April 11, 2012: Honeywell’s Attune Advisory Services to Help Cut Building Energy and Operating Costs
According to Honeywell, its Attune Advisory Services help building owners by providing technology and support to gain baseline awareness of building performance, make improvements to reduce energy and operations costs, and define an ongoing strategy to manage and optimize a facility.
“The performance of building systems and equipment can degrade by as much as 5 percent every year, which translates to energy and operating costs that continually escalate,” said Paul Orzeske, president of Honeywell Building Solutions. “Companies are starting to realize the significant impact this can have, as well as the opportunity it presents for bottom-line savings. With Attune, we’re providing the ease and convenience of cloud-based technology with expert advice and actionable guidance so companies can capture and maintain those savings.”
Honeywell said Attune Advisory Services turn building performance data into an action plan that pinpoints potential upgrades and their expected return on investment. The service suite enables facility managers to optimize their budgets, personnel, and systems by combining cloud-based tools and analytics with insight and advice from a global team of Honeywell consultants, and customized support provided by skilled onsite technicians.
Attune offers three levels of assistance — awareness, improvement, and optimization — with programs focusing on either energy or operational efficiency. The new energy-focused services include:
• Attune Energy Awareness: Enables facility managers to access and monitor electricity and natural gas consumption using a Web-based, software-as-a-service dashboard that collects information from utility meters to provide insight on building performance and create a baseline to help identify savings opportunities.
• Attune Energy Improvement: Turns building data into actionable recommendations with the advice of Honeywell’s analysts. Facility managers receive periodic reports that provide information on efficiency opportunities with related recommendations on upgrades and replacements. Building retrofits made as a result of these services can deliver energy savings of up to 10 percent, potentially paying for themselves within months.
• Attune Energy Optimization: Delivers a combination of improved building knowledge and actionable recommendations, backed by detailed monitoring, measurement, and verification to help ensure facilities operate at their peak. Optimization can deliver energy savings of 10 to 20 percent on average, with the potential for even greater savings in older facilities.
The goal of Attune Operations Services is more efficiently run buildings. Facility managers can select different combinations of 24/7 equipment monitoring, remote and onsite response to alarm conditions, and Honeywell consultation for uncovering other potential improvements and lowering equipment life-cycle costs. These services provide guided solutions aimed at saving money and reducing downtime, and the improved insight allows Honeywell to dispatch technicians only when needed.
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For more information, visit https://buildingsolutions.honeywell.com/HBSCDMS/Attune/.
Publication date: 04/09/2012
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