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1. A BIG DATA APPROACH TO
ENERGY MANAGEMENT IN RETAIL
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ANALYZE. ACHIEVE. ACCELERATE
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Table of Content
03 .................................................................................... Abstract
04 .................................................................................... Architecting Success with ‘Better Buildings Challenge’
04 .................................................................................... Going the Big Data Way
05 .................................................................................... Navigating the Terrain
06 .................................................................................... Beyond Energy
07 .................................................................................... About the Author
3. In this era of rapid transformations, Energy
Management is more of a necessity than a choice.
Retail businesses spend billions of dollars each year
on energy.The industry faces the dual challenge of
not only reducing carbon footprint, but also imbibing
sustainable strategies that balance business
objectives with environmental responsibilities.
Popular energy-saving initiatives entail retrofitting lighting, and
heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) assets.
Though these measures ensure savings, they bear the burden
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of being capital intensive projects. Savings through operations
in large multi-site scenarios lead to results, though limited by
the extent of visibility.
This paper discusses how the effective usage of Big Data Analytics can
revolutionize energy sustainability initiatives for retailers, driving
consumption pattern analysis, establishing efficiency blueprints and
supporting maintenance efforts. Indeed, Big Data is the harbinger of an
efficient tomorrow, bolstering the retailer’s fiscal as well as
competitive repute in the market, combined with the augmentation of
savings potential.
4. 4
As part of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan, the US
Department of Energy (DOE) is promoting ‘Better Buildings
Challenge’, wherein partners target to reduce their energy
consumption by about a fifth by year 2020. This includes retailers in
many segments such as home improvement, apparel stores, the
electronics, pharmacy and grocery segments who have been
leveraging on Big Data to analyze energy usage.
Recently, a US-based leading consumer electronics enterprise
achieved greenhouse gas reductions of 8% per square foot, with a
cumulative progress rating of 24% towards realizing its energy
efficiency goals. Two other large scale retail outlets with a
nation-wide presence also demonstrated significant energy savings
across their portfolios.
These achievements were the result of a strong synergy between
energy management endeavors and leveraging Big Data.
Architecting Success with
‘Better Buildings Challenge’
The concept here is to collect large volume of data (terabytes of
information) pertaining to energy consumption, costs, asset
operations and business policies, and sift through that to determine
operational savings. Some of the examples include standardizing the
temperature policies across the portfolio, ensuring that unnecessary
lights and air conditioning do not operate when not required and the
efficient working of assets. This data when analyzed over a long term,
allowed retailers to figure out not-so-obvious energy leakages like
chronic equipment efficiency issues, insulation problems with the
building envelope and heat gain through the skylights.
The savings are largely achieved by correcting the operational
deviations and fine-tuning the asset operations through controls in
this kind of program. There are hundreds of ways in which performance
Going the Big Data Way
Just collecting data or having software to analyze does not mean that
one would be able to figure out the savings. Analytics capability
requires collaboration between data analysts and domain experts.
Also, given that data is voluminous, structured methods and toolset is
a must for complete analysis across all sites.
Volume and method depends on the present state of technology
deployed, and how granular you would like the data to be, to
determine deviations. For example, one can determine the store
energy performance through historic monthly invoice data, which
means one sample per month. Better visibility into energy deviations in
near real -time is obtained from half-hourly interval data, that is, 48
samples a day. One gets best actionable insights when asset data is
collected. Let’s say 15 parameters for 10 roof-top units every 30
minutes. That will be 15 x 10 x 48 = 7200 records just for a single store
in a day.
Such data is typically collected via Building Automation Systems,
directly through controllers or through their management application.
Many legacy and proprietary systems do not allow any access to data,
in which case metering and sub-metering analysis have to be used.
Carry out pilot study and determine saving strategies that can be
actioned with data. Savings can range from 4% to over 20% across
sites and could be feasible to implement based on size of spend.
can deviate or can be improved across lighting, electrical, cooking, air
conditioning and refrigeration systems. Hence, one needs access to
data across all sites.
For retailers, making Big Data work for energy efficiency programs
entails the following:
Set-up Data Collection Mechanism
Analysis Capabilities
Establish Savings Potential
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Navigating the Terrain
A major challenge to Big Data adoption has been the lack of belief in
such programs. The dearth of skilled users to work with data, IT
support as well as security issues are other major concerns in
embracing Big Data.
However, this is changing fast with more retailers increasingly
adopting it. Many retailers who made progress under the ‘Better
Buildings Challenge’ indicated that Big Data Analytics helped them
reap rich gains.
The program has to be strategically positioned for
multiple stakeholders:
Savings result from action and not just insights. In a 500 site portfolio,
if one is able to cover just 20% stores every month, carry out detailed
analysis of 20 and action upon 10 stores, obviously program will not
produce meaningful savings. A retailer needs to touch almost all the
sites for deviations and resolve the high-gain findings every week
across relevant sites. Effort has to be factored in for the activity.
This also involves proactive measures like checking the set points to
take advantage of favorable weather conditions when you are entering
the shoulder months. A simple measure like correcting schedules for a
one-day holiday helped us save $170,000 in just a day for a retailer.
Data analytics-based savings programs don’t just save energy but also
protect the customer experience. The rich data makes stores
completely visible in near real-time. The saving strategies like
correcting thermal profiles across the stores involve standardizing the
temperature policies and schedules across the stores.
Action
Business Operations
Analytics and granular data allows one to enable multiple other
levers for savings like strategic energy procurement, managing the
demand charges and benefiting from demand response programs.
Utilities
Performance data of assets coupled with maintenance history is
essential for achieving energy efficiencies. The same data that is
collected for energy efficiency is also used for improvement of
maintenance activities.
Maintenance
Sustainability reporting requires accurate data pertaining to
consumption. Any errors related to metering can be quickly
identified through analysis and patched. Also, reporting available at
strategic and tactical level helps one reduce the risk of exceeding
energy budgets.
Reporting
Data plays a very important role in planning and prioritizing the
retrofits. One gets exact run-hours when calculating the lighting
replacements. Also, when you deploy operational savings, many
retrofits will have slower payback. As the program minimizes wastage
by reducing unnecessary running of lights, LED replacement will have
slightly longer payback. This brings in prudence in retrofit decisions.
Retrofit savings can be tracked through the years by data. Similarly,
when remodeling stores, retailers can determine which assets are
inefficient and need replacements.
Projects Organization
6. 6
Beyond Energy
Big Data is also being used by retailers to collect and analyze humongous volumes of information to attract more footfalls. Data collected via web
channels when coupled with device and sensor data at store level can potentially be used to ensure much better customer experience.
Analytics is already getting leveraged for improving asset maintenance that help bring down maintenance costs and improve asset life.
The data from in-store devices, video and wearable technology has the potential to improve sales effectiveness and improve workforce productivity.
This will use same foundation as laid for Big Data Energy Management program.
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Ravi Meghani heads the Energy Management Solutions for retail clients at Wipro EcoEnergy. He has been leading
propositions for Energy Efficiency and innovations in managing non-IT devices for Wipro for over 5 years. He has
an extensive experience in M2M, Managed Services, IT Infrastructure and Voice and Data networks with skills in
solution architecting, delivery and product development. With over 18 years of experience, Ravi’s expertise is in
areas of consulting, infrastructure, retail, financial institutions and telecom. He holds a bachelor’s degree in
Electronics Engineering.
About the Author