Energy efficiency
The following scenario happens much more often than you might think: someone walks into an empty office building in the morning to find that the lights, heating, and air conditioning have been on all night, even though no one was in the building. Why would you pay huge electricity bills that could easily be avoided? Plus, it’s bad for our environment because of the increased CO2 emissions. This is an extreme example, but we can easily break it down into an even more common one: unused building space incurs significant costs, as rooms are often lit and heated even when no one is working in them.
Networked sensors provide intelligent usage management and efficient control of lighting, heating, shading, ventilation and air conditioning. Our wireless switches and sensors, which communicate using various radio standards (EnOcean, Bluetooth, Zigbee, LoRaWAN), are the way to smart buildings. They efficiently and intelligently control lighting, heating, shading, ventilation and air conditioning based on demand, helping to reduce energy consumption and, obviously, eliminating any unnecessary costs.
Solutions from Sotass
The basis of the project should be the energy efficiency of automation operation in the part responsible for controlling the equipment that consumes the most energy in your business (lighting modules and sections with switches, chillers and ventilation chambers, boiler rooms and diesel, refrigeration units and their controllers). That is why all the devices we supply for such automation are wireless and most of them do not require additional power from the network or battery power and are powered by collecting dynamic energy (the force with which you pressed the switch to turn on or off the lamp creates energy) which is enough for the sensor to transmit a signal up to 30 meters (to the nearest controller or another IoT sensor), collecting light energy (from indoor lamps or solar outside the walls of the building), collecting temperature energy inside and outside your building (Peltier element and DC converter in one IoT device). Almost all of the automation equipment that Sotass integrates into your building does not increase the amount of monthly expenses for your business, because we understand the value of a business's investment in the project and are responsible for the realistic return on investment (ROI). Sotass does not start an energy efficiency project without calculating the ROI.
Where to start?
Modeling an energy efficiency project begins with a detailed analysis of those areas of the building that consume the most energy compared to others, then we conduct an audit of the operation of devices in these areas (lights, fans, air conditioners, heating elements, robots and industrial equipment), this allows us to present to the business all the opportunities for energy efficiency of the building and the business to choose the most important one taking into account the requirements for its own service (defined temperature or lighting indicators as a service, existing plans for replacing energy-consuming devices, etc.).