Beyond LED bulbs: Smarter energy efficiency upgrades that drive ROI

Have you recently examined how smart your buildings are? Energy efficiency solutions underpin impactful energy management by optimising the performance of systems such as lighting, heating, ventilation and air conditioning.  

These types of solutions empower your organisation to carry on with your daily operations – lights on, buildings heated and machines running – just more efficiently. What’s more, you’ll have a continuous record of how this all takes to run to demonstrate the impacts of energy efficiency efforts to stakeholders. 

Let’s look at some of the solutions that you can use to drive deeper savings and improve return on investment (ROI). 

• Building controls: Building control solutions can underpin impactful energy management by optimising the performance of your building’s operating systems. Building Energy Management Systems (BEMS) and control automation are essential tools to keep site buildings running as efficiently as possible.   
• Internet of Things (IoT): IoT is reinforcing comprehensive energy management by using connected devices and sensors to collect consumption data in real time. 
• Sensor data platforms can provide you with valuable real-time insights at device and asset level. 
• Lighting and lighting controls: Although we are focusing on solutions beyond LEDs, the fact that you can minimise unnecessary consumption by installing lighting control systems is still worth highlighting. These systems can be integrated with a BEMS or as a standalone wireless system. Although controls are comparable with all lighting types, we would recommend LED upgrades as part of the roll-out for increased efficiency.