White Paper: Best Practices In HVAC Management

An astounding 35% of HVAC systems are broken, but in a retail enterprise, facilities managers don't know which ones need attention. While managing potentially thousands of RTUs across multiple locations around the U.S., retailers have no visibility to which HVACs are struggling until there's a catastrophic failure of multiple units and they finally get a complaint call. In the meantime, the retailer has wasted thousands of dollars in energy, because failed RTUs still consume electricity (even while making the situation worse) and functioning units consume even more electricity trying to compensate.

The good news is that facilities managers may not have to send someone onsite to repair broken systems, and they might find out that the problems are relatively minor. To gain this kind of control, these managers need enterprise-wide visibility to asset conditions in real-time, so they can prioritize which sites to focus on. In fact, with the right Energy Management System implemented, many HVAC issues can be addressed remotely; service calls can be avoided all together. Failed or broken units that are costing money can be diagnosed above-site, or even taken offline through an Internet connection that triggers the right controllers.

In this whitepaper, you'll learn tools and strategies for effectively managing down the impact of failed HVAC units without blowing your maintenance budget – just making it more efficient through above-site visibility and control. The cost-saving opportunities for facilities' managers are nothing short of dramatic, as they (A) help solve larger energy problems by reducing the need for fuels (or even new power plants), and (B) have extended service lives that lower the total cost of ownership in meaningful ways.