AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Site Controls today announced the availability of the Exceptions Dashboard™, a new capability within the Site-Command™ Data Center offering a higher level of operational intelligence for retailers, restaurants and banks. The Exceptions Dashboard will enable companies to effectively control store-level energy expenses, provide consistent customer comfort across all locations and significantly reduce carbon emissions.
The Exceptions Dashboard leverages the real-time asset, energy and environmental data of the ASP-hosted Data Center to automatically prioritize locations within a chain based on site conditions, allowing energy managers and facility professionals to focus their efforts to achieve maximum impact. In a traditional Energy Management System (EMS), each device and/or site generates its own set of alarms, which are then faxed to headquarters or logged via an alarm server. This uncoordinated site-by-site approach can result in thousands of alarms each day, overwhelming facilities staff and making it impossible to identify critical issues affecting energy costs or customer comfort. In contrast, the Site-Command system captures all pertinent site and equipment metrics in an ‘above-site’ ASP-hosted data center, where a sophisticated rules engine constantly examines HVAC, lighting, refrigeration, freezer and other asset data to categorize locations based on the number and severity of site exceptions.
“We come across retailers and restaurant operators every day who are ‘drowning in data’ as a result of an antiquated approach to alarm management,” said Dan Kubala, Vice President of Marketing for Site Controls. “With the Exceptions Dashboard, we leverage the power of web-based technologies to automatically prioritize all the locations in your chain based on site conditions, so you can focus limited resources where they will have the most positive and significant impact.”
The Data Center release also includes the new Site-Command QuickView™, which provides a comprehensive overview of site conditions in a single webpage with one-click access to configuration and schedule data. Temperature and device exceptions for each site are displayed using natural language messages, reducing guesswork and diagnostic time. Combined with the Exceptions Dashboard, these tools enable energy and facilities professionals to quickly drill down from high-level site trends to identify specific equipment issues and root causes.
“The key challenge in building automation boils down to information management,” said Colin Bester, Chief Technology Officer of Site Controls. “Our customers are absolutely swamped with the day-to-day activities of running their businesses. They need an energy management system that helps them quickly identify what issues need to be addressed immediately. There is an amazing wealth of information available in EMS systems, but if you can’t cost-effectively capture it and make sense of it to change your business, it’s worthless.”
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