Organisations are using machine learning-enabled sockets to cut their emissions and energy bills by at least 20%.
Most commercial and office buildings have devices left on standby or fully on whilst not in use, especially overnight. Included are things like monitors, printers, task lighting, chilled or hot water taps, heaters, laptops etc, which create ‘small power waste.’
Small power today often exceeds 40% of total electricity usage in the built environment. And up to half of that is waste which incurs unnecessary expense and associated greenhouse gas emissions.
Surprisingly, no building management system, to date, has been able to monitor or control small power in any useful way.
Small power wastage – the unseen enemy
The solution proposed by measurable.energy seeks to automatically identify, measure and eliminate the waste provided by appliances.
The combination of unique smart sockets with machine learning and software allows the user to automatically identify devices plugged into the sockets, monitor their energy use, report granular real-time data and automatically turn devices on/off to avoid wasted energy.
In addition, the sockets use light to indicate the live carbon intensity of the National Grid. This drives impactful behavioural change as occupants opt to wait for a ‘greener’ energy supply before charging their phones or laptops again.
Underway in the UK
After numerous successful pilots and customer installs, measurable.energy is launching into the commercial market. This means that the first big batch of sockets has been released with installations underway all across the UK.
“measurable.energy has reached the very important milestone of installing large numbers of sockets for organisations across the UK. Myself, the team and our customers could not be more excited.
“What a brilliant feeling to know measurable.energy is making a measurable, positive difference to emissions and energy bills, right now and it will only grow bigger,” Dan Williams, co-founder and CEO, measurable.energy
measurable.energy has released its first big batch of sockets that could help tackle small power waste, which accounts for 40% of total electricity usage.