Multi-site retail

ABB Cylon provides an advanced Energy Management System (EMS) designed to specifically meet the demands of today's multi-site retailers. The EMS consists of eSCi building controls, Envoy, and the powerful ABB Cylon® Active Energy management tool.

The EMS can reduce energy consumption by up to 30%, optimize store operations, and provide detailed reporting.

Active Energy enables central monitoring and management of multiple sites regardless of geographical location and delivers energy performance and analysis information via any internet-enabled device. The toolkit includes reporting tools such as charting, analysis, and alarming, via simple and user-friendly interfaces and alerts. These tools allow the users to monitor energy performance in real-time, to receive alarms during periods of energy consumption change, and most importantly, to take any required action.

EMS is an innovative, proven solution that’s easy to implement, use, and expand. That’s why many of the world’s top retailers already use ABB Cylon Retail Solutions to control energy costs significantly while ensuring customer comfort, and why energy and facilities managers rely on it every day in every store.

Solution overview

Solution features

Ease of Integration

Simplified integration with many third-party, non-HVAC systems, including lighting and energy management. ABB Cylon’s open platform solutions make integration with 3rd party systems and legacy systems easy, bringing all your building energy management systems together.
ABB Cylon BMS integrates seamlessly across IT networks, between buildings, and between remote sites, making it ideal for multi-site retail energy management.

Beyond basic EMS

By building a system based upon open standards (BACnet and others), ABB Cylon Retail Solutions allow retailers to integrate other building automation systems into their EMS to further enhance the power and capabilities of one, centralized system:

Bill pay audit services provider
Facilities management
Energy analysis
Utility provider
Data Center
Mechanical services provider
Store monitoring services provider

Scalable

Extensible with Upgrade paths The ABB Cylon solution provides ease of upgrades and the extension of BMS through the gradual replacement of older, outdated, and ineffective BMS systems delivering a more flexible, energy-efficient, and cost-effective solution.
Unique flexibility with Uniputs technology allows for a wide scope of application.
ABB Cylon BMS is flexible and scalable with forward and backward compatibility.
The scalable, future-proof architecture provides native open protocols and support for LON®, BACnet®, Modbus®, and Web Services for seamless integration with third-party systems, or other existing and emerging technologies.

License free hardware

ABB Cylon solutions provide a license-free BMS hardware installation protecting investment in BMS technology today.

Robust power & utility monitoring

ABB Cylon Retail Solutions power and utility monitoring keep you aware of any power fluctuation or outage. It helps you understand where and how energy is being consumed in your retail stores by monitoring electricity, gas, and water meters - providing new insights and identifying potential savings. Its intuitive dashboard flags areas of unusual energy use and other anomalies, enabling you to take fast action before the higher-than-usual bill arrives.

Meter monitoring in real-time

What if you could leverage real-time metering information to shed excess electricity use on-demand for the best utility rates possible? ABB Cylon Retail Solutions metering solutions allow you to:

Compare real-time store-to-store energy use
Automate load shedding via a web-based system
Conduct auto-verification of energy use and billing data
Optimize your buildings with engineering efficiencies and user-friendly functionality, like drag-and-drop trending, one-click reporting, interactive graphics, calendar-like scheduling, and easy-to-use alarms.

Solution benefits

The ABB Cylon Retail Solution ensures that stores operate eﬃciently, reduce maintenance costs, optimize staff and customer comfort, and enables centralized management by an Energy Management Team or third-party energy bureau.

Shopper comfort | HVAC

Lighting control

Centralized management

Optimize energy

Whether it is cold or hot outside customers are more likely to stay longer and buy more when shopping in a controlled air-conditioned environment.

29% of energy used in retail applications is on heating which provides opportunity for energy cost savings.

ABB Cylon Retail Solutions integrates with the world’s leading HVAC systems to gain new control over how stores are using energy. Advanced algorithms automatically turn key systems on and off for smart usage—and to ensure a comfortable ambient environment in every store, adjusting as conditions change. By integrating with our EMS, energy managers can participate in demand response and demand limiting programs to save even more.

Our optional integrated thermostat-HVAC controllers eliminate the need for controls mounted in rooftop units, lowering install costs, and reducing service costs. With our additional systems monitoring capabilities, store operations can monitor the performance of each unit to determine if they are operating at peak efficiency.

ABB Cylon Retail Solutions energy management solutions allow you to:

View live store information via the Web
Remotely diagnose and predict problems
Automate dispatching to repair
Optimize HVAC performance

Smart strategies can produce meaningful savings

Eliminate heating and cooling running simultaneously by setting a temperature dead band. By setting a dead band between heating and cooling by about 5 degrees Celsius can save up to 10% on heating costs.

Reducing heating temperatures by just 1 degree Celsius can cut fuel consumption by 8%.

It is often possible to shut down heating or air conditioning an hour before store closing without any noticeable diﬀerence to staﬀ or customers.
Taking control of over door heaters ensuring they are operational only during trading hours and at a set temperature point.
Developing heating and cooling strategies that reﬂect trading hours and trends in occupancy across the time of day and seasonal shopping patterns.

Control | Optimize and enhance lighting

ABB Cylon Retail Solutions EMS gives your team detailed visibility in lighting use across your stores. By using this aggregate data, you can build a consistent lighting strategy to extend the life of your investment while reducing reliance on store staff to manually adjust lighting as necessary?

By creating logical lighting zones that automatically change by pre-established time setpoints, store staff can focus on shopper comfort and store operations can rest easy knowing that the store is using only the energy it needs – when it needs it.

50% of energy consumed in non food retail and 25% in food retail, is on lighting

Simplified lighting schedules

Build a scheduled lighting system across your entire network of stores.
Energy Managers and Store Operators can use the simplified store scheduling interface to build, control, and customize systems at each location or in regions.
Set exceptions for special events and review reports measuring actual use versus the schedule.

Access alerts via smart devices

A fully functioning user interface operates on a standard web browser for access to information 24/7.
Robust mobile apps provide a portable user interface to view information and manage facilities on the go.

ABB Cylon Retail Solutions Energy Management System helps retailers reduces energy consumption by as much as 30% or more.
Lighting forms an important part of the visual display of merchandise and provides a safe environment for both customers and staﬀ.

There are areas where savings can be made by switching oﬀ all non-essential lighting out of business hours can save up to 10% on lighting costs. Creating alternative lighting schedules for trading hours versus sales ﬂoor stock replenishment, e.g. switching oﬀ illuminated signage. The additional use of sensors in stockrooms, staﬀ rooms, toilets, etc. can produce savings of up to 50% on lighting costs.

With centralized visibility, you can reduce emergency service calls and preserve your operating margin. What would it mean to your business if you could save countless hours every month spent reacting to unforeseen outages.

With the ABB Cylon Retail Solution, alarms are created and alerts sent to facility managers or a central Bureau when equipment faults are detected allowing for early and swift maintenance.

Active Energy alerts of drift in energy usage for plant and equipment can highlight a requirement for plant and equipment maintenance or replacement.

Early alerts enable services teams to be on site quicker with the correct tools and equipment to take appropriate action.

Faster reaction times and eﬃcient repairs considerably reduce maintenance costs over time and deliver more reliable and eﬃcient systems.

Active Energy is a powerful cloud-based energy analysis tool that simplifies energy management by centralizing energy use analytics and reporting into one easy to use platform, it transforming raw data into meaningful information that fosters informed decision making, visualizes and tracks energy use in real-time for multi-site customers.

A 20% cut in energy costs represents the same bottom line benefit as a 5% increase in sales

Limitless connections
There is no limit to the number of information points or geographical locations that can be connected to the system making it the ideal tool for central monitoring and management of energy consumption for multi-site retail organizations with a number of building locations.

Hardware agnostic
Active Energy Manager is hardware agnostic and can be connected to most building energy management systems (BEMS) either directly, via BACnet or via the SQL or MS Access database providing integration across a portfolio of buildings that have various BMS solutions installed.

Friendly User Interface
The Active Energy Manager interface is user friendly, reporting and charting are intuitive and easy to understand that it is not limited to use by expert energy managers.

The benefit of ongoing analysis

Over time the energy performance of a building can drift away from its original design intent, resulting in excessive energy consumption and rising energy bills. This typically occurs because:

Equipment and lighting have not been scheduled correctly
Setpoints have been incorrectly configured
Equipment is being overridden to deliver instant occupant comfort
Changes in building conditions, such as occupancy or schedules are not reflected in the control systems

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