Case Study: MESFRUITS reduces cold room energy costs with Wattsense

MESFRUITS optimizes the energy consumption of its cold rooms with Eqinov and Wattsense

The customer, MESFRUITS, an apple producer, faced the significant challenge of high energy costs from its 60 cold rooms, with consumption peaking during the summer. They worked with vendor Wattsense, whose connectivity solution was used within the DR’IVE Box developed by partner Eqinov, to explore optimizing and flexibilizing their energy consumption to reduce expenses.

Wattsense provided an easy-to-install Box that connected to the existing building systems via Modbus, requiring no material cost for MESFRUITS. This solution enabled Eqinov to remotely monitor and automatically flexibilize the chillers' electricity use to balance the grid, all while guaranteeing fruit quality. The implementation was successful, with the boxes becoming operational and automatically adjusting consumption, leading to MESFRUITS receiving an annual financial bonus for participating in the demand response program.

MESFRUITS

Gildas Guibert

Technical and R&D Manager