# Our Guide to Sub-Metering

- Link: https://imserv.com/blog/our-guide-to-sub-metering/
- Published: 2021-01-20T09:06:01+00:00

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Sub-metering
 is the perfect solution for businesses with energy efficiency at
the top of their agenda.

Are you a landlord, looking to gain greater insight into your tenants’ energy usage?
Or perhaps you’re an energy-conscious organisation, looking for a departmental breakdown
of your company’s energy usage?

IMSERV’s sub-metering solution gives you an even greater insight into your energy
data, helping you take the next step along your energy management journey.

**What is Sub-Metering?**

Sub-metering is the installation of additional meters alongside the main building
meter, in order to gather data from a specific area of a site or piece of equipment.
Sub-metering can help provide a better understanding of your business’ energy usage,
and identify areas where wastage may occur.  For example, a hospital with a sub-
metering strategy in place will be able to identify how much energy specific equipment
or machinery is using.  Using this insight, you may be able to make cost-effective
decisions – can that power-draining machine be turned off overnight or left on standby?

**Why Would I Need Sub-Metering?**

If you have one meter collecting energy data for a large space, it can be difficult
to understand which appliances may be using more energy than others.  For example,
in a University, where lighting and machinery are all major energy users, it can
be difficult to separate how much each function consumes and when, which can make
energy management more challenging.

**The Benefits of Sub-Metering**

Sub-metering provides a clear insight into energy usage for individual tenants, 
departments or pieces of equipment, and allows for better understanding of what 
is influencing poor energy performance and where.

Sub-metering can also help you:

 * Gain more detail in your energy profile, enabling you to identify energy-hungry
   processes and focus on reviewing areas of high usage
 * Eliminate the need for estimates by recording actual energy usage, making for
   more accurate billing from your Supplier
 * Become better-informed to make decisions that will help optimise your energy 
   strategy
 * Meet regulatory obligations (e.g., ESOS)
 * Clearly see the impact of operational changes

**Data and Visualisation**

IMSERV believes that quality data visualisation is just as important as the data
itself.  We’re here to help you make better use of your energy data – that’s why
we continuously invest in our [data visualisation platforms](https://imserv.com/visualisation/).

When utilising our sub-metering solution, IMSERV will also provide you with access
to our data visualisation platform, giving you full transparency of your energy 
data.  You will be able to schedule your data on a regular basis, with options of
daily, weekly, monthly or just one-off views, enabling you to make comparisons over
time across your entire portfolio, or even to aid in bill verification.

Our visualisation platform  also ensures that  all your data will be kept in a secure
location meaning only you will have access to it. If you have water or gas sub-meters,
speak to us about our logging solutions and how we can give you in-depth insight
into all your energy data.

For more information on sub-metering or to take the next step on your energy management
journey, get in touch on 01908 696000 | [contactus@imserv.com](https://imserv.com/blog/our-guide-to-sub-metering/contactus@imserv.com)