“eSight was very easy to deploy onto our existing company Intranet and upgrades can simply be applied to one server.”
Jonathan Taylor
IT Manager, Welcome Break
Welcome Break
About The Welcome Break Group
Welcome Break is the second largest operator in the UK, with a portfolio of invested sites and associated lodges. They provide motorway service areas across all major motorway routes within the UK.
The Requirement
Welcome Break required a solution to assist in the reduction of energy costs across their sites throughout the UK. With rising energy procurement costs they needed to identify energy waste and ensure individual sites were at best practice. It was also important that site based Facilities Managers had access to their energy monitoring and targeting system. Thus, providing those with the most influence on energy consumption with the tools needed to drive down energy costs.
The first phase of the project was to make full use of half hourly energy data already available from their electricity supplier, together with manual meter readings and historical data. Once completed, the second phase would see the installation of secondary metering and logging.
The Solution
Phase one of the project saw eSight Energy’s eSight monitoring and targeting suite installed on a server within Welcome Break’s head office in Newport Pagnell. The database was deployed to an existing server running SQL Server and the eSight application to their Intranet server.
Welcome Break initially wanted to import half hourly electricity data from their supplier. An important facility provided by eSight is the ability to extract data from an email account. Half hourly data is sent from the supplier to an email address at Welcome Break, where eSight extracts the data and imports it into the eSight database.
The second phase of the project is now being rolled out, seeing installation of secondary metering and logging on individual sites. This includes both the service areas and the Welcome Break hotels.