IkanosTM is a Wireless Site Network of open architecture hardware and software components designed and patented by Excel Energy Technologies to suit the specific demands of restaurant and retail chains.
The site network employs Zigbee radio-frequency transceivers and sensor devices which enable remote corporate-to-site asset control. In turn, the outbound site-to-corporate link communicates asset performance measurements in real-time for the purposes of performance monitoring and analysis through EET's ecoMetricsTM portal.
Unique Operational & Financial Advantages
- Asset Automation: Program controllable load assets to run only when needed to accommodate service demand & environmental conditions. Drive down energy costs!
- Performance Monitoring: Monitor real-time performance of mission-critical assets to prevent service interruption & lost revenue. Optimize asset productivity & uptime!
- Alert & Resolution: Receive operating alerts – via phone, PDA & ecoPlex command center – in cases of impending asset failure or violation of regulatory compliance. Eliminate the need for hourly checkpoints & recorded measurements!
- 24/7 Service Center: Authorize Excel Energy to work directly with Facilities & contractors to resolve asset malfunctions. Upon resolution, we'll confirm effective repair. Devote less time to systems & more time to your customers!
- Your Corporate Intelligence: Evaluate operating costs & performance efficiency per site, region, brand or period to identify opportunity for savings & improvements. Integrate cost & quality standards at all your sites!
Plug 'N Play Implementation
Our solution is strategically comprised of just 3 multi-functional wireless components to maintain uniformity and permit fast, easy setup in any facility regardless of building design, floor plan or asset configuration.
Controller: Asset automation is managed by an autonomous control device, which is internally switched based on the asset it's controlling.
- Stores & controls temperature set points & operating schedules
- Operates independently when power or communications are lost
- Enables 6 relay connections to automate circuit panels
Multi-Sensor: Monitors & reports on up to 6 environmental conditions from a single wireless device
- Monitors temperature, humidity, pressure & carbon dioxide.
- Multi sensors run on batteries (not more electricity) lasting up to 5 years
ecoPlex Command Center: Give your managers comprehensive status & control over the entire site at their fingertips.
- Centralizes site management on the 15" touch screen display
- Polls site-level devices & transmits a secure packet to the EET data center every 15 minutes
- Displays current operating condition of each managed asset
- Red Button Alert warns of performance outside target specifications, thus an asset requiring attention
- Managers can issue overrides, follow troubleshooting procedures or escalate issues for emergency attention
- Each command executed through ecoPlex is logged for review, and analysis of site-level activity
For more on the benefits of chain-wide best practices, visit IkanoSphere
IkanosTM (ē'kŏn'ōs) – from the Greek ικανος. adjective.
- being effective without wasting time or effort or expense,
- able to accomplish a purpose; functioning effectively.
Case Examples
- Automating control & performance monitoring reduces annual HVAC operating costs by 40% when comparing 2 identical restaurants. See Chart
- IkanosTM detects a restaurant's cooler temperature has risen above compliance and issues a manager alert. Procedure authorizes Excel Energy's Service Center to dispatch a technician. Repair is completed prior to opening & avoids service interruption & lost revenue. See Chart
- A retail drug store relies on ecoMetricsTM, EET's secure Web-based portal, to cultivate best practices in performance-directed maintenance & sales-based operating standards. See Chart
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