Zen Ecosystems and Encycle Corporation Working Together for Smarter Energy Consumption: Partnership Enhances Energy Management Offerings for Commercial Buildings

Swarm Logic® integration with Zen HQ adds intelligent energy
management features to further curb building energy usage and benefit
customer bottom lines

NEWPORT BEACH & SAN MARCOS, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Zen
Ecosystems and Encycle
today announced a partnership to bring Encycle’s Swarm Logic offering to
the Zen
HQ intelligent energy management platform. Zen HQ’s smart
thermostats will leverage Swarm Logic energy optimization technology,
which will further reduce customers’ electricity and maintenance costs
by synchronizing and streamlining the operation of rooftop air handling
units (RTUs) and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC)
equipment.

Zen HQ enables organizations to cut electricity costs through robust
controls for HVAC, demand response, lighting and energy consumption.
Swarm Logic brings cloud-based enhanced demand management capabilities
to the Zen HQ offering through additional control over power-hungry RTUs
at the site level; it establishes a wireless network among RTUs that
enables the units to communicate among themselves autonomously and
efficiently respond to demand by spreading energy consumption more
logically among individual units. Swarm Logic also measures the power
consumption of each RTU, providing the intelligence needed to
proactively pinpoint inefficiencies and allow building managers to cut
maintenance costs and extend the life of building equipment.

The combined Zen HQ and Encycle solution set has been deployed thus far
with two Zen HQ customers, National Stores and WSS, California-based
retailers with a national presence. National Stores and WSS have already
realized a 15-20 percent reduction in peak demand charges, on top of the
15-25 percent energy savings achieved by Zen HQ alone, demonstrating the
synergy of the two technologies.

“Swarm Logic is a perfect cloud-based energy management complement to
the Zen HQ offering,” said Robert Chiste, President and CEO, Encycle.
“Integrating Zen HQ’s smart thermostats with our elegant cloud-based
EASE™ (Energy as a Service by Encycle™) solution provides Zen HQ
customers additional demand management benefits with ‘set and forget’
convenience that can help bring annual energy costs down 15-25 percent.
In addition, there’s no need to install additional equipment on site.
Energy saving has never been this easy or effective.”

Additional features of Zen HQ include:

• An integrated platform to view, control and schedule heating, cooling,
  lighting, and energy usage across single or multiple sites.
• Partial or full lockout controls that prevent on-site deviations from
  schedules.
• Demand response capabilities through OpenADR and utility
  certifications.

“Zen HQ has proven itself as a provider of unprecedented energy control
and ROI for businesses of all sizes and footprints,” said James McPhail,
CEO, Zen Ecosystems. “Zen’s success is largely due to our relentless
focus on simplicity. By integrating Swarm Logic technology without
disrupting customers, they’re able to further benefit from this ‘better
together’ relationship that delivers even greater energy management
features, and ultimately, cost savings.”

About Zen Ecosystems

Zen Ecosystems (Zen) provides intelligent energy management solutions to
businesses and consumers. Zen HQ is an energy management system designed
for the unique needs of businesses and utilities to provide insights and
control over multisite commercial energy usage while delivering the
fastest payback in the market. The Zen Thermostat is a beautiful, simple
connected device for home and business that also enables multi system
operators to enhance the customer experience. Learn more at http://zenecosystems.com/

About Encycle

Encycle Corp. is focused on helping commercial and industrial customers
achieve dramatic improvements in the efficiency of their heating,
ventilation and air conditioning systems. The company’s multi-patented
Swarm Logic® energy management technology is at the heart of the
company’s solution set, leveraging the elegant simplicity of honey
bee-inspired biomimicry to establish a wireless network among HVAC
rooftop units (RTUs) that enables them to communicate among themselves
autonomously.

A long and growing list of the world’s most-respected and sustainable
companies depend on Swarm Logic to maximize energy efficiency, cut
electricity costs, participate in demand response programs, reduce
carbon emissions and reduce HVAC maintenance costs. Companies using the
technology have reduced HVAC electricity costs by 15-25%, often with an
ROI that’s less than a year. Encycle offices are in Toronto (Canada),
San Marcos (California), and Taunton (UK). For more information, visit Encycle.com
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Contacts

Antenna Group for Zen Ecosystems
Michael Salmassian, +1-415-977-1919
[email protected]
or
Juhl
Communications for Encycle
Ginger Juhl, +1-720-323-6560
[email protected]