Facilio expands its smart buildings offerings to optimize energy usage in food retail

Facilio expands its smart buildings offerings to optimize energy usage in food retail

Dubai: Facilio, the New-York headquartered proptech company with operations in Dubai, has rolled out a scalable, cloud-based Connected Refrigeration solution for multi-site food retailers including groceries, convenience stores and supermarkets.

Facilio’s powerful, hardware-agnostic, cloud-based supervisory platform has added capabilities around monitoring and optimization of refrigeration assets that makes remote-monitoring of multi-site retail stores possible. It presents a sure-shot way for grocery, convenience store and supermarket operators to reduce energy and maintenance costs, service calls, and refrigerant leak rates.

"In the retail industry, the front-end technology has seen incredible advances, while the back-end store operations have not evolved or changed much. There is still heavy reliance on store-level siloed systems. It’s an area ripe for transformation.

Our Connected Refrigeration solution helps retailers take control of their refrigeration systems, providing real-time visibility into the performance of their assets across all sites, enabling them to make informed decisions and reduce costs," says Raj Subramanian, Co-Founder & CPO at Facilio.

The Retail, Food Service, and Grocery sectors spend over $41 billion on energy annually, representing 14 billion square feet of floor space in the U.S alone. Food cooling and refrigeration account for over 50 percent of the store’s energy costs. With Facilio’s Connected Refrigeration solution, food retailers have