Astral Web Ltd

Unit C Hills Barn,
Apuldram Lane South,
Chichester,
West Sussex,
PO20 7EG

Telephone: 01243 539193
Mobile: 07973 449207
Fax: 07970 632239

Jeremy Thomas

Managing Director,

Product Specialist

Joe Sutherland

Technical Consultant

James Guymer

Technical Consultant

Emma Thomas

Business Development

Emma Cresswell

Administrator

Matthew Yates

Lead designer

Java / .Net / MySQL / SQL Server / PHP / ASP

With severe economic challenges ahead of us it pays to be smart.

Now is a time when businesses are taking a greater interest in saving money, and energy efficiency is now the number one cost-cutting priority for UK businesses looking to combat economic climes. As a cost-saver, it supersedes traditional cut-backs like redundancies and reduction in hours, travel expenses, salaries or new recruitment.

When you consider, it’s estimated a fifth of the energy used in European buildings is wasted, simple logic tells us there are massive potential savings that can be made by reducing energy bills, if we can measure where the wastage is. That’s where being smart comes in – or smart metering more to the point.

According to research by the Institute of Directors – businesses addressing energy efficiency had reduced their bills by 6-10 % with some saving up to 20%. A proportion of this money can be saved by making quick and easy behavioral changes like turning off unused equipment, maintaining equipment properly, turning down the air conditioning and heating, turning off lights. But a larger proportion can be saved by implementing smart metering. “If you can save this kind of money on energy and increase profits it can make you more productive than your competitors. It could make the essential difference on your bottom line.” says Jeremy Thomas, Managing Director of Astralweb a market leader in energy management solutions.

Smart meters can play a key role in helping businesses see where energy is being wasted. In real-time they keep track of energy usage, identify irregularities, deliver accurate information and mean an end to estimated bills from suppliers.

Some utility companies provide their own smart meters, but at the end of the day surely it’s counter-productive for utility companies to provide customers with a tool that actively encourages their clients to reduce their energy usage unless there is some kind of incentive for the energy suppliers to do so! That’s where companies like Astralweb come in – offering smart metering for all utilities with data and analysis available through one easy to use web portal.

Jeremy goes on to say, “In association with partners, we currently report on 19,000 meter points and provide a full service from smart meter and logger hardware supply, installation, communications, data services and analytical software.”

If you’re thinking your business has potential energy savings you are not capitalising on, some of the key features to look out for with smart metering like that offered by Astralweb are: robust SMS communication, remote control of your device and superb online data analysis. And, it is the analysis that’s key (not just the data) because it’s from the analysis that savings can be garnered.

The Carbon Trust estimates businesses are wasting 7 million pounds a day on poor energy efficiency - that’s a lot of room for improvement for us all to become more energy efficient, more profitable and smarter!

Click here to take your first step to saving energy and saving money!!