Case Study
Plymouth University Saves £50,000 on Water Bill with HWM Data Loggers
PLYMOUTH UNIVERSITY SAVES £50,000 ON WATER BILL WITH HWM DATA LOGGERS Plymouth University has saved more than £50,000 in water consumption costs with the help of half-hourly data loggers from water and asset monitoring specialist HWM. “Half-hourly meters have brought us a whole new management regime, where we can interrogate consumption in a lot more depth,” said Paul Lumley, the University’s Energy and Environmental Manager. “When you really want to interrogate how a building uses water, you need to have half- hourly data. It’s impossible to do otherwise.” Since 2011, HWM has installed COMLog GPRS data loggers at 21 sites in and around the campus. The loggers transmit data twice a day to HWM’s web-hosted server, Datagate, which then distributes data to South WestWater’s commercial divisio