called into question.
But it can be extremely complex to identify the major consumption items and the possible sources of savings:
• Electricity meters are connected to a beginning of analysis but often very imprecise because they have no real knowledge of the equipment installed and their use and are content to deduce an approximate distribution of consumption and generally 30 to 50% is allocated to “other uses”.
• Water, a major cost item, is also a real unknown because we are too often satisfied with a single overall consumption meter with periodic readings spaced out over time, allowing practically no interpretation
• Situation often similar for possible sources of fossil energy such as gas, fuel oil whose consumption measurements remain global and in time shifts

SILENO e3m is designed with BIG DATA in mind (3V rules: see the “link” techno page: Volume, Velocity, Variety) to collect as much information as possible and as much as possible in real time. Only a massive acquisition of this type of information will allow the fine analysis to identify the sources of immediate savings.

Points of sale must ensure a level of customer comfort: quality of lighting, comfortable temperature & humidity conditions, efficient and discreet ventilation, air quality, pleasant and non-intrusive sound environment… and many more other settings.
This overall comfort in the experience of the place of sale participates or even is predominant in the duration of the customer’s presence. Or all the statistics show a clear correlation between the amount spent and the duration of the customer’s presence in the store.
In other words, the more pleasant the customer’s visit experience, the higher his bill and the merchant’s profit will be. Similarly, a comfortable office is the guarantee of retaining its tenants.
The very basis of energy efficiency is to meet this need: to offer the same comfort and the same services without any concessions but consuming less (see the energy efficiency page – link).
SILENO e3m has the ability, different from technical management systems such as BMS for example, to be able to correlate source data as different as the technical data of the energy consumed by the point of sale, whatever the energy, with data outdoor weather or customer traffic data.

A commentary from the academic co-director of CERRE, Professor Nils-Henrik M. von der Fehr, May 2022 (source cerre.eu)
“Rising energy prices have put considerable strain on the energy market. The most obvious implication is increased consumer bills, but more basic, power distribution is shaken to its foundations. Contracts have been broken, distributors have gone bankrupt and governments have brought back energy measures to support the market and compensate those who have been harmed.
This unprecedented rise in energy prices was impossible to predict. Consequently, it may seem unfair to criticize possibly being ill-prepared, whether consumers under variable price contracts, energy distributors who had not hedged their exposure to wholesale prices or regulatory authorities who were not prepared. “
However, the crisis is there and will probably be for a long time and companies, in particular in the retail sector, a large consumer of energy and for whom the relative bills weigh very heavily on budgets, must face up.
This is the paradox of the current crisis: retail budgets have not provided for investments linked to energy reduction and energy-related costs are exploding. It’s a double jeopardy.
SILENO e3m offers innovative methods of financing its solutions that allow you to reduce your energy-related costs: economy of use, economy of functionality, scalable localization… All these solutions can be adapted to your case and allow you to withstand this period of crisis.