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New system helping Intermountain Health monitor energy usage
Intermountain Health has a new Remote Operations Center that tracks and monitors energy use at 18 of its facilities in Utah and Idaho. The system uses billions of data points that keep track of energy use and spots inefficiencies in systems that work poorly. One example provided by the company involved a glitch discovered in a boiler that was rapidly turning on and off to maintain the right temperature at a medical clinic, which led to a waste of energy and a catastrophic failure to the boiler. But maintenance crews were able to spot the problem in time and fix the issue. “To keep a ...