How Restaurants Can Benefit from IoT-Enabled Energy Management

For a restaurant company, the cost of heating and cooling buildings and powering kitchen equipment represents three to five percent of total operating expenditure. In a competitive industry with razor-thin margins, even a slight improvement in efficiency can make a significant difference, especially for large operators overseeing hundreds and thousands of facilities. The trouble is, restaurant managers have traditionally struggled to gain insight into energy usage. They know that aging freezers, ovens and fryers might break down at any time, but they can’t anticipate when to do a maintenance check. Similarly, they know that they spend more than necessary on heating and air conditioning, but they can’t identify and address specific sources of waste.

In a competitive industry with razor-thin margins, even a slight improvement in efficiency can make a significant difference.

That is changing, as restaurants apply Internet of Things (IoT) and smart building capabilities to…