Features of the Optimal System

User and machine interfaces provide a comprehensive single solution for a wide variety of users from single systems.

Monitoring

• Low installation costs Optimal is wireless, using advanced radio technology
• No software requirements, or changes to back office systems
• No user licence requirements
• Electricity, gas and oil consumption, with the data being shown in units of energy, true costs or CO2 emissions format
• Water consumption, with the data displayed being shown in units of weight or true costs format
• To identify water leaks
• To meet statutory requirements for the collection and reporting of data, such as the monitoring of water quality for Legionella Disease
• Chemicals levels in swimming pools
• Refrigeration temperatures to comply with food hygiene regulations
• Boiler flow and return temperatures
• Current and voltage (3-phase supply balancing)
• Internal and external air temperatures
• Steam pressure monitoring
• Noise levels
• Access controls
• Total power failure

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Profiling

• Existing high and low consumption levels and target levels
• Flexible high and low settings for different usage (peak/off-peak hours, day/night, weekday/weekend, summer/winter, individual buildings or sections of buildings)
• Evidence for optimising the energy classification mark on buildings

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On-Screen Display and Reporting

• Live data(Web based and wall displays)
• Meter reading every half hour, with data shown in graph, bar chart or text format
• Choice of display options – individual meters, all meters for a particular energy type shown together, data shown grouped by different energy categories, comparisons with another date, data shown by unit, cost or emissions, cumulative data, data for a given time period (day, week, month, year)
• Standard reports presented to you in various formats
• Automated report generation
• Automated Electronic data export
• Customised reports easily
• Self-declaration of meter readings, accepting by most utility companies for billing purposes, with readings able to be sent directly to your supplier
• Budgetary control – check your consumption and costs between bills, to see you are on target with your utility spend
• Emissions reports – check you are within carbon allocations levels and whether you can be a buyer or seller of carbon allocations

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Warning

• If consumption is above or below your preset levels
• Monitored equipment (e.g. boiler, refrigeration plant) failure
• Total power failure
• Critical internal or external air temperature changes