Industrial/Oil & Gas

• Remote monitoring is difficult - It's often not possible to monitor industrial equipment with sensors that require ethernet connections.
• You can now economically monitor that "always on" equipment.
• Use as either primary or backup monitoring for critical equipment. Super critical equipment can always use a backup monitor.

• Pipeline compressors

Property Owners

• Unexpected, premature replacement expenses can kill profitability for building owners.

• Avoid run-out/run-down problems (blog article)
• Protect your assets and ensure proper tenant maintenance
• Account for equipment over-use (blog article)
• Select the appropriate HVAC equipment to optimize energy efficiency
• Keep tenants happy and avoid embarrassing and untimely outages
• Enhance your green image

Building Tenants

• Reduce utility costs (blog article)
• Greater insight into whether your energy usage is appropriate
• Catch problems before they affect your business (blog article)
• Reduce over-use charges
• Improve your employees' and customers' comfort
• Get more for your money
• Enhance your green image

Verticals

• Information Technology - Data centers, data rooms, data closets
• Oil & Gas, Energy Production
• Farm Tech/Ag Tech
• Industrial, Manufacturing
• Energy Consultants
• Building retro-commissioning
• Hospitality - Restaurants, Hotels
• Commercial Real Estate - Exec office bldgs, strip malls, stand alone buildings
• Banking - Remote branches
• Government - Office buildings, data centers, tolling authorities/plazas
• Education - Schools, university buildings, heating/cooling plants

Farm, Ranch, Ag Tech

• Pump monitoring - Know when irrigation wells, powered by electricity or natural gas, stop running.
Irrigation motors can stop during growing season losing valuable time when the crops need it most.

Virtjoule non-operation alerts can alert you by text, phone, or email as soon as a pump quits for any reason.

Natural gas motors


Electric motors


Center pivot sprinklers malfunction or get stuck, shutting down the motor automatically. Irrigation time is lost until the farmer discovers the sprinkler has stopped.


Lightning and power surges can trip electric well motors. Most will not come back on by themselves and even the smallest surge in electricity can cut out a motor.


Critical livestock tanks are often maintained by small pumps and can stop running for a variety of reasons.

Energy Analysts

• Information is everything - There are many companies, large and small, that specialize in energy audits and building re-commissioning. These are intensive studies where good information is invaluable.

• Pre-existing conditions - Any energy audit will start by collecting as much existing information as possible. Virtjoule can quickly, economically, and temporarily gather critical runtime and energy information for an energy audit.

• Pre-existing conditions - Unlike normal usb loggers, Virtjoule's information is nearly real time. Recommissioning studies don't have to wait weeks until the loggers come back to start drawing conclusions.

• Pre-existing conditions - Unlike normal loggers, Virtjoule can be left on for longer periods of time. Equipment can and does operate differently through the seasons. An economizer problem that shows up in spring may not be apparent in the summer. Normal studies can miss critical issues by not monitoring long enough. Because Virtjoule's information is sent out over the cellular network, analysts can watch important behavior throughout the year without returning to the site multiple times.

• No communications link with client or building is necessary -  Virtjoule is a solution partner with Verizon. Each device is its own cellular line and does not depend on the client or building ethernet connection.

• Savings that stick - These days, energy auditors and building re-commissioning specialists are being driven to substantiate the savings claims they make and to show that those savings are captured year after year for HVAC equipment and lighting. The only way that can be done is by monitoring equipment for runtime and electrical loads for usage. Virtjoule provides a very economical way to monitor both small and large equipment without a huge capital budget and project to retrofit monitoring capabilities.

Banking

• Multi-location businesses are hard to manage - It's difficult for maintenance staff or service to be everywhere at the same time. Often times complaints don't come until the situation is bad.


• What if you could head off the complaints? - Virtjoule's monitoring system can detect problems before they become complaints.

• Multi-location businesses have to get the most out of each location -  It's important to know each branch location is operating efficiently. Changed thermostats and poor programming can leave many branches operating 24 hrs a day, wasting money and energy, even though they operate reduced hours.

Text alerts

Email alerts

Customizable voice alerts

Reports

"We have seen great benefit on another project and this has led to lower utility bills and reduced wear and tear on equipment."

Tom Newman, Director of Property Management, Freeman Myre
Full service real estate brokerage and property management, Boulder, CO
Virtjoule is monitoring multiple executive office buildings .

"You called that one. Thanks for letting us know about the freezer failure."

- Scott Reid, Plant Manager
First LEED certified bowling alley in the U.S., Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn Bowl partners with and hosts one of the famous Blue Ribbon restaurants at this site.

"If it isn't running, I know it isn't costing me anything. Virtjoule helps me spot problem units."

Al Zuhars, Owner and CEO, AJ Gators
Virginia and North Carolina region sports bar and restaurant chain - Chesapeake, VA