Case Study: Callaway Gardens and Resort cuts energy costs and improves response times with Vykon by Tridium

Callaway Gardens, Resort, Preserve uses Vykon by Tridium to drastically cut costs while improving customer satisfaction

Callaway: Gardens, Resort, and Preserve, a large resort and garden retreat, faced significant challenges managing its sprawling, city-like campus. Their engineering staff was inefficient, spending excessive time responding to service calls across dozens of disparate automation systems. They also needed to integrate systems to implement a sophisticated energy demand-limiting program and drastically cut their several-million-dollar annual energy expense. To address this, they turned to vendor Tridium and its Vykon technology.

Tridium’s Vykon solution integrated all of the resort's unique systems into a unified, web-based network. This allowed for real-time monitoring and control, automated demand-limiting that included creative strategies like managing golf cart charging, and the delegation of basic tasks to administrative staff. The results were substantial: Callaway saved over half a million dollars annually, reduced its peak energy demand by over 30%, saw a payback on its investment in less than a year, and dramatically improved operational efficiency and response times.

Callaway Gardens and Resort

Cliff Strickland

Engineering Manager, Mechanical