APA Solution
Vision BMS allows to gather information from various places in the shopping center, systematize the knowledge you have, find gaps in the management system, fix mistakes, and make savings of PLN 280 thousand over three years.
Hundreds of shoppers every day, 130 tenants, dozens of corridors and rooms, huge energy consumption and 40,000 m² of lighting space. Toruń Plaza is one of the biggest shopping centres in Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodeship; every day hundreds of customers do their shopping and spend their free time here.
Gigantic energy consumption, the need to light up huge spaces and watch over the safety of tenants and buyers forced the owner of the building to look for solutions that could reduce costs, save time and facilitate settlements with various entities. Such a solution turned out to be the Vision BMS system, which integrated two factors crucial for the investor: energy consumption monitoring and lighting control in the entire complex. The upside of introducing the system? Instead of listing them, let's use numbers. In 2011, when Toruń Plaza shopping center opened, the complex consumed about 125,000 kWh. When the system was introduced, energy consumption dropped to 110,000 kWh to remain at about 90,000 kWh in 2013 and 2014. With a 15% increase in electricity prices over the years, this resulted in savings of PLN 280,000! The introduction of the system has also dramatically reduced the time needed to measure energy consumption and manage lighting. Reading the meters (with 130 tenants in the complex) used to take a technician about 16 hours, but when all the meters were connected to the central system, the time required was reduced to... 1 minute! In addition, the developer gained insight into energy consumption by day and by hour, allowing him to monitor wasteful behaviour and compare energy consumption from month to month. Information available practically within a minute allowed us to streamline communication with tenants and provide them with reports in the form of emails, immediately after the statements were generated by the system. The way lighting is managed has also completely changed. The previously uneconomical and time-consuming system has been replaced by intuitive and simple solutions that allow the lighting to be controlled and monitored from a single location in each section of the complex, and toggled without the need to send technicians to the site. This has particularly improved the renovation and cleaning work which, due to the long opening hours of the centre, usually takes place at night generating considerable energy consumption. User safety has also increased, and the factor of human error - leaving lights on in a section - has been virtually eliminated. Implementation of the Vision system not only facilitates the work of maintenance staff (time of energy consumption measurements decreased from 16 hours to 1 minute), but also allows for savings of several hundred thousand over 3 years! Generating comprehensive energy reports no longer took the management 12 hours, but two. Lighting management for technician work reduced from 3 hours to 20 minutes. The time that had to be spent on tedious and comprenesive data collection was therefore reduced to a minimum.
Technologies used
- Monitoring of energy consumption,
- Lighting control throughout the complex.
