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Can Mobile Technology help with your Sustainability Agenda?
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oday many organisations face challenges with both cost reduction and meeting new targets in relation to the green agenda and sustainability. Apart from better energy and resource management, mobile technology can play a key role in facilitating a sustainable green agenda. Two significant factors which can drive down facility and travel costs are the greater deployment of Video Conference & Telepresence (VCTP) technologies and greater use of mobile devices, such as tablet PCs, to provide staff with the ability to work literally from any ‘available space’.
NFS Leads the Way in Mobile Scheduling Technology For many years NFS has been providing scheduling solutions to commercial businesses and the public sector. In response to the continued efforts of public sector organisations to achieve their sustainability targets, we are now delivering scheduling technology that
integrates with the latest generation of mobile platforms.
What Makes Us Different Seamless integration with MS Outlook For staff who typically ‘live in Outlook’ our latest Rendezvous Workspace platform offers complete scheduling functionality as part of the Outlook experience, so staff can easily manage appointments, meeting rooms and resources in a familiar environment.
Mobile technology Recognising the trend in mobile
computing, NFS have released functionality for scheduling on industry- standard platforms like the iPad, as opposed to high-cost proprietary solutions.
Affordable but effective
Organisations can benefit from reduced costs without seeing functionality compromised.
Dundee City Council discovers sustainable heating solution
achs mini-CHP from Baxi-SenerTec UK, part of Baxi Commercial Division, has been identified by Dundee City Council as a consistently cost-effective element of its drive to achieve energy efficiency. Dundee, recognised throughout history as a leader in many areas and not least as the City of Discovery, is playing an influential role in the nationwide drive to create a sustainable energy infrastructure for the long-term. The City Council has trialled different renewable and low carbon alternative heating technologies and the Dachs mini-CHP combined heat and power solution is being variously deployed in the city, reducing carbon emissions and improving the energy efficiency of buildings of diverse use. The Dachs mini-CHP solution is designed to run continuously in buildings with a large heat load and almost continuous operation. For example, in Brington Place, a home for elderly residents where the heat load was being met by three condensing boilers, the operation of a Dachs mini-CHP greatly reduced the call on the boilers to supply the heat load, whilst generating electrical
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power to meet the power load. The CHP unit, running almost continuously, has delivered 66,000 kWh of electricity and 160,000 kWh of heating since being commissioned. Based on previous bills for electricity from the grid, the savings for the council run home amount to almost £2,500 per annum. These savings do not take into account the benefits that will be derived from the extended operating life of the boilers due to greatly reduced use, the consequential reduced maintenance costs and, not least, the reduced carbon emissions. The cost-effectiveness of CHP has been confirmed by its use in the plantroom serving the council run library, theatre and office areas in the Wellgate Shopping Centre in the heart of the city. Two Dachs mini-CHP units were deployed to support six boilers that were already in place to meet the heat load.
In an eleven month period following installation, the two units ran for more than 5,500 hours, generating almost 69,000 kWh of electricity and well over 100,000 kWh of heating. The dramatic reduction in boiler workload and the considerable lessening of the grid-
Multi-location scheduling
Our new platform offers a true, multi- location room and resource booking solution ideal for video conference scheduling. Integrations with leading brands of VCTP technology have also been developed to provide the user with a seamless experience.
Total Solution for the Sustainability Agenda
As a technology company we believe that we can make an important contribution to public sector organisations seeking better management of rooms and resources. We are achieving this today by delivering cost-effective and user-friendly solutions, incorporating greater mobility features and integrating with other systems that are part of a total solution for sustainability. To find out more about NFS scheduling solutions, please visit
www.nfs-hospitality.com or call 01992 514 555.
supplied power demand, together led to a saving of over £4,000 in running costs. In addition, the two units have jointly avoided nearly 24,000 kg of carbon emissions.
The versatility of CHP has been shown in Menzieshill High School following the installation of an indoor swimming pool. The heat demand of the school was already being met by three 745kW pressure jet boilers and in this instance a Dachs mini-CHP was selected to provide the extra heat demand of the new pool. In addition to meeting this demand, with unused output being used to supplement the school general heat requirement, the CHP generates electricity to reduce the school’s demand on power from the grid.
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