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Site Controls Releases Exceptions Dashboard for
Energy Management

New capability gives retail and restaurant chains unprecedented insight into
facility conditions, delivering maximum energy savings and customer comfort

AUSTIN, TX – September17, 2009 – Site Controls, today announced the availability of the Exceptions Dashboard™, a new capability within the Site-Command™ Data Center offering a higher level of operational intelligence for retailers, restaurants and banks.  The Exceptions Dashboard will enable companies to effectively control store-level energy expenses, provide consistent customer comfort across all locations and significantly reduce carbon emissions.

The Exceptions Dashboard leverages the real-time asset, energy and environmental data of the ASP-hosted Data Center to automatically prioritize locations within a chain based on site conditions, allowing energy managers and facility professionals to focus their efforts to achieve maximum impact.  In a traditional Energy Management System (EMS), each device and/or site generates its own set of alarms, which are then faxed to headquarters or logged via an alarm server.  This uncoordinated site-by-site approach can result in thousands of alarms each day, overwhelming facilities staff and making it impossible to identify critical issues affecting energy costs or customer comfort.  In contrast, the Site-Command system captures all pertinent site and equipment metrics in an ‘above-site’ ASP-hosted data center, where a sophisticated rules engine constantly examines HVAC, lighting, refrigeration, freezer and other asset data to categorize locations based on the number and severity of site exceptions.

“We come across retailers and restaurant operators every day who are ‘drowning in data’ as a result of an antiquated approach to alarm management,” said Dan Kubala, Vice President of Marketing for Site Controls.  “With the Exceptions Dashboard, we leverage the power of web-based technologies to automatically prioritize all the locations in your chain based on site conditions, so you can focus limited resources where they will have the most positive and significant impact.”

The Data Center release also includes the new Site-Command QuickView™, which provides a comprehensive overview of site conditions in a single webpage with one-click access to configuration and schedule data.  Temperature and device exceptions for each site are displayed using natural language messages, reducing guesswork and diagnostic time.  Combined with the Exceptions Dashboard, these tools enable energy and facilities professionals to quickly drill down from high-level site trends to identify specific equipment issues and root causes.  “The key challenge in building automation boils down to information management,” said Colin Bester, Chief Technology Officer of Site Controls. “Our customers are absolutely swamped with the day-to-day activities of running their businesses.  They need an energy management system that helps them quickly identify what issues need to be addressed immediately. There is an amazing wealth of information available in EMS systems, but if you can’t cost-effectively capture it and make sense of it to change your business, it’s worthless.”

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About Site Controls, LLC

Site Controls is the leading provider of enterprise-wide energy management and facilities intelligence solutions for chain retailers and branch banks. Site Controls’ Site-Command™ above-site energy management platform monitors and controls major energy-consuming devices such as HVAC, lighting, refrigeration, signage and more to drive down energy and maintenance costs. Site Controls energy management solutions incorporate energy efficiency, corporate social responsibility, comfort and controls, operational intelligence, and demand response services. By providing persistent real-time access, visibility and control over thousands of assets and sites, Site Controls helps chain retailers and branch banks create a compelling customer experience while simultaneously saving money, reducing emissions, and improving business efficiency. For more information about Site Controls, visit www.sitecontrols.com.

Contact:

Kellie Thomas
Site Controls
kthomas@sitecontrols.com
512.306.9400

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Building 2, Suite 200
Austin, Texas 78746