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Implementing power and environmental monitoring can feel overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be. It should be a simple and low risk initiative that quickly provides tangible benefits through the data it delivers.
Here are eight simple guidelines to getting started.
- Choose a solution that scales with your needs. Make sure you can add monitoring in steps and change your plans based on what you’ve learned. Avoid having to commit to an all-or nothing proposition.
- 80% of the value will come from paying attention to 20% of your systems. Focus on the biggest areas of need first to get the most value.
- Most things can be improved by 10% just by paying attention. Make sure the information you gather is easy to pay attention to.
- Avoid analysis paralysis. If you knew everything you needed to monitor, you probably wouldn’t need monitoring at all. Just do it. Deploying monitoring and adapting based on what you learn generally costs less than the RFP in search of the “ultimate” solution.
- Monitor what matters when it matters. Things change. Make sure your solution lets you easily focus on what you need to know, when you need to know.
- Gadgets do not save money, information does. A monitoring system is not about hardware or software. It is there to give you valuable information. Everything else is just a distraction and you should avoid it. Your system should make it easy to get the relevant information quickly and to share it.
- A monitoring system needs to show you the “so what”—where the savings are.
- Keep it simple. Adding real-time monitoring does not require replacing your unmetered equipment with new, but expensive equipment that has built-in metering. You can make any device a smart device with the right monitor.
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