Your facility’s Carbon Footprint has an impact on your daily operations and your site’s long term financial valuation. Sustainability affects your site’s competitiveness, and certain measures once seen as progressive are already taken as the status quo. You don’t want to just be the status quo. Through utilising off-site monitoring and managed services, you can leverage your sustainability requirements and increase your site’s overall efficiency.
Reduced On-site Requirements:
For many small-medium facilities, the energy and investment costs associated with establishing the on-site servers and technology needed to adequately monitor all the security and Prop-tech infrastructure on-site, is simply too great. Larger sites that have established green energy production capabilities, also have greater needs due to their size. There are so many additional effects on your carbon footprint related to self-monitoring on-site, such as the on-site manpower needed to maintain in-house.
Off-site monitoring can:
Minimize the need for physical patrols, in-house manpower requirements, on-site servers and BMS systems, reducing fuel consumption, ultimately reducing your site’s human footprint.
Mitigate the need for constant streaming through black-screen monitoring.
Reduce your site’s bandwidth, network usage, and power consumption related to on-site security.
Paperless Parking solutions:
Through concierge systems, managed and monitored off-site, such as paperless parking solutions, you can effectively eliminate a huge amount of “single use” paper while streamlining the time taken by people entering and exiting your site. Efficiencies like this additionally set your site apart from your competition in the minds of the consumers.
Energy-Efficient Surveillance Systems:
Modern CCTV security cameras and sensors are designed to be energy-efficient. However, upgrading to these energy-efficient devices is not necessarily the most direct way for facilities to significantly reduce their electricity consumption. It is often unnecessary to replace perfectly functional devices if A.I systems can reduce the reliance in the capacities of individual CCTV cameras.
Essentially, there are front-end and back-end energy consumption considerations. The amount of energy needed to host servers and run security software on-site often dwarfs the energy consumption of front-end “green” devices. Our approach is to first upgrade the most necessary devices, while reducing over-activity, utilising off-site A.I services to reduce your site’s on-site carbon footprint, and finally upgrading to “green” front-end devices as required.
Smart Building Automation:
Operationalising your facility’s Prop-Tech remotely is an excellent way to enhance the existing resources you have on-site. One of the best ways to reduce your site’s carbon footprint is to make use of the resources you already have, while mitigating the need to take on new resources. The first step to reducing your footprint is preventing your footprint from growing!
By integrating smart building technologies such as automated lighting and energy management solutions, and HVAC systems, you can optimize the energy used based on occupancy and time of day. Our off-site monitoring and managed services seamlessly integrates with these technologies.
Predictive Maintenance and IoT Sensors:
On that note, prompt and informed maintenance of your systems is one of the best ways to reliably curb your emissions. If your HVAC system is running continuously while your automatic doors are stuck open, that’s a problem. Additionally, without information on exactly which piece of technology is under-performing, over-utilised, or on the verge of breakdown, the knock-on effects means your system as a whole is compromised.
If you rely on your solar infrastructure to power your facility, but the IoT systems integrated with your solar infrastructure are not maintained and the information gathered about the system’s status is not taken seriously/escalated accordingly, you may end up paying for the replacement of major components when a simple maintenance check could have mitigated the need.
Predictive maintenance, managed remotely, helps your site minimize waste, and reduces the energy and materials required for repairs, leading to sustainably lowered carbon emissions.
Solar infrastructure at our Command Centres:
Off-site monitoring doesn’t simply offset the carbon burden to an outside source. We utilise the same carbon footprint reduction methods we recommend to our clients, in-house. Artificial Intelligence systems are known to use a staggering amount of energy, so we have initiated Solar Capture as a way to reduce the energy burden required to operate and maintain our databases and servers.
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