Integration, centralisation and continuous optimisation

The complexity that characterises the operations of food retail organisations requires an integrated and centralised approach to effectively manage assets and processes.
Investing in control infrastructure digitalisation projects allows the creation of interconnected and secure systems for complete management of all functional areas of stores (refrigeration, HVAC, lighting, ...), providing stakeholders with easily usable data for continuous improvement of site performance and system management processes. 

Total Store is a complete “equipment-to-cloud” control and monitoring solution for centralised store management, made available by CAREL to support its customers and partners on the front line in improving the following KPIs:

Food quality

Energy saving

Alarm reduction and fault prevention

Refrigeration systems, just like air conditioning and lighting systems, are often not fully optimised and can be complex to manage.

With Total Store multi-level infrastructure based on CAREL technology that acquires and centralises data from the field, inefficiencies can be identified and prioritised across the entire store network, with the aim of implementing targeted actions to improve performance.

In particular, RED Optimise, the multi-site supervisory platform for retail applications, reduces the complexity of the information received from the connected devices, in order to:

• Provide an integrated overview of connected store performance

• Highlight the stores with the most critical issues

• Compare different technologies used in the field

• Evaluate future investment strategies

Site Performance Optimisation, the CAREL’s new optimisation service, has been designed with the aim of fully exploiting the potential of this information.
Based on its proven application experience, CAREL can support customers directly in identifying, implementing (in most cases remotely via RED Optimise) and measuring optimisation actions that bring tangible results.

The RED Optimise dashboards can be used to accurately evaluate the benefits of the Site Performance Optimisation service, comparing the store’s performance before and after the optimisation actions:

• Control performance (% in-range control and % defrost)

• Energy consumption divided by type of system (REF, HVAC, LIGHTING, …)

• Less alarms (and consequently less field service requests)

Find out how the implementation of Total Store across 576 stores helped MEGA IMAGE, a Romanian retailer and part of the Ahold Delhaize group, reduce emissions by 6.39 kilotonnes of CO2 and save € 5.3 million annually.

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Total Store is based on the wide range of CAREL control solutions, which are combined according to the customer’s needs to create an integrated management system that works in synergy to guarantee the highest levels of efficiency.

A complete offering for all store areas:

• REFRIGERATION: Complete range of control solutions for remote cabinets, cold rooms, compressor racks, condensing units and stand-alone units

• HVAC: Centralised management of underfloor heating systems, heat recovery units and air conditioning systems. With special attention to indoor air quality, using sensors that can measure the most important parameters that determine air quality

• LIGHTING: Intelligent zone control of lighting fixtures for all outdoor and indoor areas

• ENERGY METERING: Reading and monitoring of electrical parameters and power consumption of all connected systems

The advanced algorithms used by the control solutions, appropriately integrated into local supervisory and monitoring architectures, such as the CAREL boss family, allow retailers to enable energy saving functions that are essential for optimising store energy performance, as well as complying with the European regulatory framework, including the EPBD, the main legal instrument to bring about the decarbonisation of buildings.

With a one-stop-shop approach, CAREL offers t-Store Panel: the plug & play and ready-to-use electrical panel solution that comprises all the hardware components of the Total Store system.
The modular architecture of the electrical panel guarantees maximum design flexibility, allowing the management of different store areas to be grouped together.
Premium components and detailed functional tests before delivery guarantee the high reliability of the solution.