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EmeRed Return on Investment Case Study
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Project Scope
- Carry out all regulatory compliance testing remotely.
- Understand What, Where, When, for any fault condition.
- Wi-Fi is not an option for connectivity.
- Budget will not stretch to lighting replacements.
- Installation to be carried out by the inhouse electrical team.
- The system must not generate additional work for the office team.
Background
The client is a housing association that has grown by combining assets and resources from several
smaller housing providers. This type of growth results in a wide range of housing stock and asset schedules over a large geographical area, which brings challenges of monitoring, managing and maintaining their portfolio. They currently have more than 10,000 properties and have a plan to build nearly 2000 additional homes over coming years.
Estate Breakdown of Phase One
| Number of Buildings | 44 |
| Average Emergency Lights per Building (total number of emergency lights ÷ number of buildings) |
10.25 |
Existing Costs
The existing testing costs only take account the testing engineers time and
associated costs, however, no allowance has been made for the back-office team
costs.
| Monthly flick test per building | £ 36.00 |
| 6-month 60-minute duration test | £ 2.20 Average cost per fitting per site |
| Annual 3-hour duration tes | £ 3.25 Average cost per fitting per site |
EmeRed System Costs
| GSM Gateway Cost | £149.00 |
| EmeRed Cost with 5 Year Portal and Data Subscription | £94.70 |
| Aditional Portal Users | £0.00 |
| Additional Engineers | £0.00 |
EmeRed Installation Costs
Managed internally with the existing electrical team.
| Time to install an EmeRed | 15 – 20 minutes per fitting (average 1 building per day) |
| Time to install a Gateway | 30 minutes |
Manual Testing Figures
Calculate the manual testing costs for a 5-year period to align with the EmeRed system costs.
No allowance has been made for office staff
| Flick test (10 tests per fitting per annum) |
£ 79,200.00 (£36 per building x 44 properties x 10 tests per year x 5 years) |
| 60-minute duration test (1 test per fitting per annum) |
£ 4,961.00 (£2.20 60 minute test cost x 451 emergency lights x 1 test per year x 5 years) |
| 3-hour duration test (1 test per fitting per annum) |
£ 7,328.75 (£3.25 3 hour test cost x 451 emergency lights x 1 test per year x 5 years) |
| Total cost over 5 years | £ 91,489.75 |
EmeRed System Figures
| Total Cost of Gateways | £ 6,556.00 (1 per building) |
| Total Cost of EmeReds | £ 42,265.70 (1 per light) |
| Total system costs (For 5 years) | £ 49,265.70 |
Return on Investment
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Total savings over the 5 year period |
£ 42,224.05 |
| Return on Investment | 1.85 years (cost of EmeRed System ÷ 5 year manual testing cost) |
Conclusion
Significant savings are being realised by this client who is currently moving to phase 2 and including EmeRed into the new build specifications.
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