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Smart Cellar System by Beertech® UK

Reduce Annual Cellar Cooler Costs by 1/3 

BeerTech have been in business for over 20 years and have recently developed the Smart Cellar System, which saves around 1/3rd of cellar cooler costs annually.

The Smart Cellar System, is a plug and play control box installed into the main cellar chiller. This saves over 30% of the main cellar cooler costs by automatically switching off your main cellar chiller during non-trading hours (12pm-8am) and also between 4-7pm having recorded the duty cycle of that cooler during trading hours.
This is with the proviso that if the cellar temperature increases to 17 degrees, an internal probe detects this, bringing the main chiller back on. In this fashion, the beer in the keg can be maintained at the required 12 degrees. We have carried out extensive testing regards this, and have empirical evidence to back this up.
The principle behind this is that the beer in the keg increases in temperature at a much slower rate than the surrounding air temperature. This allows the cellar cooler to be switched off for extended periods of time whilst maintaining the correct beer temperature. The resultant savings are around one-third of electricity costs which is around £1,800.00 per year.
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We’ve now finished upgrading the system to add a Blue Tooth Facility. This allows an app. to be downloaded into which the size of the cooler and the cost of electricity is inputted. The system measures the duty cycle at any particular site and from that the savings can be worked out. This currently has to be read manually, from which a calculation can be done to work out the savings. However, the app. will be inputted with the electricity cost and cooler size when installing the system. When an engineer, area manager, tenant etc enter the cellar and connect to the control box, the savings information will automatically be worked out by the app. A button on the app can then be pressed to send the information to a pre-designated e-mail, possibly head office or the tenants own personal one. This can be done monthly or on an ongoing basis etc.

Smart Cellar Costs /Savings

One Off Unit Cost £1500 (exc. VAT.)

If one of the SmartCellar Boxes has been in use for 30 days and records the duty cycle of that cooler at 50%:

  • During the night you'd save 50% of 8 night time hours, so 4 hours a night x 30 days/120 hours.
  • During the peak time hours (4-7pm) you'd save 50% of 3 peak time hours, so 1.5 hours at peak time x 30 days/45 hours.
  • Monthly total saved 165 hours. Electricity costs @30p x 3kw = £0.90 per hour, saving 165 hours x £0.90 = £148 per month

A saving of up to £1,800 per year!

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If you would like to learn more about the Smart Cellar System and how much you can save through its use, please complete our enquiry form below and we’ll call you back to discuss your requirements.  

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