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HVAC On-demand
Why most offices are overcooled (and how landlords can fix it!)
Central air conditioning systems in commercial office buildings are engineering marvels, but they aren’t perfect. Multi-tenant offices are complex environments and thus it’s difficult to get the temperature “just right” for everyone.
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Real-time Energy Management
What Is Energy Management & How Can You Use It?
This article explains what energy management is, why it is important today, and how you can use energy management to better understand your organization.
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Real-time Energy Management
The Top 5 Energy Challenges for Facility Managers
Facility management is a challenging role in any organization.
Rising energy prices and sustainability requirements are pushing facility managers to improve their organization’s energy efficiency.
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Real-time Energy Management
4 Hidden Benefits of Real-Time Energy Data
Companies are beginning to understand that real-time energy data can deliver energy savings. Data can point out when equipment and/or staff behaviour are wasting energy. It can show where and when there is operational inefficiency.
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Real-time Energy Management
4 Ways to Save Money with Real-Time Energy Data
“You can’t manage what you don’t measure.” This is a commonly used quote in the energy management industry, but it’s not as simple as it seems. Hundreds of companies collect operational data that ends up sitting on a server somewhere without being put to good use.
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Real-time Energy Management
8 Things You Need to Know About Energy Management Software
The right Energy Management System can help you gain visibility into your energy performance. With this insight, you can uncover many hidden savings opportunities.
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Real-time Energy Management
Energy & Big Data: What You Need to Know
The creation, analysis, and application of data in the business world has grown at an astonishing rate. Forbes rated big data as one of its Top 10 Trends for Digital Transformation.
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Real-time Energy Management
The 6 Most Important Energy KPI Issues for your Company
Modern management practices depend on key performance indicators (KPIs). But it’s not enough to just have them – you need the RIGHT ones. And that can be harder than you might imagine.
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Real-time Energy Management
The 4 Best Practices to Conserve Energy in Schools
While the electricity bill is often treated as an unchangeable portion of school expenses, the fact is that most schools have considerable room for improvement and savings.
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Real-time Energy Management
School Energy Management: Christine Loh Visits
On May 16th, Dr. Christine Loh Kung-wai, OBE, JP, Under Secretary for the Environment, HKSAR, visited Pui Shing Catholic Secondary School together with the En-trak team.
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Real-time Energy Management
School Feature: Show Live Energy Data Directly on Your Website
En-trak has launched a widget to display your school’s live energy usage directly on your website.
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Real-time Energy Management
4 Benefits from Teaching with Real-Time Data
Sometimes it feels like the world of K-12 education is drowning in trends and buzzwords.
Personalized learning, formative assessments, whole person education – it can make you dizzy! Some trends come and go, but some stay with us.
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Real-time Energy Management
School Energy Management: The 4 Key Roles
The vast majority of occupants in a school building are students.
So, it’s not surprising that they play a key role in any effort to make the school more energy efficient. They have the most fingers that can turn off and on the lights.
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Smart Connected Office
Wireless Lighting Control
4 Questions Everyone Should Ask About Office Lighting Control Systems
Smart Lighting control has become a standard for offices in recent years. The market offers a wide range of control systems with different benefits, drawbacks and costs. It can be difficult to decide which approach, or which system, will be most effective in your office.
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Wireless Lighting Control
En-trak Smart Lighting System: The New Features
One of the values we live by at En-trak is making sure we provide the best service to our users. It means we don’t just develop new features out of the blue. We constantly collect feedback so we can iterate and improve our products with your valuable input.
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Wireless Lighting Control
The 4 Downsides to Sensor-Based Lighting Control
Most of us first experienced lighting controlled by motion sensors in the same place – the toilet.
But since those early days, the use of sensors of all types in lighting control has spread to a wide range of areas and applications.
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Wireless Lighting Control
Why Conventional Zonal Lighting Controls Don’t Save Energy
Many offices are turning to lighting control systems to reduce their energy costs and carbon footprint. Unfortunately, many of them opt for outdated zonal control timers. Conventional zonal lighting control has many limitations, but the most important concern is the inability to actually reduce lighting energy use.
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