Health Care Buildings

It’s obvious, the bills will explode and the budget forecasts with it. On the supplier side, very few solutions are available to healthcare establishments: energy inflation is generic and transversal. Even if switching from one supplier to another will allow some savings, it will be far from enough. The solution therefore involves energy efficiency: reducing consumption without reducing comfort or the services provided. Certainly, the alpha is knowledge of consumption, following the adage: you can only improve what you can measure. The SILENO e3m platform is there to take care of the acquisition of all the data, their archiving and their analysis.
Thanks to this information, e3m helps you find immediate sources of savings. For example, ANAP in France estimates that a 30% saving is possible by adapting consumption to usage, for example by placing presence detectors to judge whether or not the premises are being used. e3m will allow you to correlate any type of data and check the use of places and consumption. A very simple example: water leaks estimated at the national level at 15 to 20% of the distribution. Considering that on average in a hospital, water consumption amounts to 85 to 100 liters of water per day and per bed and 75 liters per day and per bed for a retirement home, a saving even of 10% in identifying part of the leaks using e3m’s analysis tools is already a very substantial and immediate saving.

Often thousands of square meters, often old installations with little or no digitization, complex buildings, impossible connections, meters here or there but no or few sub-meters per service or per building…
Technology is there to help you, in particular IOT (Internet of Things) sensors: sensors communicating for miles through buildings, wirelessly, operating on battery power for years and capable of measuring all types of physical quantities.
The last few years have seen the appearance of a new generation of sensors under the generic name LPWA: Low-Power Wide-Area. These sensors use wireless communication networks comparable to the communications of our telephones but using technologies that only allow the transmission of simple and limited information and in a relatively slow way (<1 second) compared to the race for 3G performance, 4G, 5G…. On the other hand, these networks allow the sensors to consume very little and therefore to be able to operate for several years on a simple battery and to have very substantial radio ranges of up to tens of km. We can cite the technologies LORAWAN, SIGFOW, NB-I0OT or even LTE-M…
SILENO has integrated all of these protocols, which allows you to freely place any type of sensor without installation or connection constraints to collect all the data you need to manage the energy efficiency of your installations. For example, one of the points often encountered is to have main meters for water, electricity, gas… but no sub-meters allowing the measurement of the consumption of a building, a service… IOT sensors LPWA then allow you to easily install a metering point wherever necessary.

The financing of the health sector hospitals, clinics, retirement homes is already a difficult case and the investment capacities are limited but the energy crisis worsens the difficulties with the considerable and unexpected increase in the costs and unavoidable expenses related to the energy. This further reduces investment capacity.
However, there are solutions…
On a technical level, a lot of information is already available, certainly more information than one can imagine. The field of healthcare buildings is in fact the one that is probably the most equipped in terms of equipment supervision: BMS systems, SCADA supervision of equipment such as boiler rooms, laundries, HVAC, access control and security, etc. However, all of its systems are autonomous and independent of each other, and do not use the same data and communication standards. SILENO e3m was designed as a cognitive solution with the ability to connect to all types of control systems and collect data from them. Thus all the data scattered in all these systems are federated within e3m and already allow you a different and global vision of your installations;
On the financial level, SILENO with its financial partners offer you innovative solutions in scalable financial leasing for example, which allow you to avoid a massive investment in a system at the moment t, in favor of a simple rental with a cost spread over a period of time of your choice, and which allows you to develop, ensure maintenance to avoid obsolescence, change or complete your e3m energy efficiency management installation.