We live in a time where sustainability and cost savings are high on the agenda. Gas and energy prices continue to rise, and more than ever, people are becoming aware of their energy consumption. Submetering plays an important and actually indispensable role in this. It provides insight into your consumption down to the cm³, allowing you to take efficient and targeted measures. But who is submetering actually interesting for? And why should you use submetering? We explain it all!
Real insight into your consumption with a submeter
With submetering, you install extra meters, known as submeters, to measure the consumption of a specific part of a building or area. By placing more submeters, you gain much more accurate insight into the consumption of gas, water, heat, and electricity within that specific part. Via a handy dashboard, you continuously see the consumption at each location. This allows an energy manager to take much more targeted action to save costs. Who benefits from submetering?
Submetering is actually interesting for everyone, but especially for heavy users such as recreation parks, retail chains, schools, and factories. For instance, a supermarket chain can use submetering to make the energy consumption of stores with the same dimensions transparent. This reveals exactly what happens in which store. When one store consumes much more energy than other similar stores, you can quickly see the cause and take targeted measures. If you have only one main meter, it's like searching for the energy hog. Now you can quickly see that the cause lies with an outdated freezer. Recreation parks and property managers
Recreation parks and property managers also greatly benefit from installing submeters, as they need to divide the energy bill among owners and tenants. With submetering, you can make this distribution fair. Because people who are never home but do get a big bill obviously don't want to pay. It is much easier if you have insight into individual consumption. Submetering makes it possible to measure the energy per house, allowing you to divide the costs fairly. Park owners and property managers can also see when someone, for example, uses an extreme amount of energy. They can also take targeted measures to reduce costs. But be careful to use the right submeter. It turns out that 70% of the submeters in recreation parks are faulty. From reactive to proactive: data-driven decisions
Submetering makes it possible to make proactive and data-driven decisions. The detailed and continuous insight from submetering provides valuable data on the consumption of individual areas and devices. Companies as well as individuals can thus save efficiently. You're on time and know exactly when an old lamp, for example, needs to be replaced. You don't get this insight with just one main meter. Sustainability and cost savings
Submetering is therefore interesting for anyone who wants to save costs, take sustainable measures, and distribute energy costs fairly. Due to the many appliances we have in our homes today and the rising prices, people need smart asset management. Submetering is therefore the future and really provides detailed insight. You can hardly go further than this.
