GridPoint Case Studies National Movie Theater Chain Achieves Significant Energy Savings with IoT

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National Movie Theater Chain Achieves Significant Energy Savings with IoT

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Technology Category	Sensors - Environmental Sensors Sensors - Humidity Sensors
Applicable Industries	Buildings Utilities
Applicable Functions	Facility Management Maintenance
Use Cases	Demand Planning & Forecasting Water Utility Management
Services	System Integration
Challenge	A national movie theater chain with several hundred locations across the US faced unique energy use challenges due to the nature of their business model. The theaters operate with large square footage, offer showtimes from morning to midnight, and have multiple screens in operation simultaneously. The chain was tasked with maintaining a comfortable environment across multiple rooms in large buildings while balancing energy and facility costs. The brand had also acquired new locations that had no HVAC control systems, leading to severe humidity issues, uncomfortable temperatures, and additional facility maintenance costs. The theater chain sought a single turnkey solution across its locations that could provide detailed information on theater operations and insights into their HVAC issues and site energy consumption. They needed to reduce energy costs, standardize HVAC control systems, and correct uncomfortable humidity levels without a major capital investment. Read More
About Customer	The customer is a national movie theater chain with several hundred locations throughout the US. The chain serves millions of customers and aims to provide a best-in-class movie-going experience for its attendees in every location. The theaters operate with large square footage, offer showtimes from morning to midnight, and have multiple screens in operation simultaneously. The chain was tasked with maintaining a comfortable environment across multiple rooms in large buildings while balancing energy and facility costs. The brand had also acquired new locations that had no HVAC control systems, leading to severe humidity issues, uncomfortable temperatures, and additional facility maintenance costs. Read More
Solution	GridPoint’s Energy Management as a Service (EMaaS) offering provided the brand with the flexibility to avoid a large upfront capital and the option to take on the project as a monthly operational expense. EMaaS combines installation, hardware, software, and services into one monthly fee that is typically funded by the energy savings generated. GridPoint installed HVAC controls and humidity sensors across the initial set of theaters and implemented a strategy to tackle the humidity challenges. GridPoint’s Energy Advisory team was also able to identify that exhaust from the movie projectors was a large contributor to the high humidity levels. The humidity data GridPoint collected helped validate the necessary facility updates needed to correct this design flaw. GridPoint also successfully integrated HVAC control schedules with showtime data to automatically sync their schedules and prevent energy waste. GridPoint enrolled several theater sites in demand response programs to manage peak energy costs while supporting grid stability. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Sensors - Environmental Sensors

Sensors - Humidity Sensors

Applicable Industries

Buildings

Utilities

Applicable Functions

Facility Management

Maintenance

Use Cases

Demand Planning & Forecasting

Water Utility Management

Services

System Integration

Challenge

A national movie theater chain with several hundred locations across the US faced unique energy use challenges due to the nature of their business model. The theaters operate with large square footage, offer showtimes from morning to midnight, and have multiple screens in operation simultaneously. The chain was tasked with maintaining a comfortable environment across multiple rooms in large buildings while balancing energy and facility costs. The brand had also acquired new locations that had no HVAC control systems, leading to severe humidity issues, uncomfortable temperatures, and additional facility maintenance costs. The theater chain sought a single turnkey solution across its locations that could provide detailed information on theater operations and insights into their HVAC issues and site energy consumption. They needed to reduce energy costs, standardize HVAC control systems, and correct uncomfortable humidity levels without a major capital investment.

About Customer

The customer is a national movie theater chain with several hundred locations throughout the US. The chain serves millions of customers and aims to provide a best-in-class movie-going experience for its attendees in every location. The theaters operate with large square footage, offer showtimes from morning to midnight, and have multiple screens in operation simultaneously. The chain was tasked with maintaining a comfortable environment across multiple rooms in large buildings while balancing energy and facility costs. The brand had also acquired new locations that had no HVAC control systems, leading to severe humidity issues, uncomfortable temperatures, and additional facility maintenance costs.

Solution

GridPoint’s Energy Management as a Service (EMaaS) offering provided the brand with the flexibility to avoid a large upfront capital and the option to take on the project as a monthly operational expense. EMaaS combines installation, hardware, software, and services into one monthly fee that is typically funded by the energy savings generated. GridPoint installed HVAC controls and humidity sensors across the initial set of theaters and implemented a strategy to tackle the humidity challenges. GridPoint’s Energy Advisory team was also able to identify that exhaust from the movie projectors was a large contributor to the high humidity levels. The humidity data GridPoint collected helped validate the necessary facility updates needed to correct this design flaw. GridPoint also successfully integrated HVAC control schedules with showtime data to automatically sync their schedules and prevent energy waste. GridPoint enrolled several theater sites in demand response programs to manage peak energy costs while supporting grid stability.

Impact #1	Since first engaging with GridPoint in 2018, the theater chain has been able to monitor sites in real time, uncover inefficiencies and equipment issues, and control their sites to be more efficient. If a humidity concern arises in one of these sites, the facilities team can evaluate the HVAC issue remotely in real-time, and correct the humidity level quickly. The theater chain was able to deploy GridPoint’s platform with no capital costs, correct humidity issues, gain valuable facility insights and implement an energy reduction strategy that achieved over 17% savings year over year. The result is an ongoing earnings opportunity with virtually no effort on the brand’s part.

Impact #1

Since first engaging with GridPoint in 2018, the theater chain has been able to monitor sites in real time, uncover inefficiencies and equipment issues, and control their sites to be more efficient. If a humidity concern arises in one of these sites, the facilities team can evaluate the HVAC issue remotely in real-time, and correct the humidity level quickly. The theater chain was able to deploy GridPoint’s platform with no capital costs, correct humidity issues, gain valuable facility insights and implement an energy reduction strategy that achieved over 17% savings year over year. The result is an ongoing earnings opportunity with virtually no effort on the brand’s part.

Benefit #1	The theater chain has averaged 17.76% electrical savings
Benefit #2	24.1% gas savings
Benefit #3	The automated HVAC schedule strategy drastically reduced occupied mode usage by about 45%

Benefit #1

The theater chain has averaged 17.76% electrical savings

Benefit #2

24.1% gas savings

Benefit #3

The automated HVAC schedule strategy drastically reduced occupied mode usage by about 45%

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National Movie Theater Chain Achieves Significant Energy Savings with IoT

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