Improved efficiency, comfort and safety for retail facilities

ESI creates efficient, comfortable and secure environments for numerous retail businesses – whether a single site or thousands across the country. Our solutions cover HVAC control, lighting control and the monitoring of key performance measurements, such as energy and water usage, and refrigeration systems.

Our long history of providing solutions to retail customers has revealed two things that are critical for your success: consistency in implementation and support; and the ability to provide key operating information in meaningful ways at the local, regional and corporate level. Our solutions include integrated control and monitoring of a store’s various systems, a single platform for system monitoring and operation, and benchmarking and analysis tools to compare site performance against best-in-class site performance.

We also support your multi-site retail operation with solutions that include demand response programs and real-time pricing control strategies. And, we can assist in obtaining energy rebates and incentives across the country.

As the number of your store locations grows, so does the challenge of keeping tabs on the equipment and systems within them and making sure that all operate at peak efficiency. For example, our experience has shown that it’s not uncommon for economizers to fail frequently. When they do, the impact on energy consumption can be significant. For one large ESI retail customer, we documented that four out of 9 economizers had failed, resulting in excess energy consumption of $4,800 annually, per site. When dealing with hundreds, or thousands of sites, small numbers become large ones rapidly. This is where our retro-commissioning solutions play a significant role. By combining retro-commissioning with advanced fault detection, we not only establish conditions and performance baselines, but deliver continuous commissioning through fault detection applications.

For another ESI customer, this combination of retro-commissioning and fault detection generates $3.9 million dollars in annual savings. Just as importantly, ESI’s tools turn mountains of data into actionable information that this customer uses to ensure its stores remain at peak operating efficiency. The ability to quickly find issues - like failed sensors or economizers - allows them to take corrective action before energy is wasted.

Benchmarking performance against other sites, other periods of time and corporate standards allows you to achieve a more efficient operating cost structure that enhances your bottom line. Continuous commissioning helps you to get the most out of equipment life by catching deteriorating conditions that lead to premature equipment failure.

Operations play a key role in creating a comfortable and safe experience for your customers. ESI supports you through a range of services, including remote monitoring, help desk, service dispatch and system analysis. Support is offered as a compete turn-key 24/7/365 support solution; or we can augment your in-house facility staff for peak season tasks such as store scheduling and help desk functions.