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YOU CAN ALSO
CONNECT TO
OTHER BUILDINGS
AS WELL TO
SEE HOW THE
CONSUMPTION IS.
help you take some decisions either about
faulty maintenance, for the operation or
for efficiency.
From the technology point of view this
is a platform but at the same time the
experience is very important because at
the end you have to embed inside this
technology the experiences that you have
accumulated all over the years.
We at Schneider started with this
EcoStruxure and the advent of the Internet
in ‘97 so it is 20 years old. Then the platform
is also a community because this platform
is an open one that is open to everybody.
We know that in a building you will not find
only Schneider Electric which means that
you should be able to integrate a third-party
product and at the same time have the third-
party product connect to your installation.
And this helps you build a community in the
ecosystem to be enabled in the project to
develop and to build from the greenfield to
the operation after fundamentals.
And this brings us to the lifecycle tools
because with lifecycle tools today it is
very important when a new building or
installation is finished you have to bring it
to the operations.
And we see that today, for example, in
the OPEX almost 30% of the cost of the
OPEX is reworking because at the CapEx
level things were not done properly either
because things were not integrated into the
design at the beginning in a proper way, or
some documentations were missing, and
at the end when the operators start we see
that a lot of things need to be reworked.
And at the same time with all the data
that we aggregate we are able to do the
maintenance in a proper way and to do
preventative maintenance when it is critical.
So all those four pillars are part of what we
can call the ecosystem.
If I was in charge of your hotel chain
and I implemented your system what
could I gain from the analytics?
First of all there is the guest experience
which is very important and at the same
time you can work on a benchmark. When
you’re a big chain you have different hotels
and you can connect all the data between
them so you will have the control at that
level of analytics of your buildings.
But you can also connect to other buildings
as well to see how the consumption is and
similarly why the other building is not doing
the same. So this analysis can help you
take the right decision to understand better
where the problem is coming from without
putting at risk your guests’ experience. We
know that from the company’s point of
view if the guest is not happy he will not
come back.
So this is very important and, of course, from
the maintenance point of view. this can help
you organise the maintenance of your assets
without disturbing your guests.
What can you tell us about the
energy saving aspects of this system?
It’s an important point because energy is
the main expense of the hotel and here you
have a kind of product that will help you
understand at what time you should start
the energy in the room.
You are able to accumulate the profile
of your guests about what time they
would like to put the lights on and at what
time you should start the energy in the
room. You can keep it in-memory and next
time automatically bring it to the guest
when he enters the next time. You will be
able to manage the non – occupancy in an
efficient way.
In terms of benchmarking, we have a lot
of tools for energy efficiency that can help
you use your consumption efficiently and
compare one building to another. This is a
benchmark that would help you because
the data can be present on the cloud
and we can have an expert team sitting
in different places in the world – getting
access to that and giving you advice on
what you need to do from the energy
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