Frequently Asked Questions

Many Energy Managers or outsourced companies can be very successfully using monthly target reporting and league tables to drive change in their estates. The challenge, however, is how do you find the time to properly analyse this data and utilise the information to affect change, when you have so many other demands for the business.

EMMA AI is different because it communicates directly with your site managers, creating an army of energy saving professionals, using no more than a few minutes of their time each week.

EMMA AI leans about each individual site, using the historic data, so its advice is specifically tailored to each site/unit/shop in your estate, no setup needed.  And EMMA AI is constantly learning and adapting,  so it is always relevant,  freeing you from the admin of energy management,  giving you time to affect real change.

As a result, setup is quick and effortless,  and staff engagement is high, because the information EMMA AI provides is relevant them. You deliver lots to quick wins with relatively low effort.

EMMA AI will identify consumption waste, across all utilities, and provide recommended actions to prevent or reduce it, often at no capital cost.  As a result, you will have a lower utility bill, and save money.

EMMA AI will identify waste in Gas and electricity, providing recommended actions to prevent or reduce it, often at no capital cost.  By optimising your consumption, you reduce your carbon footprint.

Additionally, EMMA AI will help you understand your utility needs better, ensuring the technology choices you make to decarbonise are sustainable and cost efficient.

EMMA AI is constantly analysing your utility consumption for anomalous consumption patterns and learns what these patterns mean to you and what equipment is driving them. Anomalies are classified as consumption which breaks the trend when viewed in relation to external factors such as time, working patterns, environmental conditions, and activity levels.

Using the characteristics of identified anomalies EMMA AI can determine the probable cause, as well as the best course of action to resolve the issue.

Further EMMA AI learns from your feedback, learning new causes and resolutions specific to your operation.

Setting up EMMA AI is very simple. All EMMA AI needs is the Half-Hour data from your smart meter, and the location of your building. That is, it.

Yes, we offer a risk-free trial system for £5,000, for up to 10 buildings for 3 months.

£5,000! Yes, but if EMMA AI does not find at least £5,000 p/a of savings we will give you a full refund.

EMMA AI typically costs less than 2% of your utility spend.

No, EMMA AI needs no capital expenditure on equipment. Providing you have a smart meter EMMA AI can get all the data it needs to work from your utility provider.

EMMA AI is designed to operate on a building-by-building bases. If you have metering at the building level EMMA AI will work very well.

If you do not have extensive building level metering, EMMA AI will still be able to identify and quantify anomalies. If you find and fix them great, but if you cannot, you will be able to use EMMA AI’s findings to justify the spend on more metering to help you pinpoint the anomalies found.

EMMA AI uses ‘driving factor’ data to understand your consumption. Driving Factor data is the measure which influences utility consumption. In your case this will be customers. EMMA AI can import your customer data (footfall, covers, sales), to influence its decisions, and to provide measures of consumption by customer.

Providing you have AMR (automatic meter read) meters covering these areas EMMA AI will have no problem analysing this consumption and providing you will valuable advice.

Often Sub-Meters are installed for the common areas and connected back to the building management system (BMS). If this is the case it should be possible to have the BMS send EMMA AI the data it needs. Otherwise, it may be possible to add AMR to you existing meters at relatively low cost (£100s).

EMMA AI is designed to view every building as unique, applying Energy Management and AI backed analysis using the specific characteristics of your buildings. EMMA AI knows that even similar buildings performing the same function are not the same.

Using the characteristics of identified anomalies EMMA AI can determine the probable cause, as well as the best course of action to resolve the issue. Further EMMA AI learns from your feedback, learning new causes and resolutions specific to your operation.

EMMA AI is designed to assist you in the mondain aspects of your job. Collecting and analysing utility data for you, so you can focus on resolving the big value items, getting kudos for the saving you make.

Further EMMA AI will give you access to analysis you can use to build a case for capital expenditure where EMMA AI finds significant individual or reoccurring anomalies. EMMA AI not only provides evidence, but also the cost of these, for easy inclusion in your case.

Yes: Because EMMA AI is reviewing and analysing your consumption 24/7 365 days a year, it will identify issues quickly and efficiently, even where it is not cost effective for a person to do it.

Using EMMA AI means an end to nasty surprises in your utility bills because the heating was accidentally set to manual, or the warehouse lights were left on at night, or one of the toilets has been continuously flushing all weekend.

It will also ensure that your Net Zero Carbon strategy is based on facts not assumptions. It will help you build the most effective strategy and ensure that where unit costs inevitably increase by going green, you are only using what you need too to operate comfortably and efficiently.

No,  EMMA AI makes it simple,  providing simple instructions directly to those who can action them.   As a result, you create a army of energy managers out of your existing staff, all be it just for a few minutes per week.   Everyone is part of the solution with EMMA AI.