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Taronga Zoo

Automated a complex zoo environment

The Challenge

  • Our client, Taronga Zoo is committed to a shared future for wildlife, people through its environmental leadership.
  • As a world-leading conservation organisation it has committed to several ambitious sustainability targets around carbon emissions, electricity, water, and waste diversion
  • Taronga needed to link multiple independent monitoring and control systems to avoid significant manual data collection and analytics to achieve their goals

Avani's Solution

  • Integrated the myriad of pre-existing bespoke building systems, including lighting control, pumping systems, and utility metering to the Avani platform
  • Standardised access and visualisation of their data across two sites (Taronga Zoo, Sydney and Western Plains Zoo, Dubbo) streamlining manual processes and improving data quality
  • Automated reporting through data collection and analytics

Outcomes

  • Supported the ambitious Taronga sustainability strategy through visibility and enabling a targeted approach to reducing emissions
  • Enabled Taronga’s sustainability and asset management teams to achieve their sustainability goals by monitoring utility usage trends, setting alerts for over-consumption and validation of consumption against utility bills
  • Removed manual monitoring requirements by automating data collection from over 500 devices
  • Automated sustainability reporting such as onsite solar PV generation
  • Adopted a single interface for the monitoring and control of all building management systems